[gentoo-server] mysql 4.1.19 to 5.0.22 upgrade

2006-06-06 Thread Covington, Chris
Hi all, What is the upgrade procedure for mysql 4.1.X to go to 5.0.X? Should I follow the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml procedure, or can I do an in-place upgrade? I was able to upgrade in-place by adding dev-db/mysql ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords on a test machine

[gentoo-server] openldap overlays

2006-05-04 Thread Covington, Chris
Hi all, I've installed the 2.3.21 ~x86 build of openldap in order to use the translucent overlay. In the source this is located under openldap-2.3.21/servers/slapd/overlays/translucent.c but it doesn't appear to be built - I have no translucent.la or translucent.so. How can I build this

Re: [gentoo-server] mysql-4.1

2005-10-20 Thread Covington, Chris
all you need to do is the follow step by step what's written here : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I followed that and I wasn't able to restore my backup. Specifically, the snort database was screwed up: frank2k3 ccovington # cat BACKUP_MYSQL_4.0.SQL | mysql -uroot

[gentoo-server] java issues

2005-09-27 Thread Covington, Chris
One of my machines seems to be having misc problems with Java. It's running tomcat, apache2 dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.09. When I try to emerge struts or hsqldb (which are dependencies of ~x86 Tomcat) I get the following errors: For hsqldb: videodrome ccovington # emerge -vDu world Calculating

[gentoo-server] ftp server recommendations

2005-08-17 Thread Covington, Chris
Hi all, I'm looking for a secure, fast FTP server to authenticate against an LDAP backend. I've narrowed it down to these from portage: vsftpd pure-ftpd proftpd Can anyone recommend one over the other? thanks --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY

RE: [gentoo-server] tomcat5 sun-jdk issue

2005-08-09 Thread Covington, Chris
can you post your server.xml ? Basically it's the default one that comes with the tomcat5 ~x86 ebuild: !-- Example Server Configuration File -- !-- Note that component elements are nested corresponding to their parent-child relationships with each other -- !-- A Server is a singleton

tomcat tuning was Re: [gentoo-server] tomcat5 sun-jdk issue

2005-08-09 Thread Covington, Chris
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/linux/index. html OK thanks! Now I suppose this is a separate issue, but how can I tune tomcat5? So far I've set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms128m -Xmx512m in /etc/conf.d/tomcat-5. My /etc/apache2/jk-workers.properties is the default which has 1