Worlds collide: Oracle and Sun JDK. Perfect start to ruin a not so bad Monday morning. Background: Need to have a Tomcat Server deployed on a Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 system. I was happy, when i saw a tomcat5 package in the repositories. Great, i thought. All i need. Well. Not. Under Windows you’ll get […]
Recently i needed windows clients to access a directory on the database server from which CLOBs where created. Since the server is an Oracle Enterprise Linux, i could follow the steps explained behind the following link to get Samba up and running with the Active Directory run by a Windows 2k3 server: Which steps must […]
Installing the latest incarnation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as a paravirtualized machine in Oracle VM Server is a bit tricky. The OEL5 is delivered as 5 iso files, cd images they are. The Oracle VM Manager is only able to install the patched paravirtualized guest system from one installation medium. Damn it, they praise […]