openSUSE forums tips
A few tips from posting to the openSUSE forums, learned from banging my head to the wall too often. They are at https://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php The forum software can be very slow at times taking...
View ArticleEject USB drives / eject command – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
I always thought than an umount /dev/sdX# for all partitions on /dev/sdX was enough for USB devices to be ejected, but there are three commands that (on most systems) actually power down USB drives (or...
View ArticleChromium/Chrome on opensuse Tumbleweed ARM notes
Somehow Firefox is available on ARM by default, but the crash recovery isn’t that awesome. On my list of things to try is Chrome or Chromium. These links should help me find out if this is possible at...
View ArticleOn my list of things to figure out: how to force fsck with opensuse...
Hopefully the below links will eventually get me further in figuring out how to force fsck with opensuse Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3. For now, I just reinstalled an SD card (my Mac didn’t support the...
View ArticleRebooting a Linux server unattended – twm’s blog
[WayBack] Rebooting a Linux server unattended – twm’s blog: /sbin/shutdown -r now Simple, but I keep forgetting where Linux has short/long command options and short/long verbs. –jeroen
View ArticleOpensuse Community Account Migration
Apparently, during my 15 month rectum cancer fight, I missed the one month window of migrating my opensuse account (because of the sale of opensuse from Microfocus to a German investment company named...
View ArticleTUMBLEWEED Ordering cycle at boot with nss-lookup: named fails to start...
I have seen this on one Raspberry Pi 3 system: named failing to start during a normal reboot. The solution is to manually rcnamed start as root after boot. From [Wayback] TUMBLEWEED Ordering cycle at...
View ArticleNeed to do some catch up on “Transactional Server” from Open Suse
Transactional Server to me smiles like Microsoft data warehouse era, so seeing it in an OpenSuSE Tumbleweed install made me wonder: huh, DBMS? So I likely need some catch up to do do on this:...
View ArticleWondering about the flavours of Tumbleweed ISO images
The Tumbleweed ISO images have many flavours, none yet covered in a comprehensive list. I found [WayBack] Get openSUSE , which only explains part of the puzzle: Installation: x86_64, i586, aarch64,...
View ArticleAfter the freenode to libera transition: openSUSE:IRC list – openSUSE Wiki
For my link archive: [Wayback] openSUSE:IRC list – openSUSE Wiki –jeroen
View Articlefirewalld: show interfaces with their zone details and show zones in use
A while ago openSUSE switched to firewalld as a fronte-end for iptables. Tumbleweed was first in 2018, so I wrote a reminder: On my research list: migrate from OpenSuSE SuSEfirewall2 to firewalld « The...
View Articleopensuse – How to install patterns and packages at the same time? – Unix &...
appending : to the resolvable allows you to match different types in one command it seems. zypper install java-1_6_0-openjdk-devel mercurial +pattern:devel_C_C++ +pattern:devel_java The italic are...
View ArticleInstall pihole-eberkund on openSUSE using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
I wonder what this provides compared to a pihole virtual appliance: [WayBack] Install pihole-eberkund on openSUSE using the Snap Store | Snapcraft with these repositories: [WayBack] pihole-eberkund...
View ArticleOpenSuSE tumbleweed switched to using /etc/sudoers.d which broke yast module...
Mid 2020, I re-installed a Raspberry Pi 2 box based on OpenSuSE Tumbleweed. To my susprise the yast2 module sudo could not write the configuration. It appeared that /etc/sudoers had become readonly and...
View ArticleHow do I restart sshd on my Unix system | StarNet Knowledge Database – PC X,...
[Wayback] How do I restart sshd on my Unix system | StarNet Knowledge Database – PC X, X Windows, X 11 & More – StarNet RedHat and Fedora Core Linux /sbin/service sshd restart Suse linux...
View ArticleHow to change system hostname in SUSE
The proper way is not manually changing /etc/hostname, but running this:: hostnamectl set-hostname host [Wayback] How to change system hostname in SUSE Background information in [Wayback] linux –...
View ArticleFor my link archive: ISO links to openSUSE Leap 15.5 – Get openSUSE
For my link archive some ISO links via [Wayback/Archive] openSUSE Leap 15.5 – Get openSUSE as I am steadily working my way back into IT and Software Development so I was anxious to see what has changed...
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