Fedora / Red Hat Users Group

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:16 Written by Brian Sunday, 20 July 2008 12:03

I am currently in the organizing stages of putting a local Fedora / Red Hat Users group together for the Western New York area. Perhaps over time and with some success I can also draw a few Southern Ontario users as well since it is only about 25 minutes away.

Currently there is a Linux Users Group already in the area, http://nflug.org however they seem to meet sporadically, over the past year and I havent been able to attend any of the few meetings they have had during that time. My thoughts are not to attempt to replace or compete with this existing group but rather possibly spin-off from it and potentially get any Fedora / Red Hat users already in that group interested in also attending the one I am putting together.

The groups focus will be entirely Fedora / Red Hat linux, while users of other distros are more than welcome to participate in the meetings all presentations, topics and content will be based on Fedora and Red Hat software.

I already have a meeting area secured and will post details of it’s location in the near future, as well as a finalized first meeting date (Sometime in October) and the agenda on http://rhatters.org

Domino 8 on RHEL 5.2

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:38 Written by Brian Sunday, 6 July 2008 12:30

Running the Domino server installer on Red Hat platforms.
To successfully install a Domino 8 server using graphical mode on supported Red Hat platforms, I performed the following steps: (Note these steps were performed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x86_64)

1. Install the seamonkey fedora rpm from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.11/contrib/FC_RPMS/seamonkey-1.1.11-1.i386.rpm

or simply download the source rpm from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.11/contrib/FC_RPMS/source/seamonkey-1.1.11-1.src.rpm and build it yourself

2. Install the following dependency packages.

#yum install libXp libXmu

3. After the initial install run the following as root

#/usr/bin/xhost local:notes

#su notes
#cd /local/notesdata <– if this is the data path you selected during installation

#/opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server

to complete the install.

I had a couple of issues setting up the Domino 8 server on Linux.

– when installing the server, do not select to create the symbolic link – softlink if you are installing into the default locations.

- I also had the usual problem where x-windows could not display the setup program. The error was

“Please edit your shell’s DISPLAY environment variable to
reflect an unlocked terminal that you would like to launch
the Domino Setup Program”
The fix was to su to root and run the command /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost this sets security to let the machine export the display on it’s own screen
then as the “notes” user run…
DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY

Once this is done cd to the /local/notesdata directory and run /opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server to start the setup program.

RHCE Certification – Back on track!

Last Updated on Monday, 30 June 2008 03:54 Written by Brian Saturday, 28 June 2008 11:31

I have been studying for a little while now in preperation for taking the RHCE Exam. My initial goal was to have it completed before the Red Hat Summit, but a rather large Red Hat Enterprise Linux implementation that consisted of an HP 7000 series Blade Center, Clustering, Virtualization and LeftHand Network SANS had me real busy over the past month which pushed my goal back a bit, now that this job is coming to a close I intend to get back into the swing of things with my RHCE Cert.

With summer now here and the kids finally out of school we do plan to travel a bit (while the weather is good, and here in Buffalo, NY that timeframe is short ) so my new goal is taking the exam towards the end of August or the beginning of Sept.