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 it: […]
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. […]
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> […]
Overall, I’m satisfied with the improvements in openSUSE 10.2 as compared to SuSE 10.0. A “.0” release is always a bit of a bumpy ride, and 10.2 has certainly cleaned up a lot of the problems and rough edges. I was disenchanted enough with 10.0 to load Fedora Core 6, but after a brief trial […]