Tomcat 6 on Debian Lenny

I need to install Tomcat 6 for a school assignment. I thought the installation process was easy as counting 123, but it turned out to be a few hours long of head scratching. Well, the first start is to setup a few environment variables as required by Tomcat: CATALINA_HOME=/home/kenno/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.13 export CATALINA_HOME; export CATALINA_BASE# JAVA_HOME and Path to java, javac JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/bin export JAVA_HOME; export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}:. It can be stored in a setEnv....

August 14, 2007 · 2 min · 227 words · kenno

Bash Command Shortcuts

How many times do you find yourself using arrow keys to scroll to the beginning or the end of line of the command line in bash terminal? Do you use backspace to delete every character of what you type to clear the command line? Well, if you answer “yes” to any of the two questions, continue reading. I, myself, have been doing this a lot because I couldn’t remember the shortcut keys to do those tasks....

July 4, 2007 · 1 min · 193 words · kenno

How to kill defunct process

Defunct processes are corrupted processes that can no longer communicate between the parent and child one. Sometimes, they become “zombies” and remain in your system until you reboot your machine. You can try to apply “kill -9” command, but most of the time you’ll be out of luck. In order to kill theses defunct processes, you have two choices: Reboot your computer Continue reading… First, let’s find out if the system contains defunct process:...

April 4, 2007 · 2 min · 354 words · kenno

Airport Extreme and Fedora Core 6

Ever since Fedora Core 6 was installed on my PowerBook, I can only access the Internet via ethernet port. It is a not a big problem at home, however if I want to access my university’s network or the Internet from there, the Wireless access is the only way. There is almost no where on campus or in the lab that I could hook the ethernet cable in. So everytime I want to access the network there, I have to boot into Mac OS X....

March 9, 2007 · 2 min · 320 words · kenno

Enable Right-click & Middle-click with Fedora Core 6

The title should have been “How to enable right-click and middle click of PowerBook G4’s one-button-mouse in Fedora Core 6”. Since I’m not very keen in selecting a good title, I hope the one I wrote above made sense. My Apple PowerBook G4 comes with just one button mouse. It’s not a problem when using it in OS X because I can simply emulate the right click by holding “fn” key while clicking....

March 3, 2007 · 2 min · 238 words · kenno