Category: SuSE

  • Copying large number of files between two Unix/Linux/OSX Servers

    Here are some quick tip(s) for copying a ton of files between unixy machines really fast. You’re probably thinking “why not use rsync?”…..well rsync can be miserably slow if your source or destination cpu is underpowered. You can always do a rsync after these commands to make 100% certain that everything checks out, but try…

  • Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 3

    Well in Episode 3 of our saga Many goes bald (again) and (almost) drop kicks the server out the window. After going through the pain of installing 10.1 and updating everything I proceeded to upgrade to OpenSuSE 10.3. The upgrade went okay as far as the boot DVD was concerned (no errors during boot), but…

  • Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 2

    Okay, don’t laugh, but I’m really starting to believe in the “third time is the charm” saying. Episode 2 was going fine until last night when I left work. I had installed 10.1, skipped installing any of the XEN packages, updated 10.1, installed 10.3 and was in the process of letting it run over night…

  • Suse 10.1 to 10.3 upgrade Episode 1

    So I’ve been preparing a test server for the past couple of days, so that I can test the Suse upgrade path from 10.1 to 10.3. I’ve got a spare Dell 2650 machine with a PERC3/i card and two 37 GB scsi drives in raid-1 configuration. To get the test going I installed SuSE 10.1…

  • Getting Samba to work properly with SuSE’s Firewall…

    Here we are again and I have to sadly say…..yet another OS (which I also love) that does not do what it promises. I know that you can do some major iptables kungfu under linux through command line, but when SuSE/Novell tries to sell you Yast as a graphical admin interface they should atleast check…