Work Smart, Not Hard
drfugazi When you have installed operating system and developement tools, then we can install additional software which will serve network services on server or cluster. Again – there is several ways to install this kind of software: prepared packages from Sun, binary packages from community or other companies or sources, which you must to unpack and compile. I usually prefer last option.
After installation and basic configuration of operating system, you usually need to install additional software from Sun/Oracle. I install developement toolkit and compilers from SunStudio. If you wiil build cluster, then you will need Solaris Cluster and related packages.
You can install Solaris different ways. The simpliest one is to put DVD to drive, sit down near graphical console, keyboard, mouse and click for installation options. But this way you can install Desktop station or small server install.
If you have more hardware and especially you want to build High Availability installation, where essential thing is homogenous of systems then worth of attention are other methods of installation as Flash Archive or Custom Jumpstart.
You must to find your own preffered type, I prefer now Custom Jumpstart.
You will find here some informations about installation, configuration and administration of Unix systems. As I work mainly on Solaris 10, then most of stories will concern this system. Anyway, there is a lot of pages about Linux in the Internet, but Solaris has its own folklores. If you want to work with Solaris you need to learn those “folklores”. I will try to give you some solutions. My daily duties are administration and implementation of network services, then if I will have some spare time, I will write about it too.
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general
purpose cryptography library.
The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation.
OK. I assume that we have installed Funambol, as I described here. It is time to run the server. Go to the Funambol directory (default: /opt/Funambol) and run:
# ./bin/funambol start
if you are lucky the server will start, but on Solaris, you need to modify scripts, because you problably will see that message:
./bin/funambol: J2EE_HOME=/opt/Funambol/tools/tomcat: is not an identifier
and again – this is compatibility problem between Linux and Unix shell. But personally I think, that Funambol developers should correct this, and in place of:
Funambol is Open Source software, which act as a server BIS (BlackBerry Internet Server) and provide contacts, calendars, notes and email synchronization with BlackBery devices.
Funambol is not only BIS server – it also provides related projects like plugins to most popular email clients like Outlook or Thunderbird, desktop software provides synchronization of contacts with Mac OS X, Google Mail, Yahoo or Evolution. There are also applications to mobile phones with Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android and for iPhone and others. But at first I will attend synchronization server.
GnuPG is the GNU project‘s complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by
RFC4880. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. GnuPG, also known asGPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend applications and
libraries are available. Version 2 of GnuPG also provides support for S/MIME.
GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). It can be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
GnuPG comes in two flavours:
1.4.10 is the well known and portable standalone version, whereas
2.0.15 is the enhanced and somewhat harder to build version.
Project Gpg4win provides a Windows version of GnuPG. It is nicely integrated into an installer and features several frontends as well as (German) manuals.
Project Aegypten developed the S/MIME functionality in GnuPG 2.
“This page offers a better way to create a strong, yet easy to remember passphrase for use with encryption and security programs. Weak passwords and passphrases are one of the most common flaws in computer security. Take a few minutes and learn how to do it right. The information presented here can be used by anyone.”
This is cite from original home page of Diceware Passphrase: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
Few days ago I received a copy of mail about possibility of run BlackBerry solution at University of Silesia. I conclude that I should familiarize with this subject and software, which can serve this kind of services. Assume that our mail servers does not work under control of any followed systems: MS Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise, then for today we can not run BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) and we must to run BIS (BlackBerry Internet Server) service, which synchronize mail using standard protocols as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. I received at once link to Funambol software, which has those capacities. For those who are not familiar with BlackBerry I placed here (marketing) description from http://uk.blackberry.com/ page: