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patching OES Linux with a YOU Server

Introduction

My findings here are that the differences between a YOU server for SLES9 i386 and that what is needed to be able to patch also an OES Linux server are very slight.

It is much easier than to set up an internal ZLM66 server to avoid the long download delays from the external patch server https://update.novell.com/data

There are some TID's around saying that one should only use the rug rcd red-carpet method.

I have tested quite a bit my "modified" YOU server, it works just exactly the same from a result perspective assuming that you don't need to patch server installed before OESSP2.


YOU Server directory structure

The directory structure look like this:

sbhome-brumme02:~ # cd /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt

sbhome-brumme02:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt # ll

total 0

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Nov 6 17:06 .

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 352 Feb 22 22:25 ..

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 6 17:06 i386

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Feb 22 22:25 media.1

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Sep 13 14:46 x86_64

sbhome-brumme02:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt #


under i386 you have the following directories:

sbhome-brumme02:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update # ll

total 0

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 360 Feb 9 00:12 .

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 6 17:06 ..

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 6 17:20 SUSE-CORE

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 6 17:06 SUSE-SLES

sbhome-brumme02:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update #


YOU Server modifications

here you can just create the following directory:

"Open-Enterprise-Server"

sbhome-brumme02:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update # ll

total 0

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 360 Feb 9 00:12 .

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 6 17:06 ..

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Feb 5 01:15 Open-Enterprise-Server

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 6 17:20 SUSE-CORE

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Nov 6 17:06 SUSE-SLES

sbhome-brumme02:/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update #


check out how it works for SUSE-SLES9 and SUSE-CORE, it is fairly simple


where to pull the OES patches from

the list of patches that need to be added under "Open Enterprise Server" can be obtained as follows:

I use an unpatched OESSP2 server with all Novell Products installed but not configured.

I have used the configure later option of the initial YaST installation and put in the latest rug, rcd and red-carpet patch with:

rug pin patch-11371

rcrcd restart

and

oes-linux:~ # rug pl |grep "oes "|grep "Open " 

 | oes        | patch-10817 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for SPident and oes-SPident

 | oes        | patch-10912 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for Novell NCP services

 | oes        | patch-10946 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for novell-ncpserv

 | oes        | patch-10986 | urgent     | Open Enterprise Server | Security update for xsp

 | oes        | patch-11148 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for yast2-novell-common

 | oes        | patch-11208 | urgent     | Open Enterprise Server | Security update for novell-ncp

 | oes        | patch-11218 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for Novell Cluster Services

 | oes        | patch-11240 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for Novell Cluster Services

 | oes        | patch-11247 | urgent     | Open Enterprise Server | Security update for mono

 | oes        | patch-11300 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for

 | oes        | patch-11305 | urgent     | Open Enterprise Server | Security update for LUM

 | oes        | patch-11312 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for novell-iprint-server

 | oes        | patch-11358 | urgent     | Open Enterprise Server | Security update for Linux kernel

 | oes        | patch-11365 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for NCP

 | oes        | patch-11372 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for LUM

 | oes        | patch-11408 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for novell-netstorage

 | oes        | patch-11423 | suggested  | Open Enterprise Server | Recommended update for Novell NCP

oes-linux:~ #

the files can be found under the red carpet cache directory of the OES Linux sample server correctly activated for the OES channel:

oes-linux:/var/cache/rcd/patch_data # ll

total 8177

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1176 Mar 6 18:14 .

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 344 Mar 6 17:19 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124563 Mar 6 18:13 SPident-0.9-42.30.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570609 Mar 6 17:19 libredcarpet-2.4.9-1.8.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162446 Mar 6 17:19 libredcarpet-python-2.4.9-1.8.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 317911 Mar 6 17:19 libredcarpet-tools-2.4.9-1.8.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 469439 Mar 6 18:13 novell-ncp-5.0.1-10.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 350062 Mar 6 18:13 novell-ncpserv-1.3-1.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 350794 Mar 6 18:14 novell-ncpserv-1.3-2.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173344 Mar 6 18:13 novell-ncpserv-nrm-1.3-1.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173266 Mar 6 18:14 novell-ncpserv-nrm-1.3-2.i386.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2438021 Mar 6 18:13 novell-nrm-1.3-9.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46238 Mar 6 18:13 oes-SPident-1.0.0-0.11.noarch.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2316 Mar 6 18:13 patch-10817

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6600 Mar 6 18:13 patch-10912

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3253 Mar 6 18:14 patch-10946

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12504 Mar 6 17:19 patch-11371

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261563 Mar 6 17:19 python-openssl-0.6-3.4.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1420536 Mar 6 17:19 rcd-2.4.9-1.14.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179296 Mar 6 17:19 rcd-devel-2.4.9-1.14.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 354809 Mar 6 17:19 rcd-modules-2.4.9-1.5.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62758 Mar 6 17:19 rcd-modules-devel-2.4.9-1.5.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 447237 Mar 6 17:19 red-carpet-2.4.9-1.15.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 319841 Mar 6 17:19 rug-2.4.9-1.13.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25214 Mar 6 17:19 xmlrpc-c-0.9.10-21.2.i586.rpm

