Need to reboot a Novell server without all connected user know about it?
Type the following command on the server console:
set Disable Broadcast Notifications Process = ON
And reboot the server
down
restart server
or
reset server
If you need to turn on broadcast messages, type:
set Disable Broadcast Notifications Process = OFF
By default in Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 the first cronjob will run 15 minutes after the system boots. Therefore you never know when your hourly/daily/weekly/monthly jobs will run.
To change the time your daily cron will run, edit the file:
/etc/sysconfig/cron
and add or modify the following line:
DAILY_TIME=”"
to:
DAILY_TIME=”03:00″
We have a batch of new HP DC7900 desktops which we want to use with Zenworks 6.5 Imaging, but when booting PXE the nic is not detected. First we needed to know which nic was in the desktop, therefore boot using the Zenworks Imaging bootcd, when you enter the bash prompt type:
hwinfo –netcard
Look for ‘vendor’ and ‘device’. In the case of the DC7900 it’s Vendor ID is 0×8086 and Device
Edit the following file:
/etc/network/interfaces
And change
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
First, create a user in /etc/passwd:
useradd -d /path/to/home -m -c “John Doe” -p password jdoe
-d
The new user will be created using HOME_DIR as the value for the user’s login directory. The default is to append the LOGIN name to BASE_DIR and use that as the login directory name. The directory HOME_DIR does not have to exist but will not be created if it is missing.
-m
The user’s home directory will be