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I have an Opensuse 12.1 workstation that I use as a script “toolbox”, out in the regular cubicle space where I work. Because it sits smack-dab in the middle of a DHCP-based environment — and the corporate policy is to…
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Following up my last post, “X11Forwarding Fails on Opensuse 12.1 with IPv6 Disabled“, there are a couple postfix items that seem to need to be cleaned up on all my servers. IPv4-Only If you get this error: Apr 10 18:35:53…
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I’m one of those people that still disables IPv6 on all my Linux boxes. And, I guess I’m being punished for it, since if you disable IPv6 on Opensuse, then X11Forwarding will no longer function in its default form. The…
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It looks like some people are working very hard out there to try and preserve iFolder for future versions of Opensuse. To those people (the NoFolder crew, Ravi Kumar, etc.), I’m indebted; I simply would be at a loss without…
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I got this question from reader Ren: “…I am looking for an article that assumes you have a web server running already on opensuse 11.3, and a friend asks you to host his web site for him as well and…
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A couple weeks ago, my mother-in-law (M.I.L.) — who runs Opensuse 11.3 on her desktop — had a power outage. After the power came on, she called me to describe a weird error she was getting during boot-up. And the…
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I recently got this question from reader Niyati: “Can you please guide for installing apache separately without disturbing the current version on sles.. if doing that risks the support issues.. Or any workaround to get the latest release running on…
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Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures, (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2) here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 11.3 to 11.4 (somehow I missed 11.2 to…
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One of the very first posts I wrote on this blog when I started in early 2007 is a tutorial on how to quickly set up Tripwire on “Suse Linux” (before they called it “Opensuse”). But the problem with that…
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UPDATE (post-publish), 20100806: Though this post was originally tested entirely on 32-bit Opensuse 11.1, thanks to the prompt by Philip (see comments below), I have set up and tested this config on 64-bit Opensuse 11.3 with the 64-bit eDirectory 8.8sp5. …
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