With the release of VMware Player 4.0.1 (as noted here) VMware has also released new VMware Tools version 8.8.1. If, for some reasons, you need to get them directly (and not from VMware Player) you can grab them from here: http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/player/4.0.1/528992/
VMware Player 4.0.1 announced
VMware has just announced the release of the updated VMware Player. VMware Player is the free product from VMware to perform virtualization on desktop PC. The release 4.0.1 follows the version 4.0.0 released at the beginning of October.
You can find release notes for VMware Player 4.0.1 here.
How to install GOsa on RHEL/CentOS 5
As you can read on GOsa website: “GOsa² provides a powerful GPL’ed framework for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases. Using GOsa² allows system administrators to easily manage users and groups…”. The installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS is a bit tricky and here you will find how to install it.
Windows port forwarding
In Linux world port forwarding is a common feature: if you need to forward traffic from port XX to port YY you simply use the integrated Linux firewall called iptables. In Microsoft Windows the integrated firewall is not so sophisticated as the Linux one and I needed to found a solution. A friend of mine was asked about this question and answered: “You cannot find anything working… if you find something let me know!”.
How to clone a schema in MySQL
Today I needed to clone a schema in MySQL: simply I upgraded my monitoring software Zabbix and thus I needed to “upgrade” also the DB schema where Zabbix saves data. As this is a destructive operation I wanted to have the zabbix schema cloned. But how do you clone a schema in MySQL?
Zabbix agents for Solaris 10
ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution. I use it at work and I like it very much. Today I needed the Zabbix Agent for Solaris10 for Intel and, as I still use version 1.4, I downloaded the precompiled agents binaries from Zabbix site. I’m writing this post because I found a problem!
How to install Oracle Client 10g on Solaris10
Today I needed to install an Oracle Client on a new Solaris10 (x86 64bit) installation: I found a useful tutorial here but it helps you to install the whole database and not only the client. As you may guess the client installation is easier than the Oracle DB Server one.
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How to install a MySQL cluster on a single UNIX/Linux server
In this tutorial I will show you how to install a MySQL cluster on a single node: obviously you will not gain any hardware redundancy with this setup but it is useful if you need to create a test installation as it was for me. You can find many tutorials about this topic but they are quite old and MySQL Cluster changed a lot in last years.
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How to install Oracle Client 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64bit
Today I needed to install the Oracle Client 10g on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64bit: all around the net you can find many useful tutorial on how to install the Oracle DB Server but I cannot find how to install only the client. As you may guess the client installation is easier than the Oracle DB Server one.
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How to install Oracle Client 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Today I needed to install the Oracle Client 10g on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 32bit: all around the net you can find many useful tutorial on how to install the Oracle DB Server but I cannot find how to install only the client. As you may guess the client installation is easier than the Oracle DB Server one.
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