How to install GOsa on RHEL/CentOS 5

gosa logo2 How to install GOsa on RHEL/CentOS 5As 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.

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Windows port forwarding

Windows XP Logo small Windows port forwardingIn 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!”.

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How to install a MySQL cluster on a single UNIX/Linux server

logo mysql sun 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

redhat How to install Oracle Client 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64bitToday 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

redhat How to install Oracle Client 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Today 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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How to install Data Protector 6.0 on Ubuntu Linux 7.04

ubuntulogo How to install Data Protector 6.0 on Ubuntu Linux 7.04Yesterday I finished the installation of a new Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn and I needed to install the Data Protector Disk Agent to backup its files. I have a Windows 2003 cell manager and a HP-UX install server that should help with the installation of the Data Protector software on UNIX/Linux/Solaris hosts… I’m quite a newbye on the topic but I was unable to install the disk agent using the HP-UX install server so here you will find instructions for the “always working” manual installation.

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How to install Data Protector 6.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

redhat How to install Data Protector 6.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Yesterday I finished the installation of a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) and I needed to install the Data Protector Disk Agent to backup its files. I have a Windows 2003 cell manager and a HP-UX install server that should help with the installation of the Data Protector software on UNIX/Linux/Solaris hosts… I’m quite a newbye on the topic but I was unable to install the disk agent using the HP-UX install server so here you will find instructions for the “always working” manual installation.

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