Linux Windows System Administrator Help

Today  is a most beautiful day of  the sysadmin ie.  System Administrator Appreciation Day . It’s the one day of the year to be thankful for that person who keeps everything working, everything Live

An appreciation’s aim is to acknowledge the effort that system Administrator  do every day of the year 24×7 to keep everything working .

I hope all are enjoying it

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day !!!!!!!!!

Regards

Alex Parker

Hello,

This notification is sent out when “tailwatchd::chkservd” hangs. I have seen a few instances where this has happened as a result of the “update_sa_rules” command hanging due to a SpamAssassin RPM installed on the system. Please check to see if you have a SpamAssassin RPM installed on your system:

Code:

# rpm -qa|grep -i spam

If you do, I advise removing it, and reinstalling SpamAssassin via:

Code:

# /scripts/installspam

First download the  oracle instant client basic and devel files from oracle website : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxsoft-082809.html

oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm and
oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm

from the oracle website and install them:

# rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm
# rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm

Installing OCI8 from PECL

The OCI8 extension can be added to an existing PHP installation either automatically or manually from » http://pecl.php.net/. Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8.

For an automated install follow these steps:

If you are behind a firewall, set PEAR’s proxy, for example:

• pear config-set http_proxy http://my-proxy.example.com:80/

• Run

  pecl install oci8

  When prompted, enter either the value of $ORACLE_HOME, or instantclient,/path/to/instant/client/lib.

  Note: Do not enter the variable $ORACLE_HOME because it will not be expanded. Instead, enter the actual path of the Oracle home directory.

For a manual install, download the PECL OCI8 package, e.g. oci8-1.3.5.tgz.

• Extract the package:

  tar -zxf oci8-1.3.5.tgz
  cd oci8-1.3.5

• Prepare the package:

  phpize

• Configure the package, either using $ORACLE_HOMEor Instant Client

  ./configure -with-oci8=shared,$ORACLE_HOME

  or

  ./configure –with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/

• if you get this error: checking Oracle Instant Client SDK header directory… configure: error: Oracle Instant Client SDK header files not found it means your oracle devel package didnt install correctly.

  then run

• Install the package:

  make install

After either an automatic or manual install, edit your php.ini file and add the line:

extension=oci8.so

If you are having issues using oci_pconnect (causing apache segmentation faults) then you will need to use –with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib and install the 1.3.0 version of the OCI client from http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8