Debian in Academic and Public Organisations
Folks, I am a Computer Science professor at American University in Washington D.C. I want to recommend that we replace Solaris in our Computer Science department with Debian. In doing so, I know that we will encounter problems wuite specific to the public (as in non-profit, public sector) and academic nature of the enterprise. I want to advocate Debian over RedHat and TurboLinux who are trying to sell into this market. Is there anyone else out there in this kind of organisation, who is using Debian in this kind of environment? Contact me and let's band together! Simon Read
Tomcat and Debian
Folks, Tomcat (the JSP/Java Servlets plug-in for Apache from Jakarta) is not available as a Debianised package. Is anyone working on this? Has anyone had success installing this under Debian? Is there a reason why a package hasn't yet been developed? I don't want to waste my time fighting with it if I can use someone else's efforts. Simon Read
JDK 1.2.2 with potato (Silly me!)
Folks, Thanks for all the help with JDK 1.2.2 on potato. It turns out my problem was largely my own stupidity in writing bad Java! I did learn some important things. To install JDK 1.2.2 from Blackdown or Sun: 1. Make a directory under /usr/local (I used /usr/local/sun). 2. Download the archine into this directory, then unpack it. A directory jdk1.2.2 will be created. 3. Adjust the alternatives to work correctly: update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac \ usr/local/sun/jdk1.2.2/bin/javac 120 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java \ usr/local/sun/jdk1.2.2/bin/java 120 4. Check your alternatives with "type" type javac type java Particular thanks go to Harvey Bath for explaining the alternatives mechanism to me. Simon Read Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Info. Sys. Clark 120 American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 1 202 885 3128 Fax: 1 202 885 1479 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.csis.american.edu/~simon
Problems /etc/alternatives and JDK 1.2.2 installation?
Folks, I've always had some problems with Java on my Debian machines. I made a fairly major upgrade recently and it's stopped working entirely. I get some mystical traceback from the ClassLoader that's pretty much useless. The correct class file exists and so forth. simon$ java edu/american/csis/examples/basic/HelloWorld Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: edu/american/csis/examples/basic/HelloWorld (wrong name: HelloWorld) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:438) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:97) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:244) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$1(URLClassLoader.java:212) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:193) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:286) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:282) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:243) In poking around I find that the /etc/alternatives files for java (java, javac, java-c and java-vm) continue to exist (despite having used dselect/dpkg to purge my JDK1.1 installation). Can someone explain the intent and policy for the /etc/alternatives to me? I'm especially interested in what java-c and java-vm are! Simon Read Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Info. Sys. Clark 120 American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 1 202 885 3128 Fax: 1 202 885 1479 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.csis.american.edu/~simon
CD/RW under potato
Folks, I'm getting pretty frustrated with my upgrade to potato. I bought a CD/RW at about the same time as upgrading, but I can't seem to make it work. I know I have to use the ide-scsi drivers, but I have no idea how to configure them. I can't make them recognise the devices I have. I have a regular CD drive and the CD/RW (an HP 8200i) connected to ide0, so they are hdc and hdd. Can anyone help me configure them? Does anyone know a 'fine' manual I can refer to? I've read all the relevant HOWTOs (I think) and they don't help! Simon Read Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Info. Sys. Clark 120 American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016 Tel: 1 202 885 3128 Fax: 1 202 885 1479 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.csis.american.edu/~simon
