'SysAdmin' Category
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Jun292009
Alternating Tri-Boot for Linux Workstations
Alternating tri-boot hosts three operating systems on a PC workstation: the as-delivered Windows XP partition, and two Linux distributions which both mount the same /home partition.
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May012008
phpMyAdmin Installation, openSUSE 10.2
I installed the phpmyadmin package the other day using YaST and need to document some things:
Configuration area (config.inc.php file) ends up in /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyAdmin along with the rest of the installation.
Decided to use “cookie based authentication”; don’t think I need to remember the password.
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Feb152008
ATI Drivers for Radeon XPRESS 200, openSUSE 10.2
I didn’t have good results installing the ATI proprietary drivers in SUSE 10 using the ATI installer. The install itself was error-plagued and the X server was flakey afterwards. Thus when I upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 I chose not to install the proprietary drivers. For the past year I’ve been running with the [...]
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Jan062008
SMART smartd Configuration, openSUSE 10.2
Stumbled across smartd in YaST/System/System Services (runlevel) and turned it on. In addition to monitoring the long-term health trend of the disk, SMART also provides interesting real-time information about the hard drive: total hours, number of power cycles, current temperature, etc. I liked smartmontools so much that I also installed it on my [...]
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Dec122007
How To Disable ZENworks ZMD, openSUSE 10.2
The openSUSE 10.2 update repository that I was connected to stopped receiving updates from the mother ship in late November. I checked some other mirrors and found them to be in the same state. Only the main ftp.suse.com repository is current (as of this post). I could find no mention of this [...]
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Aug142007
NETDEV WATCHDOG transmit timed out, Realtek 8139
“NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out” error appears in openSUSE 10.2 Linux after updating the Realtek 8139 driver in Windows XP via Microsoft Update. Problem solved my rolling back the driver update.
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May092007
smbfs and cifs mounts, openSUSE 10.2
I’ve always used smbmount (or mount.smbfs) when I need to mount a shared Windows folder, but when I tried it today, no luck:
mount: unknown filesystem type ’smbfs’
Figured I just needed to install the package, but YaST came up empty. Searching on the web, I find that SMB file system support is not compiled into [...] -
Mar112007
crontab Configuration, openSUSE 10.2
At some point several years ago, SUSE and Redhat migrated to new multi-file and sub-directory approaches (search anacron) for their system crontabs. A helpful comment posted to my 2 March entry motivated me to learn how these are set up. Here’s how openSUSE 10.2 structures its cron configuration and provides the means of controlling [...]
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Mar072007
ZEN and YaST Updater Issues, openSUSE 10.2
Update, Dec 07: Have successfully removed ZENworks/zmd, solving all problems described herein. See post of 12-Dec-07.
My happiness with openSUSE 10.2 disappears when the Zen Updater runs. Every time it starts, does an update, restarts, etc, update-status (a compiled 64-bit executable, not a Perl or Python script) runs for 5-7 minutes with 99% cpu usage.
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Mar062007
Install PEAR Packages for AWS S3, openSUSE 10.2
Amazon S3 instructions require the following PEAR packages:HMAC, HTTP_Request, Net_Socket, and Net_URL. After my problems with PEAR in SuSE 10.0, I want good notes of what I did here:
All commands run as root.
pear remote-list
WARNING: channel “pear.php.net” has updated its protocols, use “channel-update pear.php.net” to update.
pear update-channels – successful.
pear info <pkg> – always responded [...]