How can I quickly set up tftp on CentOS?
I got a note from Dave, asking how he could set up tftp quickly on CentOS (His happens to be 5.3, but this process should be pretty much the same on a handful of versions and distros), and get a…
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linuxToolsGeneral
Cool bash completion trick…
Here’s a cool trick for you folks… If you regularly ssh to a set of servers in your server farm, but don’t like having to type out the full hostname on the command line (or can’t remember all the ip…
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Why aren’t my files listed in order?
A friend of mine was looking for a file using Nautilus while logged in as root on a SLE server. He was looking for a particular file that started with a capital “S”, and simply could not seem to find…
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What ever happened to unix2dos in SLES?
Why did they take unix2dos away from the SLES distribution and all standard (read: supported) repositories? Honestly, I don’t know. I use it all the time. I’m pretty sure it used to be included in SLES, and it’s still in…
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I may be forced to revert (because of iFolder) to Opensuse 11.0!
…and I’m not happy about it. Oh, its not really Suse’s fault directly. Or Opensuse’s fault specifically. In fact it is a combination of faults, including my own. But mostly, it is Novell’s fault. You see, I cannot live without…
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How do I set up iFolder3.6 on SLES10?
Here is my version of a “cheat-sheet” for installing iFolder3.6 on SLES10sp2 (It is based on — and is almost the same as — my earlier cheat-sheet based on iFolder3.6 on Opensuse10.3, with minor differences). This cheat-sheet kinda’ leaves you…
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How do I migrate iFolder 3.6 to a new SLES 10 server?
Today’s question comes from Stan Chelchowski. Here’s the essential part of what he wrote: “How do you migrate open source iFolder server and corresponding iFolders to new hardware? Both are running SLES10. Can this all be done by copying directories between…
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How do I add NCP trustee assignments at a command prompt?
Ever since my post about backing up and restoring NCP trustee assignments, I’ve had quite a few hits on this blog from Internet searches about similar topics. Many times people seem to find this site while searching about managing trustee…
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How do I install packages in CentOS?
My good friend Dave is moving over to CentOS for his RedHat development (and maybe hosting, wink-wink) platform, and he asks what is the easiest way to add packages on this distro. Of course, for me, that’s a bit of…
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centOS, introductory, pup, yum
How can I migrate/export (or back up) trustees from an OES2 Linux ext3/ncp volume?
This question came to me from Steve: “…I am looking to migrate my data from an NSS/NCP volume to an ext3/NCP volume (temporarily) and then back to a ext3/NCP volume. Should I do it? I have a vendor software that…
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