Braindumps of an IT Specialist

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 Continue reading

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″ Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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 Continue reading