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So you are all excited about the new Opensuse 11.1. Me too. So you want to do an in-place upgrade? Me too. Read on… Thanks to Benjamin over at: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/upgrading_opensuse_103/ …I adapted his Opensuse 10.3 to 11.0 in-place upgrade to…
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Happy Holidays to all my readers and participants of my little blog-experiment… Please peruse my archives while I take the holiday season off from blog entries… But, know that I am neck-deep in Opensuse11.1 right now…. Hmmm… Much blog-fodder… I…
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Yep, it’s a windows question again folks! A while back, I wrote a cute little batch script for a Win2k3 server that is a VMWare guest, that kept losing connectivity to the VMNetwork. The guest itself was up and fine,…
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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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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
Hi again gang… I just needed to whip together a quick-n-dirty cheatsheet for connecting to the internal Sybase database on a Zenworks 10 Configuration Management server. I work on many different servers (customers and whatnot) and this is one of…
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Okay, so sometimes I’m “Your Solaris Guy” as well as Your Linux Guy. Either way, I can sometimes be “your forgetful guy”. So, this post is pretty much a note to myself about one of those settings/commands I cannot seem…
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I usually don’t like to write these “about the site” blog posts, but believe it or not, I actually get questions about the blog itself, not just the content. So, I want to mention 2 things that have changed around…
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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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This question came to me from Rune (his question is edited for brevity): I’ve got a SLES 9.3 system where the users are using gzip to compress their daily online DB backups. It’s scripted, but basically it goes something like…
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