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If you have an iFolder 3.8 (and some previous versions) server, and you use the local database (instead of LDAP or what-not), then you may have run into a situation where you have to change a password for a regular…
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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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Here’s a fun one for you. I had a situation recently where the customer had some of his windows PCs properly being populated in his reverse DNS zone (in an AD-controlled environment), and some that were not. He asked me…
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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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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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This basic (re-worded) question came in from Jeff: “Why won’t my remote filesystem mount unmount when I try the umount command?” It’s very true: If you try to umount (unmount) a filesystem that is currently being accessed, it will not…
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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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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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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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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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