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OpenSuSE Tumbleweed notes
After zypper dup (dist-upgrade) or zypper up (update) a zypper ps will list processes using deleted files (i.e. processes that likely need to be restarted). Some processes that can be restarted without...
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Aliases for tools removed from `net-tools` package – via: openSUSE Build Service
Since quite a few commands that you regularly see mentioned on the web have been removed from OpenSuSE net-tools, I’ve created a few bash aliases in /etc/bash.bashrc.local below. Note the original...
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HOWTO: Multirouting with Linux : Luke Cyca Dot Calm
Multihoming without BGP with home routers and Linux. Need to apply this on OpenSuSE one day: HOWTO: Multirouting with Linux : Luke Cyca Dot Calm. Basically it does Multirouting of Sessions using NAT,...
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moreutils: sponge
sponge, a great *nix tool part of moreutils: sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file Now need to figure out how to get it on Tumbleweed; maybe...
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bash – How can I convert tabs to spaces in every file of a directory? – Stack...
Kev: Try the command line tool expand. expand -t 4 input >output Chrono Kitsune: And for those systems that don’t use the GNU Core Utilities, you have a decent chance of expand being installed since...
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OpenSuSE Tumbleweed `zypper dist-upgrade`: `mt-st` versus `mt_st`
TL;DR: I’m not the only one being partially word-blind. I had the below while performing a zypper distribution upgrade on "openSUSE Tumbleweed (20160726) (x86_64)". revue:/etc # zypper dist-upgrade ......
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A bash script to btrfs snapshot details like disk sizes (requires btrfs quota...
One thing I’ve not figured out yet is this: How does enabling btrfs quotas impact the system? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange My gut feeling says it’s not much. But if someone knows: please chime in....
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Oddest OpenSuSE Tumbleweed installation screen colours ever…
Oddest OpenSuSE Tumbleweed installation screen colours ever… Source: Screenshot 2016-09-07 15.51.08.png Filed under: Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed
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Need help with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed `cd:/content: Invalid signature....
This succeeded: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/overview?distri=opensuse&version=Tumbleweed&build=20160901&groupid=1 installing the image from...
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TUMBLEWEED Poor performance in VMware Fusion can be a `search localdomain` issue
I figured this out, it turned out to be a DNS resolution issue. For some reason leaving ‘search localdomain’ in resolv.conf generates some slowness. I’m not sure if it’s because 127.0.0.1 isn’t mapped...
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OpenSuSE Tumbleweed ntp problem after snapshot 20160905 will be fixed in...
On some systems, after upgrading OpenSuSE Tumbleweed to 20160905 ntp stops working. TL;DR Pending the verification of snapshot 20160908 (not finished yet), if if you have updated to 20160905 or...
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Flush deferred messages in sendmail queue :: Stephan Paukner :: syslog
Be careful with setting the timeout of sendmail to zero when trying to flush the mail queue: sendmail -OTimeout.hoststatus=0m -q -v Reason: a lot of target systems do rate-limiting if you retry too...
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Converting sendmail .db files to text
If you want to inverse the work of newaliases, you can use makemap to convert them to text: makemap -u hash access.db This is quite handy to see if the newaliases indeed put all information into the db...
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Awesome vim cheat sheet for your consideration. Download #vimcheatsheet
Awesome vim cheat sheet for your consideration. Download http://vimcheatsheet.com You can either buy the poster (which is now at version 2.0), buy the digital PDF downloads (at version 2.0 too), get...
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Wish ttystudio was available for OpenSuSE and Mac OS X…
Really interesting stuff: ttystudio. It allows to record an apng or gif of a terminal session (so it should work on headless systems). Anyone knowing alternatives for OpenSuSE and Mac OS X? (Cockos...
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How To Patch and Protect Linux Kernel Zero Day Local Privilege Escalation...
There is a nasty (Dirty COW: CVE-2016-5195) Linux kernel bug with zero-day exploits floating around OpenSuSE updates will be available soon (likely this weekend); from the #openSUSE-factory IRC...
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OpenSuSE Tumbleweed: after installing from ISO, be sure to disable/remove the...
TL;DR: OpenSuSE Tumbleweed – after installing from ISO, be sure to disable/remove the ISO repo. A while ago I had a weird thing on my OpenSuSE Tumbleweed system while upgrading (yes, zypper...
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On OpenSuSE, when adding Apache vhosts with their own log files don’t forget...
Sometimes you forget one crucial step… When adding Apache vhosts on OpenSuSE and each vhost has it’s own set of log-files, then they will not be logrotated by default. So you have to edit the...
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OpenSuSE fix “piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: SMBus Host Controller not enabled!”
If you see this in journalctl after boot in a VM, then you likely want to disable piix4 smbus device detection: Jul 07 23:02:47 revue systemd-udevd[507]: maximum number (136) of children reached Jul 07...
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What runs logrotate in OpenSUSE 13.2?
Historically, on many systems, logrotate is being ran from a daily cron job. Many tutorials still presume that, for instance HowTo: The Ultimate Logrotate Command Tutorial with 10 Examples. I still...
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