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• Data and Technology

  Posted on December 28th, 2008

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  admin, admin file, basedir, defaults, packages, pkgadd, solaris, sun, unix

  Install Solaris Package in Alternate Base Directory

  

  Unless you specify a different administrative file, the pkgadd command reads “/var/sadm/install/admin/default”, which specifies the base directory as “/opt”. Do not change the settings in this file, but rather create a custom admin file and enter an alternate “basedir” directive if you want to install your package into a different directory. We are going to [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on January 22nd, 2008

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  broken, packages, python, red hat, REHL3, RHEL4, rpm, rpm -e --nodeps, up2date, update, upgrade

  RHEL3 Upgrade to RHEL4 Breaks up2date

  Last week I had to upgrade one of our old RHEL3 servers in order to get it to address disks larger than 2TB. I did the upgrade from CD, and it went fairly smoothly, except up2date would not run after the box came back up.
  It gave me the following error:
  [root@x up2date]# Traceback (most recent call [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on December 21st, 2006

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  apache, centos, chkconfig, database, dependancies, horde, horde & imp from rpm, HowTo, hrhel, httpd, imap, imp, ldap, linux, mail server pear, mysql, mysqld, packages, perl-DBD, php, rpm, service, webmail

  Horde / IMP on RHEL 4 From RPM HOWTO

  

  Whenever you go to install applications and services on registered RHEL servers, it’s always nice to use the RPMs because up2date will keep everything current for you. Managing upgrades gets a whole lot easier when you can bring your system up to current with one simple command. Because of this, I decided that I would [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on December 19th, 2005

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  driver, fibre, fibre channel, fibrechannel, hba, luxadm, packages, pci-x, pkgrm, qla2300, qla2340, qlogic, solaris, solaris driver, sparc, sun, sun solaris, sunqqlc, sunwqlcx

  SUNWqlc Drivers Don’t Work With thw QLogic QLA2340 HBA

  The Qlogic QLA2340 HBA is a 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X to 2 Gb Fibre Channel adapter. It’s a cool card, but it doesn’t work with the standard SUNWqlc and SUNWqlcx drivers. You have to remove these driver packages and install the one directly from QLogic in order to get it working.
  # pkgrm SUNWqlc
  # pkgrm SUNWqlcx
  Now, download [...]

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