Suse & OpenSuse : Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, How Tos and Troubleshooting

SUSE Studio : Create your own customized Linux OS

April 6, 2009 – 3:56 am

Recently Novell has unveiled a sneak preview of the alpha release of SUSE Studio at VMworld. In a nutshell, SUSE Studio is an innovative way to enable both standardization and customization of a Linux distribution. With SUSE Studio, you can customize and build your own personal distribution in as many ways you could possibly think [...]

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Short and quick tutorial for the command “find”

April 5, 2009 – 11:30 pm

We can learn about commands in Linux using the manpages, for example, to learn how to use the find command, we can just do # man 1 find However, this means we need to read the long manual and generally most of us are somewhat impatient.  We will give short and quick tutorials on the [...]

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How to reset forgotten root password in SuSE Enterprise Server

April 5, 2009 – 11:16 pm

We do sometimes forget our passwords and what more when we don’t login to that particular account regularly.  As good system administrators who automate most of the administrative tasks, we sometimes do not login to the root account often.  This is especially so for a highly reliable and robust SLES based system. Our earlier posting [...]

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Tripwire : Open Source Security Utility

April 4, 2009 – 6:10 am

In term of security, there are many basic security tools that you can add. Tripwire is one of the best file system monitoring tools around. In a nutshell, Tripwire helps to record information about important files (such as checksums) in a database. If anything changes in those files, Tripwire will catch the change when it [...]

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How to install OpenOffice.org in SLES from a SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop ISO file

March 30, 2009 – 7:41 pm

After installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11), there are some packages that may be required that’s not on the SLES 11 DVD but is available from the SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) DVD. One such example is OpenOffice.org. If you already have the SLED DVD, you can install from it by [...]

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