Oracle Webcache Manager password resets
As far as I know the only documented way to reset either the Webcache Manager web Console administrator or invalidator passwords in Oracle 10g AS is to use either the Manager web Console itself or the IAS Console. Both require you know the old password.
Right.
Anyway, here’s how you do it if you’re a real sysadmin.
1. [...]
Oracle WebCache Maintenance Mode
Really bad title, but you get the idea. Here’s the scenario. You’ve got an Oracle 10g AS Portal fronted by Oracle 10g AS WebCache and the database is coming down for patching. If this were your standard Apache HTTP Server in front of JBoss or Weblogic, you’d probably just insert an .htacess file with a [...]
Google Chrome on RHEL/CentOS
Thanks to Chris Staite over at the University of Birmingham for his chrome-wrapper (link to tar.gz download) rebuild of Google’s shipping source of chromium (the open source version of the chrome browser).
Before running this you need to add at least the xdg-utils and libXcomposite rpms (I installed via yum).
Just unpack, (resulting directory will be “chrome”) [...]
Labeling your OSSO login page
Just a simple little trick that may make you look like a genius to the uninitiated: sticking an environment name on your Oracle 10g AS SSO banner page.
All you have to do is edit the following file on your SSO server:
$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/OC4J_SECURITY/applications/sso/web/pages/header.jsp
Right about here (starting at line 67 in an unmodified header.jsp file, new stuff in [...]
FAST disappearing
Well, at least there won’t be any new Linux or Unix versions of the once-popular (now Microsoft) FAST ESP search server. From the Horse’s Mouth:
With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we’ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have [...]
Desktop background colors
Been screwing around with different desktop background colors tonight and needed to make a note or two.
This color chart is a great resource. All 216 “Netscape” colors, rendered more or less accurately (at least on my monitor).
Right now I’ve got my background set to #336699.
Not sure, but I think #336699 is pretty close to the [...]
Archives for Mailman
These are notes for another day.
GNU Mailman is one of the better open source mail list managers out there. It’s used by … almost everyone.
Postfix is the preferred MTA, as it should be.
Mailman comes with a built-in non-searchable mail archive manager called pipermail. Most sites use pipermail for their archives and are happy with it. [...]