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42720 Mar 6 17:19 xmlrpc-c-devel-0.9.10-21.2.i586.rpm

oes-linux:/var/cache/rcd/patch_data #

i have put the content of the directory after having installed the patches:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2316 Mar 6 18:13 patch-10817

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6600 Mar 6 18:13 patch-10912

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3253 Mar 6 18:14 patch-10946

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12504 Mar 6 17:19 patch-11371

to keep the list of files small for better clarity

hope it helps, any comment or suggestion is appreciated --SBarello 15:35, 6 March 2007 (MST)

Job Postings

If you know of any IT-related jobs that are open in your company, it would be cool if you could list them here. Since the people who read Cool Solutions regularly are up-to-date with Novell's technologies, seems like a pretty sweet pool of talent. Let's think of this as the cork-board in the lunchroom. (Unless you're trying to unload a free kitten...)

Novell Engineer (Charleston, SC) - TEKsystems is conducting a search for a Novell Engineer for our client, a Novell Platinum Partner. This position would be located in Charleston, SC. The position is a contract that will turn into a long term contract or a permanent position. We are looking for a CNE 6 with experience with ZenWorks. Pluses: Any experience with Dell equipment would be helpful. Also, the following certifications are a plus: MCNE, CNI. This position is open immediately. Please let me know if you or someone that you know would be interested in this opportunity. Required Skills: NOVELL,CNE, ZenWorks

      • Please contact hwallhan@teksystems.com or Heather at (864) 467-2207 if you are interested in this opportunity.

SR. NOVELL ENGINEER - GROUPWISE – Charleston, SC: TEKsystems is conducting a search for a Novell Engineer for our client, a Novell Platinum Partner. This position would be located in Charleston, SC. The position is a contract that will turn into a long term contract or a permanent position. We are looking for a CNE 7 with experience with Groupwise. This person will primarily deal with GroupWise Clustering. Pluses: Any experience with Dell equipment would be helpful. Also, the following certifications are a plus: MCNE, CNI. This position is open immediately. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply to this posting as soon as possible. Required Skills: NOVELL, CNE, GROUPWISE

      • Please contact hwallhan@teksystems.com or Heather at (864) 467-2207 if you are interested in this opportunity




PC Support Specialist (Gardena, CA) - Will be responsible for installing new pc’s and related hardware and software. Will investigate hardware and software problems and perform systems tests, repairs and upgrades. This is an intermediate position and usually requires comprehensive knowledge of PC hardware installation, repair and troubleshooting. Requires an AS in Computer Science or the equivalent with recent and related experience. HRWest@solutions.canon.com

Wiki organization

We've compiled quite a bit of information in Wiki format at my company, and I'm very open to contributing it to the cause. For starters, I created an RSYNC article that links to a document I created in lab testing back a couple of years ago. I think it would be great if someone with Wiki experience would make the front page a little less terse, and to encourage customer lab notes to be uploaded in an appropriate area. The RSYNC article is an example of how I think those things should be organized, but I'm open to any other suggestions.

Also, if the main page is not going to be editable, contributors need to know how to advise the content editors of things we should be doing to make the Wiki a bit more readable and usable. I think once the structure is in place, everyone will be able to easily follow it and contribute.

Qbncgar 12:53, 27 Jun 2005 (MDT)

GroupWise 7 and iManager

I would like to know when we can get a plug in for iManager for GroupWise. I don't want all the GroupWise Features but only a snapin that could create the mail box account when i create a user account.

This was announced at BrainShare 2006, but it won't be available until iManager v2.7. They were a bit vague on a date, but I wouldn't expect to see it before 2007. Personally, I think it's long overdue.

I absolutely agree ...it is LONG OVERDUE ! Quite frankly I'm very diappointed in Novell's lack of committment in transitioning to iManager.

Looking for SLES tidbits

I'm helping to move our department from Debian to SLES. But I ran into some questions.

  1. How can I get a SLES to use our existing (very large, 20,000+ user objects) Netware 6.5 campus tree, for authenication and account management?
  1. In case the above doesn't work, are there some easy steps for setting up a SLES as a eDirectory server?

Thanks,

--Iaindavidson 20:17, 30 Jul 2005 (MDT)

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The traffic growth on this website is 20-25 percent every quarter and it is today, the Number 1 Job Portal on traffic rank as per Alexa. So far it has a database of 4.5 million resumes and gets 8500-10000 registrations daily.

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Survey for which hardware driver we need most for linux

I want "CoolSolutions" to sponser another survey that tries to guage which hardware we need the driver for in linux desktop most?

Linux adoption is new use of the Linux computer operating system by homes, organizations, companies, and governments, while Linux migration refers to the change from using other operating systems to using Linux.

