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This basic (re-worded) question came in from Jeff: “Why won’t my remote filesystem mount unmount when I try the umount command?” It’s very true: If you try to umount (unmount) a filesystem that is currently being accessed, it will not…
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Recently I came out of the 1990’s, and moved to an IBM laptop that does not have a serial port… Gasp! Of course, this is not a big deal to alot of people, but I’m a server guy. I do…
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Believe it or not, there are valid reasons why you might want to disable the firewall service on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). For instance, avoiding NCP time-outs on client connections for an OES/SLES server. If you just want…
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This article is written in a story-like retrospective fashion. (Update, 20100128, morning: Now with a happy ending! See below…) It’s a chain of events that took me from a happy Openfiler user, to and extremely angry Openfiler user, to a…
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This question came in from Steve in a comment: “…I am looking for a way to run the “rug lu” command and have it dump the output my local machine to look over and see what updates I have ahead…
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…module compilation process. Seriously, folks. I know there are others of you out there, like me, who upgraded to Opensuse 11.2 (the latest at the time of this writing), without concern that VMware Server 2.0.2 (also the latest at this…
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Happy Holidays to all my readers, customers, family, and friends (and even enemies for that matter), from your Linux guy at YourLinuxGuy.com. And yes, I mean holiday*s*, as in plural. I’m not saying that because I don’t want to say…
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(This article was updated for technical accuracy, and tested, 20100109. I’ve been chasing packages, across URLs, across the ‘Net… Ugh… ) My previous iFolder-related cheat-sheets here on this blog have been reasonably popular (see the ifolder3 category for reference). I…
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UPDATE, early/mid 2010: The majority of this post is mostly useless, except for history’s sake. It was originally written before 11.2 even was released, and the process still works, but… The Opensuse crew and the community put together a nice…
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I run quite a few Opensuse (mostly 11.1 at the time of this writing) servers in what you might call “pseudo-production” mode. For some of those servers, and especially for my test lab servers, I like to have them as…
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