I AM RHCT

I passed the Red Hat Certified Technician exam last Friday. Yippee! I don't want to brag but I aced it. :-)

I will take the RHCE exam on Feburary 15 and will try to ace that one also.

Installing Oracle Calendar on Fedora GNU/Linux

The whole reason I was inspired to create this blog is that I installed Oracle Calendar client on a Linux box for the third time and decided to document the process since I'm sure I'll have to do it again.

Now, unfortunately, I'm at home and can't remember what the steps were. :-) I'll try to remember to do it tomorrow.

[time passes . . .]

Okay, it's tomorrow.

Including a compile time directive that I found online, here's what I did:

cp cal_linux cal_linux.bak
cat cal_linux.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > cal_linux
yum whatprovides libXp.so.6
yum install libXp.i386
./gui_install.sh
exit
ocal
yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.6
yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
ocal

:-) Some of that was unnecessary. The necessary parts are:

cp cal_linux cal_linux.bak
cat cal_linux.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > cal_linux
yum install libXp.i386
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386

I installed it in /opt and created a symbolic link to "ocal" in "/usr/local/bin".

ln -s /usr/local/bin/ocal /opt/OracleCalendar/bin/ocal.sh

New blog!

Yes, can't have have just one blog, must have many, many, many of them.

I deactivated my Geeklog at alijnabavi.info because I just wasn't maintaining the back end the way I felt I should and was sure I was going to suffer some attack at some point because I didn't install a security update. I definitely got a lot of comment spam and was sick of cleaning it out.

THEN. . . .

Then I deactivated my Geeklog at alijnabavi.info (I know I already said that) and moved my stuff over to Google. Now Google hosts my mail and several subdomains. Now they will (indirectly) host my bloggingz!!!!!11 Outstanding!

I was primarily interested in making my resume available so I put that up but have not done anything with the data that is in my Geeklog. If I ever run out of things to do (not likely) then I will post it in some form, maybe as a text dump right out of MySQL.

Okay, that's it. Now to change my DNS.

Excelsior!