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As you might have noted in my previous posts, I do not like to visit server consoles for upgrades. So I want to thank Novell for having outlined a handy little instruction sheet here: How to upgrade to SLES/SLED 11…
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As a sysadmin (probably like you), sometimes I need to whip up special-purpose mini-scripts to do simple monitoring tasks that I don’t want to bother our main monitoring system with… This is one of them… I needed to monitor a…
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This is just a simplified adaptation of a community post by author sakila here: http://www.novell.com/communities/node/9298/patching-and-upgrading-oes2-sp1-oes2-sp2 …all due credit (and thanks) to the author for putting that together!! Please read that doc first to get a feel for what I’m after…
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On May 4th of this year, we at Cavalier had a visit from a group of students from Lapeer County Intermediate School District, specializing in networking technology. They had come for a tour of our technology, and related discussions. Now…
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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 really wanted to get the LPI-3 certification (note the past tense). It really looked like fun; it’s got a whole bunch of hard-core stuff about OpenLDAP and such, which I love and I’m way in to. Unfortunately, a great…
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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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