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Solution for opensuse 12.2: yast “System Services (Runlevel): Services” very...
Thanks to the wonderful people at the opensuse forums (especially Knurpht and wolfi323) for helping me out with opensuse 12.2: yast “System Services (Runlevel): Services” very slow: how to investigate....
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Windows: authenticated command-line download from IIS server wget: no, cURL:...
Had to download a bunch of stuff over the command-line from an IIS server that was using authentication. Not basic authentication, but NTLM authentication. wget kept failing, even wget 1.10 that...
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Interesting thread about various file systems: BTRFS, ReiserFS, ext4
Be sure to read the comments at Chris Mason deklariert BTRFS als Stable, und Suse setzt es als Default für / in der neuen SLES ein…. Some of the comments provide great insight in the practical use of:...
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running dig DNS under Windows
The dig (domain information groper) command under unix/Linux is a great way to help verify that a DNS host like BIND is working properly. A few of my servers are Linux, but most of my desktops usually...
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OpenSUSE: Getting to work the ruby script to login into dyndns.com...
So I remember for the next time: zypper install ruby zypper install ruby-devel zypper install gcc zypper install gcc-c++ If you don’t install all these, them the gem will fail with errors like this:...
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*nix: Cron shortcuts @daily, @weekly, @monthly, … (via: Cron and Crontab...
Even if you think you are familiar with something, it pays to keep your knowledge current. I’ve been always struggling with the crontab syntax. It’s flexible, but for most cases overly complex, for...
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Zenoss: Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management
Interesting stuff: Zenoss Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management. Stuff like monitoring NNTP, monitoring HTTP, monitoring DNS, etc. –jeroenFiled under: *nix, Linux, Monitoring, Power...
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NotePad++: Text Editor which shows \r\n (via: Stack Overflow)
I hadn’t monitored Notepad++ in a very long time, so I was glad that User Thomas Owens mentioned that it can show you the CR and LF codes: With Notepad++, you can show end-of-line characters. It shows...
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Time to upgrade some of my older OpenSuSE VMs from 12.3 to a more recent version
Last week, the final update for OpenSuSE 12.3 says it is time to upgrade: │Patch: openSUSE-2015-100 Kind: recommended Version: 1 │ │This announcement marks the end of the maintenance period for...
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*n*x: capturing http traffic
Below some links to get me started on capturing http traffic. Some tools mentioned in these links, with * marking the ones available on the distribution I use: tcpdump * with Manpage of TCPDUMP....
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HCL:Raspberry Pi – openSUSE
Interesting: HCL:Raspberry Pi – openSUSE.Filed under: *nix, *nix-tools, Hardware Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Raspberry Pi, SuSE Linux
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openSUSE 12.x: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown the system properly.”
Just noticed that in openSUSE 12.x, A plain halt will not shutdown the system properly. On my system, it would leave the screen as shown on the right: Only halt -p works, none of the other hints in the...
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Reminder to self: 3 months ago “all mine!: openSUSE 12.3 is out!”
Time to try out the 3 months old release and see how much got fixed in the mean time. –jeroen via: all mine!: openSUSE 12.3 is out!.Filed under: *nix, Linux, Power User, SuSE Linux
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Getting a fresh root hint file on SUSE 12.x
Wrote a small script that goes into my monthly crontab. It gets ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.cache into /var/lib/named/named.cache.new, and logs when you need to copy it over into...
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Installing SuSE 11.2 or higher: before the first reboot the CLI version of...
Since SuSE 11.2, when installing then the CLI version of YaST looks horrible on the first (Ctrl-Alt-F1) console before you do your first reboot. Workarounds: Try one of the other consoles, Reboot once....
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User Manual for Avira AntiVir Server | Unix and Avira AntiVir Professional |...
PDF User Manual for Avira AntiVir Server | Unix and Avira AntiVir Professional | Unix. It is not completely up to date (as most installations are now RPM based), but gives great background...
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Some notes on how VMware Workstation/Player “Easy Installs” SUSE Linux
When VMware Workstation/Player does an Easy Install of SUSE Linux (and most other Linuxes), it does this: mount a CD drive with the autoinst.iso image mount a floppy drive with the autoinst.flp image...
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Resolving base-conflicts installing samba on OpenSUSE 12.x
When installing samba on a “minimal” server openSUSE 12.x can give you a funny error that the install process conflicts with a “patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base-conflicts” package as for instance...
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openSUSE 12.x: disabling smbd CUPS warnings when you have Samba but not...
As Dave mentioned a couple of years ago in an article smbd_unable_to_connect_to_cups_server, even if you have printing disabled in Samba, you can get errors in /var/log/messages like these± May 5...
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revue: getting Tumbleweed on it.
Now that github stopped showing my README.rst as reStructuredText here is the htmlpreview link of the pandoc rendered reStructuredText: revue: getting Tumbleweed on it. It is about installing and...
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