Friday, November 6, 2015

Oracle JDK on Centos 7

Download and install the Oracle JDK
rpm -ivh jdk-7u80-Linux-x64.rpm


Set the Java environment variables
vi /etc/profile.d/java.sh


Add the following lines to java.sh
#!/bin/bash
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_80/
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH JAVA_HOME
export CLASSPATH=.



Make java.sh executable
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/java.sh


Set the variables,
source /etc/profile.d/java.sh







Thursday, November 5, 2015

Copy / Move Outlook Profile to new computer

Copy or move your PST to the new location / computer.


Account Settings, POP servers, logins and all that info is stored in the registry.  Open the registry and export this key,


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook


Import the key into the new computer.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Ubuntu, extend LVM

- add new disk to the VM and reboot
- fdisk -l , should see the new disk, make note of its device name, ex. /dev/sdb or /dev/sda
- create a partition on the new space,
cfdisk /dev/sdb
or
fdisk /dev/sdb
- create physical volume and reboot,
pvcreate /dev/sdb
reboot
- vgdisplay to get the name of your volume group
- extend the volume group onto the new physical volume
vgextend Ubuntu-vg /dev/sdb1
- lvdisplay to get the name of our main logical volume
- extend the logical volume
lvextend -L +XXG LogicalVolumeName  , where XX is the number of gigs to add
lvextend -l +100%FREE LogicalVolumeName   , extends using all free space
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/Ubuntu-vg/root
- extend the filesystem
resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/root