SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Script: Bash: File Retention
Summary: A bash script for (log) file retention.
Date: 27 Jun 2011
Refactor: 16 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
SLES Installation Update Server 11
Summary: How to setup a SLES 11 Installation Server.
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 16 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
The installed SLES 11 is installed through this installation report
Although there is already an article on the Suse Installation Update Server, I created this article especially for 11 (64 bit). This article will be less extensive and will only cover installation and update services for SLES 11, while the original article explains the installation for openSuse, SLES 10, updating them, and combining multiple installation and update services.
Before you can start the installation and configuration you'll need storage for the installation and update files. I created a 50 GB disk and created a ext3 filesystem (without updating access time) which will be mounted on /var/data.
When the filesystem is mounted create two directories which will serve as the install and update root:
/var/data # ls -l total 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 6 12:15 install drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 6 11:54 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 6 11:55 updates
Disable Auto FileSystem Check on SLES
Summary: How to disable the Auto FileSystem Check on SLES
Date: Around 2022
Refactor: 16 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
On SLES 10, the sytem performs an auto check on the file systems by default. This can be very annoying when performing an emergency reboot on a production system. This behavior is adjusted for SLES 11 but as far as I am concerned I'd still check the setting.
Name Service Cache on SLES
Summary: How to work with the name service cache on SLES.
Date: Around 2010
Refactor: 16 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.