Many factors have resulted in increased use of Linux systems by traditional desktop users as well as operators of server systems, including desire for decreased operating system cost, increased security and support for open-source principles.[3] Several national governments have passed policies moving governmental computers to Linux from proprietary systems in the last few years.

import from forums?

Q
Is it possible to import knowledge/articles from forums like coolsolutions.com?
--Skipthompson81 13:23, 2 March 2006 (MST)

Answer: It should be. Both this wiki and Coolsolutions use the same CSS stylesheet, so you should be able to cut and paste the raw HTML from one and paste it into the wiki and it should format just fine. The only exception to this would be tags like <a>, which are not allowed by Novell Wiki and should be replaced with wikitext links like [http://www.mywebpage.com]

--Justin Grote - Network Architect - JWG Networks 17:20, 28 April 2006 (MDT)

Zenworks + Preferred DNS Server change

Greetings: I'm looking for a way to roll out "Preferred DNS Server" changes to all desktops for static ip addressed workstations since each workstaion has different class card I can not roll a registry change. Does any Zenmaster have any ideas?

Jeff

Hi Jeff Try this I founded it under cooltools Hammoud

Would you like to change DNS server configuration in Windows XP workstations in a fixed IP address environment using ZENworks? You can publish a ZENworks application with the next command:

CMD /K "netsh interface ip delete dns "Local Area Connection" <old_IP_of_DNS_server> || netsh interface ip add dns "Local Area Connection" <new_IP_of_DNS_server>" CMD /K "netsh interface ip delete dns "Local Area Connection" <old_IP_of_DNS_server> || netsh interface ip add dns "Local Area Connection" <new_IP_of_DNS_server>" Note in another codepages (i.e. Spanish) some special characters (accents) of native translation of "Local Area Connection" do not match. You can write them with EDIT of Console and save it. Next, you can open file with Windows NOTEPAD and Copy/Paste in ZENworks application properties. Also, note this is for an environment of workstations with only one NIC. If there are two or more NICs, they'll be named "Local Area Connection 2", "Local Area Connection 3", etc., and the script fails.

Error: 'novfsd restart' failed with error code 7

Running Open SuSe 10.1 on my Desktop. Installed Novell Client 1.2 for Linux After restart, getting the above error. Searched for solutions - one suggestion was: checked Kernel-source version = 2.6.16.13-4 checked Kernel-default version = 2.6.16.13-4 Both is the same.....

Busy searching on Novell, SuSe web sites to find this error and solution buy essay but can't find anything!

Please help!

Make sure you have the 32-bit kernel. NCL won't run on the 64-bit kernel (or at least v1.1 wouldn't).

trying to use outlook 2003

I currently have groupwise 6.5 at our work but want to remain with outlook 2003. I am abe to receive emails but not send them. I can also view my address books in groupwise from outlook. How can I bypass groupwise as the default program?

Doug

Answer

GroupWise v6.5 did not have a Plug-In for Outlook. Outlook can only access the GroupWise v6.5 environment as an IMAP/SMTP client.

GroupWise v7 included a Plug-In for OL2K3, which allows OL2K3 to access GroupWise pretty much as a native client. The Plug-In requires a GroupWise v7 back-end - you can't get the Plug-In and expect it to work against a v6.5 back-end.

not able to uses my CDROM and NIC in vmware guest

need help install course 3060 SLES9 as a guest using VMware 4 on a Dell Latitude D510.

it does not recognize the IDE\CDROM SONY_DVD+-RW_DW-Q58A

Plus i am not able to connect to the internet through VMware 4 guest SLES 9 KDE browser.

As a XP pro host all of my deveices are working. Thanks in advanced...Bobby

Asset Management

We are having an issue with monitors updating in asset management as they are replaced. Does anyone have any tips to help with this? Has anyone taken the ATT online courses and have any comments about them?

zero byte files in Novell salvage

Hi All, Big problem! I used to be able to salvage files with Filer after deletion, however, when files are deleted or overwritten from a WIndows XP PC, the salvage utility in Filer does find the files, BUT it is all with zero bytes and it is then not possible to salvage those files. Is there any other way to salvage such files or do a repair before salvaging? The Netware version is NWSB 6.0 Any help will be much appreciated, Ben Bodenstein from thesis writing service ben@powerprop.co.za

external links from Netware to Linux box

How do I link or show documents from a Netware 6.5 box to a mediawiki Linux box? Should be easy but I'm stumped. Thanks.

I installed SUSE Linux and I want to acess telnet from window, I could not telnet from the window. I activated telnet services, even than it is not working. Please help me.

Thanks

Ansari


Afternoon CoolSolutions

Can You Assist me with the following problems

I Have installed & further 512mb of ram ( Total 1GB ) into my machine but when i fired it up the system refused to start ( went to command line only ) I removed the 512mb stick & the machine started like normal the video NIVIDA Driver Started But Failed can you Please Help

The Other Issue is could you please assist with the procedure to install and the setup for a external modem so i can fax from the Kfax Program

Many Thanks in advance

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