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mortenbra / centos_update.sh

Last active August 29, 2015 14:22

Update CentOS packages via yum

	# check what updates are available
	yum check-update

	# update everything
	yum update -y

	# update everything except the kernel
	#yum update -y --exclude=kernel*

mortenbra / centos_firewall.sh

Last active January 10, 2023 02:41

Basic firewall (iptables) script for CentOS with openings for SSH, HTTP and HTTPS

	#!/bin/bash

	# see http://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/linux-firewall.php

	# Set the default policies to allow everything while we set up new rules
	# Prevents cutting yourself off when running from remote SSH
	iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
	iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
	iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

mortenbra / oracle_upload_software.sh

Last active August 31, 2015 13:44

Copy Oracle installation files from client to server using SCP

	# copy files from client to server
	# assumes you have downloaded everything into an "install" folder
	# adjust SSH port number, file paths, server/host name and version numbers as appropriate
	cd /users/yourname/install/oracle
	scp -P 22 oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip root@server-name-or-ip:/u01/download/
	scp -P 22 apex_5.0.1_en.zip root@server-name-or-ip:/u01/download/
	scp -P 22 jdk-7u79-linux-x64.rpm root@server-name-or-ip:/u01/download/
	scp -P 22 ords.2.0.10.289.08.09.zip root@server-name-or-ip:/u01/download/

mortenbra / xe_install.sh

Last active August 29, 2015 14:22

Install Oracle XE on CentOS

	# install Oracle XE 11g on CentOS

	# assumes the installation file has already been copied to /u01/download

	# create Oracle user and groups
	groupadd oinstall
	groupadd dba
	useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oinstall oracle
	chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01

mortenbra / oracle_sqlplus_env.sh

Created June 6, 2015 13:06

Add Oracle environment variables to bash profile in CentOS

	# setup Oracle environment in bash profile to be able to access sqlplus from anywhere

	# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16823591/how-to-add-lines-to-end-of-file-linux
	# this adds the Oracle environment variables to the "oracle" user, but you may also want to add it to root or any other users
	echo '. /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/oracle_env.sh' >> /home/oracle/.bash_profile

mortenbra / centos_hosts_file

Last active February 22, 2025 16:38

Sample /etc/hosts file for CentOS

	# sample /etc/hosts file
	# see http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13046/format-of-etc-hosts-on-linux-different-from-windows

	# IPv4
	127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
	# IPv6
	::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

	# put your IP address and your hostname and aliases below
	1.2.3.4 myserver.mydomain.example myserver

mortenbra / tomcat_service_script

Last active June 27, 2019 07:36

Tomcat script to start, stop and restart service on CentOS (save this as "tomcat" under /etc/init.d/)

	#!/bin/bash
	# description: Tomcat Start Stop Restart
	# processname: tomcat
	# chkconfig: 234 20 80
	JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest
	export JAVA_HOME
	PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
	export PATH
	CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat7/latest

mortenbra / tomcat_connector.xml

Last active August 29, 2015 14:22

Regular HTTP Connector for Tomcat server.xml file

	<Connector port="8090" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
	connectionTimeout="20000"
	maxThreads="400"
	compression="on"
	compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript"
	redirectPort="8443"
	server="whateverFakeName"
	URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

mortenbra / xe_post_install_optimize.sql

Last active August 29, 2015 14:22

Adjust session, process and memory parameters for Oracle XE after install

mortenbra / java_env.sh

Created June 10, 2015 05:09

Add Java environment variables to bash profile in CentOS

	# setup Java environment in bash profile to be able to access java from anywhere

	# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16823591/how-to-add-lines-to-end-of-file-linux
	# http://www.davidghedini.com/pg/entry/install_tomcat_7_on_centos
	echo "JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest" >> /root/.bash_profile
	echo "export JAVA_HOME" >> /root/.bash_profile
	echo "PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH" >> /root/.bash_profile
	echo "export PATH" >> /root/.bash_profile