Easy webhosting on Opensuse…
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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Power-Outages, My Mother-In-Law, and FSCK…
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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How to add a second Apache2 instance to a SLES11 server?
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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Blackberry-sized copies of DVD chapters in AVI format…
If you: Have a Blackberry Have a computer running Linux (preferably a recent suse-based distro) Have a DVD player in that computer Need to make mini copies of individual chapters of any given DVD …then this post is for you. …
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FTP Server Service On Windows 7
In my day-to-day adventures as Your Linux Guy in a Windows World, I commonly find myself needing to transfer files between workstations of disparate environments (such as test labs, etc.). For instance, working in an semi-isolated lab of Windows 7…
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How to do LDAPS queries from Linux to Active Directory pt. 4
Sub-Title: “What if you don’t know the exact certificate subject of the AD server?” This is part 4 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; for background, please also see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part…
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How to do LDAPS queries from Linux to Active Directory
Post-publish follow-up: I have now turned this into a multi-part series with additional tips and tricks. Please see part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5. Active Directory (AD) is a fact of life. There, I said it. And…
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How do I quickly set up Tripwire on Opensuse?
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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How to install/configure eDirectory 8.8.5 on Opensuse
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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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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