Eric Covener’s Journal

Something odd in my 64-bit RHEL install left me without any of the 32-bit runtime. I had never used yum before, and always hand-resolved RPM dependencies when I needed to meet something like a WebSphere prerequisite.

• Mount your install media
• mkdir /tmp/repo
• cp -r /media/dvdrw/packages/*.rpm /tmp/repo
• (cd /tmp/repo && rpm -i createrepo* *deltarpm*
• createrepo .
• cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
  [local]
  gpgcheck=0
  name=localrepo
  baseurl=file:///tmp/repo
  ^D

Now e.g. yum install libXp.i686 will grab up all the basic 32-bit low-level stuff for you.

IBM HTTP Server 8.0, IBM’s webserver based on Apache HTTP Server, is part of the WebSphere Application Server Beta: https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/websphere/wsasoa/.

A list of changes in this release is available herehttp://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.ihs.doc/info/ihs/ihs/cihs_newfunction.html. Only the new installer and new architecture support are probably of interest in the beta, along with the added flexibility in the SSLCipherSpec directive.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/moreutils

This is a growing collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago, when Unix was young.

So far, it includes the following utilities:

– combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
– ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
– ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
– isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
– lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
– mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
– parallel: run multiple jobs at once
– pee: tee standard input to pipes
– sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
– ts: timestamp standard input
– vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
– vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
– zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command