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SSH Convenience

14 Mai
ssh-convenience

It is common practice to use ssh (= secure shell) for remote administration. Foremost because it is a very secure way doing it, and supported on a vast variety of operating systems:

  • BSD (Free-/Net-/OpenBSD) – comes along with OpenSSH already
  • Linux (Debian, Fedora, RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc.) – mostly comprises an optional OpenSSH software package
  • Mac OS X – comes along with OpenSSH already
  • Unix (AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, etc.) – comprise all some SSH software package
  • Windows – regularly lacks of useful tools, but putty fills that gap complete

 

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Setup Oracle Instant Client

13 Mai
setup-oracle-instant-client

The Oracle database client installation software is rather large in size.

$ ls -l *11g*
-rw-r--r-- 1 rasti staff 642016988 2010-04-27 23:36 linux_11gR2_client.zip

Not only the approximate 630MB in size but also the graphical installation procedure is sometimes a big shortcoming. And for simply accessing an Oracle SQL Server a lesser volume of data might be sufficient too. There the Oracle Instant Client comes into play.
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Linux & NTFS are best friends

27 Aug

Fast jeder, der die Überschrift liest, wird jetzt denken “Der Verfasser spinnt”.
Viele Linux (Suse)-Nutzer kennen bestimmt das Problem, dass Festplatten, vorallem auf NTFS formatierte, von Linux (Suse) nicht erkannt werden. Es erscheint eine lange und komplizierte Meldung, die die Überschrift “Cannot mount Volume” trägt.

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