Category Archives: Novell

GroupWise 2012 Upgrade

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Novell announced the release of GroupWise 2012, Tuesday January 25 2012.  So being a GroupWise devoted admin/user I made plans for a weekend upgrade of my mail system..

So Saturday morning I took a deep breath and started my upgrade. A note here that upgrades of the GroupWise back end normally are pretty painless, but you always have to watchout for Murphy.   So the first step was to make two backups of my GroupWise system, the first was with a custom backup script that backup my post offices using dbcopy and allows the backup to be done Continue reading →

GroupWise 2012 not receiving mail

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This is a strange error!!! I updated my OES server Sunday with the latest patches, everything seemed to be running fine after the system rebooted.  I found out this morning the users were unable to send mail to Internet addresses, even though everyone was receiving mail..

To explain the system in is a GroupWise 2012 running  on an OES2 SP3, SLES10 SP4 Linux box, with GWAVA for mail security.  I checked the system and it looked like everything should be working.  So I stared by restarting Continue reading →

GroupWise Webaccess login page blank, No error message

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I updated my GroupWise to the latest hot patch, I checked every thing but the webaccess login. When I went to https://server.domain/gw/webacc the page was blank with no errors. Checked the logs did not find any errors.

Started with the first to in my trouble shooting tool kit, Google.  Did a search on the problem, found a reference on NetWare but Continue reading →

Farewell to NetWare

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This last week I said farewell to NetWare.  I finally decommissioned my last running NetWare server. It has been a long run, I remember you NetWare in your early days, Version 1 when you ran on a dedicated hardware with a Motorola processor. Then Version 2   running on the Intel 286 and being able to use the server as a workstation. The arrival of Version 3 was some growing pains, but the 3.12 release became Continue reading →

MySQL new install

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Installed MySQL in a OES2 server this week, install went fine. YaST install was fast and seamless. Used the Linux client to setup the users and the databases, creating the databases and users was straight forward once the syntax was correct, thanks to google made finding the syntax fairly painless.
Once created this is where problem started, getting the users access to the databases for a workstation. Mostly this issue Continue reading →