Following the Fuse day (#6) and the very poor documentation and the amount of bugs found in the Chef Solo cookbooks for the Chef OSS server, I put together a set of script which will attempt to clear all the clutter around installing a Cehf OSS server.
By default the firewall is turned 'on' on ubuntu server.
When you're inside a corporate network which is already under a corporate-firewall this service is not needed and even can cause problems accessing services that are on the ubuntu server (such as ssh, jenkins and more).
For disabling the firewall on the ubuntu server, run the following command:
sudo ufw disable
In order to turn it on when required, run: sudo utw enable
I don't know how many people use a ssl vpn to connect to work over ubuntu.
All i can say is that it is not fun.
The latest version of ubuntu has removed java from its repository, and this has caused a lot of problems.
After working at it for a few hours i managed to fix it, i hope my experience will help others.
First step, check how may versions of java you have on your machine:
update-java-alternatives -l
If you have more that one row, you are not in a good state.
Chinese developers/hackers have come up with a solution for those who want the look and feel of Windows XP, but can’t or won’t pay Microsoft the license fee.
Read the full story here
An excellent blog post which debates and disscuses, how open source can make better products based on Apple model.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10274039-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&sub...
Subversion 1.5 is out for some time now but no one in the ubuntu project add an apt-get package to the repositories. Until it will be done, using svn 1.5 on ubuntu box mean building subversion from source in the good old Linux way.
Subversion provide a ready to build tarball using gnu utils. Once downloaded and untar - cd into the root folder (subversion-1.5.2 in my case) and run:
$./configure <long output ...> $make <even longer output ...> $sudo make install
And that it. well - almost.
I came across some issues during the process: