As an attendant to JBoss World I was given the chance to do a Red Hat certification exam for free at Red Hat Chicago … and here it is: RHCT – Red Hat Certified Technician

The last few days I observed that even some shell geeks didn`t know about script. So I thought I should blog about this.

What is it all about?
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If you cannot access the internet directly you can tunnel your ssh connection through a SOCKS proxy.

Bart wrote a how-to in his blog. It works great on Mac OSX, but it’s working the same way on other *nix.

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The Java Mac OSX Update for 1.6 is out and I have problems starting up Eclipse with that.

As a workaround I pinned the java vm for the Eclipse startup:

1. Show Package Contents for Eclipse.app
2. Edit Eclipse-Key in Contents/Info.plist

Everything is already documented there.

Now it looks like:

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Motivation:

• Apache Tomcat as webapp access (embedded in JBoss AS)
• don’t want Apache httpd in front (not using mod_jk, mod_proxy_http)
• don’t want priviledged user to run Tomcat at 80/443 (aka http/https)
• developing locally

Solution:

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