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It’s ZCM month here at youLinuxGuy.com / yourZcmGuy.com …! I got a question the other day from a customer, basically asking, “…what is the best way to deploy ZCM agent System Updates in a large, spread-out environment?” First, an aside. …
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Update, 20091023: Please see post http://yourlinuxguy.com/?p=314 for more updated information… back to the original post… I got this question the other day from Steve: I use “rug up” to update all of my SLES/OES2 servers and it works great when…
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I got this question from my good friend Matt the other day (edited for brevity): I was just thinking about taking an old box or two […] and use it as a thin client to connect to […] Microsoft Terminal…
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There are lots of ways to design and run your dhcp server and environment. Over the years, I’ve kinda’ fallen in-and-out of love with DHCP clustering; I’ve just come to the conclusion that it is more trouble than it’s worth. …
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I like the agedu utility. I recently found it while searching the ‘net, and I want to thank all involved with it (see the page for credits and info). This neat utility helps you get a general understanding of two…
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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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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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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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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 learned lots of cool stuff last week while I was out in Provo, Utah, at Novell’s ATT Live sessions. There was simply not enough time to attend all the class sessions I wanted (in the 4 days I was…
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