Category Archives: Ubuntu

Open source operating system quest

While waiting to see if my X300 sells on Craig’s list and before I eBay it, I figured I would go back to my roots and install a bunch of operating systems on the machine. It is very new hardware … Continue reading

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Multiple Tomcat instances Debian scripts

I opened a new Google Code project to manage the scripts I wrote that allow multiple instances of Tomcat to be run on Ubuntu. These scripts are now fully open source (more so than before I guess) and available to … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Gusty and Tomcat 5.5

Looks like Gusty (or something) changes some of the installation for Tomcat 5.5 and it requires some work to get back to normal. Here’s my changes thus far: sudo rm /usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/endorsed/* cd /usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/lib sudo apt-get install libmysql-java sudo ln -s … Continue reading

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Multiple Tomcat instances on Ubuntu

I’m spent about 6 hours total working on getting multiple instance of Tomcat to run on Ubuntu and finally wrote some scripts that I’d like to share with folks. These scripts do the following: 1. Setup the box to host … Continue reading

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My latest Ubuntu setup

I’ll keep editing as I go: Install LaunchBox bash$ sudo apt-get install gnome-launch-box bash$ gconf-editor Open apps->gnome-launch-box->bindings and set activate to <Super>l This allows gnome-launch-box to be activated using the Windows-L shortcut. Next setup gnome-launch-box to start automatically. Open System->Preferences->Sessions … Continue reading

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