Opensuse 11.3 is out!
I’ll spare you all of what you can read all over the Internet about the specifics of the latest Opensuse 11.3 release (and there are some good ones, like All About Linux, and OStatic to name a couple) … And…
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linuxDistroSpecific
Remote Upgrade to SLES 11 SP1 Using Zypper
As you might have noted in my previous posts, I do not like to visit server consoles for upgrades. So I want to thank Novell for having outlined a handy little instruction sheet here: How to upgrade to SLES/SLED 11…
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How can I remotely upgrade from OES2-SP1 to OES2-SP2?
This is just a simplified adaptation of a community post by author sakila here: http://www.novell.com/communities/node/9298/patching-and-upgrading-oes2-sp1-oes2-sp2 …all due credit (and thanks) to the author for putting that together!! Please read that doc first to get a feel for what I’m after…
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How can I renew my Centos/Apache SSL certificate?
I got this question the other day from a Centos administrator: “The certwatch tool has been sending the me an email warning me that I need to renew the SSL Certificate. What do I do?” The email message read like…
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eDirectory Backup / Restore Cheat-Sheet
Here’s a quick cheat-sheet on how to do fast backup of your eDirectory tree from an OES Linux server. While we’re at it, we’ll do a quick restore of an object. First, let’s back it up! Let’s grab the whole…
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How to gather and send support info on a Suse system…
To help someone (like me, for instance) remotely diagnose your Suse system, sometimes you need to send him or her diagnostic info from that system. Fortunately, Suse has a toolset called “supportutils” to do just that. This article outlines one…
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How to configure a USB attached serial port on Linux
Recently I came out of the 1990’s, and moved to an IBM laptop that does not have a serial port… Gasp! Of course, this is not a big deal to alot of people, but I’m a server guy. I do…
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How can I disable the firewall on SLES?
Believe it or not, there are valid reasons why you might want to disable the firewall service on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). For instance, avoiding NCP time-outs on client connections for an OES/SLES server. If you just want…
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How I fixed my Openfiler 2.3 server, after updates broke it…
This article is written in a story-like retrospective fashion. (Update, 20100128, morning: Now with a happy ending! See below…) It’s a chain of events that took me from a happy Openfiler user, to and extremely angry Openfiler user, to a…
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Handy little “rug lu” commands
This question came in from Steve in a comment: “…I am looking for a way to run the “rug lu” command and have it dump the output my local machine to look over and see what updates I have ahead…
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