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While working with a customer today, we were solving some silly problems that cropped up while patching his OES2sp1 Linux servers. Some nonsense about Mozilla dependencies on 64-bit servers (see Novell TID 7004278 for details on that). But that’s not…
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As a consultant in the Novell-related side of things, I have configured a handful of OES2 Linux servers to be Samba-aware for the end-users. But for some reason, I always forget one particular step. And I figured that if I…
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Backups are great. Yes, I’m that guy that loves backups. Of course everyone uses an off-line, off-site backup system like JungleDisk, right? Or if you’re lucky enough to have your own personal cloud, then you’ve got that covered from that…
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It’s still ZCM month here at yourLinuxGuy.com / yourZpmGuy.com …! And here’s a bonus third post for the month… When the 10.2.1 patch came down a couple weeks ago at the end of the work day, I launched the deployment…
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It’s still ZCM month here at youLinuxGuy.com / yourZcmGuy.com…. It’s funny – I had a post all ready to go for Monday of this week, but didn’t publish it. It was a little rant/gripe about some minor database corruption having…
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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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