LAMP & Oracle Technical Information

runlevel is a preset operating state on a Unix-like operating system.

A system can be booted into (i.e., started up into) any of several runlevels, each of which is represented by a single digit integer.
Each runlevel designates a different system configuration and allows access to a different combination of processes
(i.e., instances of executing programs). The are differences in the runlevels according to the operating system.
Seven runlevels are supported in the standard Linux kernel (i.e., core of the operating system).

They are:

• What is webmin?

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Linux. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Linux configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

• Installing RPM

If you are using the RPM version of Webmin, first download the file and then run the command :

After installation of  phpMyAdmin, maybe you get the following error.

The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret).

To solve it, you could edite the phpmyadmin/config.inc.php file.
simply find the $cfg['blowfish_secret']= "" and input your blowfish secret from the file you found inside the "".
then comment out the include /etc/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php line and you should be ready to go.

To connect to a FTP server requiring a username with Firefox,

1. Open Firefox

2. In the locator bar, type ftp://username: password@ftp.xyz.com

For example, if my User name was jess12 and my password was bosox67, the FTP browser syntax would be:

ftp://user01: pass01@ftp.xyz.com

In some cases, the User name includes a domain name such as user01@xyz.com.
In these situations, you would type:

ftp:// user01@xyz.com: pass01@ftp.xyz.com
To connect to a FTP server with a User name with IE 6,

You have to download the following package from IBM and install it.

Maybe you get the errors.

Oracle has a product to fit every need. Its free product, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), will probably fit the needs of most small - to medium size business. As your business and application needs grow, you can move up to Standard Edition One, Standard Edition, and Enterprise Edition incrementally, with no coding changes other than to take advantage of increasing features available in each version. If you are a developer who needs more memory or disk space for your database than Oracle Database XE allows, Personal Edition may be a viable option for you.

This SOAP service retrieves a famous quote from a particular boxer, and that boxer's last name is requested using the exposed
getQuote() method. It's based on the boxing.wsdl file.

Creating the Boxing Server :

The boxing server is simple but practical. Extending this to this connect to database server would be a trivial affair.

When dealing with remote computers, you might want to know more about the server and domain information. Who owns them? What are the IP address? Where on the network are they located?You can use the following commands to know more detailes about the server.

• host : Look up hostname, IP address, and DNS info.
• whois : Look up the registants of internet domains.
• ping : CHeck if a remote host is reachable.
• traceroute : View the network path to a remote host.

From within a PHP development environment, you have several extentions at your disposal to access an Oracle database:

MagpieRSS is a powerful RSS parser written in PHP. It's freely available for download via http://magpierss.source.net/ and
is distributed under the GPL license. MagpieRSS offres develpers an amazingly practical and easy means for retrieving
and rendering RSS feeds, as you'll soon see. In addition, Magpie offers users a number of cool features.