Deploying TWiki 4.2.0 on Sun Java Web Server 7.0

(The following instructions are based on Manish Kapur's Installing TWiki on Sun Java System Web Server. These instructions complement Manish's 2005 blog post)The goal is to get the TWiki up and running on Sun Java Web Server (formerly known as Sun ONE Web Server / iPlanet Web Server). The assumption is that Sun Java Web Server is running on the Solaris operating system.Steps: Create 'twiki' user.% mkdir /export/twiki% useradd -d /export/twiki -s...

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OpenSolaris 2008.05

Sun Microsystems' own OpenSolaris distribution, OpenSolaris 2008.05, has been available for download for almost 3 weeks on the new web site www.opensolaris.com . Finally I had some time to test the Live CD on my Toshiba Tecra M2 notebook computer.I have been monitoring this effort (project Indiana as Sun calls it) from the beginning - so, I'm not surprised to see the Ubuntu like graphical interface. I spent very little time checking what is working...

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Oracle 10g: Exporting SQL Profile(s) from One System to Another

Oracle 10g RDBMS has some useful features to automate SQL tuning up to some extent. The SQL Tuning Advisor of Oracle 10g helps us in optimizing poorly written/tuned SQL statements. SQL Tuning Advisor can be used from the command line SQL*Plus environment or from the web based Enterprise Manager. The optimizer runs in the 'tuning' mode under the SQL Tuning Advisor; collects the SQL profile data and tries to improve the performance of the SQL by creating...

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