dsccsetup nothing happens or “Failed to find a free port number !” message comes up

I had installed the Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition on my RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.2 VM using the Zip distribution into /opt/dsee7 Although the network adapters were configured and I was logged in as root, on issuing the following command, nothing happened #/opt/dsee7/bin/dsccsetup ads-create after what seemed ages, I got the message saying Failed to …

How to convert BIN/CUE files on Mac to ISO

I found an excellent article for this subject under this following link. http://tomyeah.com/howto-convert-bin-cue-to-iso-in-mac-os-x/ Just in case if the other site goes down (which has happened a few times in the past) and I lose this wonderful information, I had to copy paste the comments here. I’ve found a freeware solution, using the open source software …

Liferay Portal 6.0.6 com.liferay.portal.NoSuchCompanyException: No Company exists with the primary key 1

I installed a brand new copy of MySQL 5.1 on my mac at home. Downloaded the latest copy of Liferay Portal on Tomcat 6.0.6 and configured the portal-ext.properties to use MySQL as the database. Started the server which promptly created all the necessary tables and started successfully. Access the default liferay URL on http://localhost:8080 and …

VMWare Remote Console Standalone on Linux

I have copied the article from this page directly below to ensure that the content is not lost. Credit goes to philipl http://communities.vmware.com/thread/136783 a) Grab the appropriate xpi from /usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/webapps/ui/plugin/ (32 or 64bit)b) unzip the xpi into whatever directory you’d like.c) You’ll see four entries in your directory:– components/– install.js– install.rdf– plugins/We only care about …

Launching an item on startup in mac

Example message taken during port upgrade ############################################################ A startup item has been generated that will aid in# starting apache2 with launchd. It is disabled# by default. Execute the following command to start it,# and to cause it to launch at startup:## sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apache2.plist###########################################################

Mac Ports upgrade error Can’t map the URL ‘file://.’ to a port description file (“Could not find Portfile in /”)

When I was trying to upgrade my packages using the macports port command, I got the following error Can’t map the URL ‘file://.’ to a port description file (“Could not find Portfile in /“).Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.To use the current port, you must be in a port’s directory.(you might …