Open Office - Unsatisfied Link Error [relevance: 2.75]

when running open office from a bootstrap routine or in headless mode for batch processing make sure the following settings to avoid an unsatisfied link error

soffice -accept="pipe,name=my_app;urp;"
java -Djava.library.path=/opt/openoffice.org/program java.app.class

useful reference on Oo: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=40263

Open Source Solutions [relevance: 2.72]

Open source alternatives for common desktop tasks in Windows and Linux

open ports in firewall etc [relevance: 1.71]

chown munin:munin /usr/share/munin/plugins*

chmod 0755 /usr/share/munin/plugins*

ln -s --target-directory=/etc/munin/plugins /usr/share/munin/plugins*

iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --destination-port 55 -j ACCEPT

iptables -nvL

Coutts SQL Exploit [relevance: 1.48]

This week i discovered a rather major whole in coutts.com 'secure' sql code.

When an unsuccessful application was made from their Services Application page it would take you through to the secure section and print out the SQL server login name and password

Income :£0-25k
Liquid :£0-100k
Fixed :£0-1m
DOB_Difference :0
Residence :
step1 :True
DECLINE DB Conn dsn=coutts_dsn;uid=coutts_user;pwd=coutts!user;database=db_coutts
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open database requested in login 'db_coutts'. Login fails.
/secure/include/coutts_app_streamlined.asp, line 460

They rectified the problem soon after I emailed them about it and didn't even have the decency to say thank you - what a polite bunch of chaps

Installing Java on Linux [relevance: 1.34]

Install:

chmod +x jdk-6u2-linux-i586-rpm.bin

./jdk-6u2-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Follow prompts [yes]/[no] etc

If it gives the error message

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Then you have to download

compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm

which can be found

ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/

or by googling it

rpm -i compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm
or # yum install libstdc++.so.5

The SDK installed in /usr/java/jdk/

add path to $HOME/.bash_profile

PATH=/usr/java/jdk/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin:./

export PATH

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk

export CLASSPATH=/usr/java/jdk/lib/tools.jar:/usr/java/jdk/jre/lib/rt.jar:./

Possible Issues

When installing Jboss 4.2.1.GA it throws a fit if you have anything less than Java 1.6 JRE and the 1.5 JDK installed - Centos installs it's own version of Java 1.4 to fulfil install dependencies and this seems to conflict with the Sun versions - make sure you uninstall GNU Java 1.4 from the package manager or any other way you fancy and then install first the 1.6 JRE followed by the 1.5 JDK. After that you can just drag a copy of Jboss onto the linux box and start it with /bin/./run.sh & (to spawn a process)