The IBM AIX Software Toolbox download page includes a package for MySQL 3.23, but that was a little bit too aged for my purposes. Fortunately MySQL distributes binaries for IBM AIX here:
That package will work out of the …
WAS does not seem to install any default init scripts, so I created one. You can configure it to start and stop multiple application servers by listing them all in the APPSERVERS variable (separated by spaces).
#!/bin/sh # chkconfig: 35 99 10 # description: Starts and stops Websphere Application Server . /lib …
When my Linux firewall box died a couple of months ago, I finally decided to by a Cisco router for my Internet connection. Before the Linux box I had an OpenBSD firewall, and I decided it was time to learn yet another platform.
The box is a Cisco 877W which …
The Subsystem Device Driver [SDD] is a pseudo device driver designed to support the multipath configuration environments in the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, the IBM TotalStorage DS family, the IBM SystemStorage SAN Volume Controller. It resides in a host system with the native disk device driver and provides the …
First, some empty disk space is needed. Let's create a logical volume for our new virtual machine:
root@xenserver1:~# lvcreate -n testlv -L 10G vg0 Logical volume "testlv" created
Create a filesystem on the new logical volume:
root@xenserver1:~# mke2fs -j /dev/vg0/testlv mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Filesystem label …
VMware Server needs exactly two kernel modules running on the host system (there are separate modules for guest systems). These are the vmmon and the vmnet modules. Unfortunately, the vmmon and vmnet packages included in the VMware server distribution package don't compile with the newest kernels. When I upgraded my …
A few months ago I released a script to install a 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin to a 64-bit Firefox, but it doesn't seem to work in Gutsy beta. Here's an updated one. I upgraded my laptop to Gutsy and used this one to get Flash working.
Edit: I did a …
To communicate securely using SSL (also known as TLS or Transport Layer Security), web servers need a key pair of public and private keys. This key pair can be generated and signed by yourself, but to prevent the web browser from asking "stupid" questions about the validity of a certificate …
An SSH server can be handy on a Windows machine, too. Cygwin comes with OpenSSH, and provides a lot of useful tools which you can use over the SSH connection. Here's how to install Cygwin and OpenSSH server on a Windows machine.
Install Cygwin. Make sure you also install OpenSSH …
A RAID array is a bunch of disks used together in co-operation to create a redundant storage facility. Hard drives are mechanical devices with moving parts, which makes them prone to failure. You can imagine what it means to spin the hard drive platters at 7200 rpm, for years without …
