I’ve been struggling to install the beast that is Clearcase 7.1.1 on a proof of concept server. In this case the server is a Solaris 10 64bit install running on VMware Fusion 3. One of the initial mistakes I made was to try and run the installation from a network mount. DON’T. Solaris must block …
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BOE XIR2 cmsdbsetup failure on Oracle10g
If you use Unix, and need to migrate your Business objects CMS from one database to another database, you will probably use the cmsdbsetup.sh script. This script migrates and manages your database connection in a Unix environment using Business Objects Enterprise (BOE). In my case I am Using Solaris 9, and have Oracle 10g databases …
awk oneliner to find large files
A mega geeky awk one-liner today. Tested on Solaris under bash, so YMMV. Have you ever found that a filesystem is filling up fast, and dont know what is causing it? This one liner (which can be placed in a cron job if you like) is best run as a super user. It will: Search …
Compiling readline on an OSX 10.5 intel x86_64
I’m stuck with a whole bunch of problems getting code to compile and co-operate nicely on my new MacBookPro. I’m compiling my own PHP, but it defaults to compiling for the i386 (32bit) architecure, which then fails when Apache2 running in 64bit mode tries to use the 32bit DSO for PHP5. Compiling PHP5 as 64bit …
