Installing an rpm on Debian

My days of supporting Debian are numbered.  That isn’t a complaint, it will actually be nice to support one platform soon.  Until then I thought I’d share a little. I needed to install oci8 to support a PHP application.  In doing this I ran into the following two problems, here are the solutions that worked […]

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ulimits and my limits

Even Linux systems have their limits!  One of the systems I manage started throwing a “Too many open files” error in /var/log/messages.  No error is good but this error is fixable.  A little tuning and the error goes away.  On this particular server we were running the Oracle Client and a Java Application, two very […]

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RHEL – Installing X Windows (required for Oracle Installs)

This is the quick and easy way to install X windows on your RHEL server > yum groupinstall “X Window System” “Fonts” To verify that is works, you ssh to your box using -X and then run “xclock” to verify that X windowing works. > ssh -X  myaccount@myhost > echo $DISPLAYl localhost:11.0 > xclock

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