MySQL Slave Failed to Open the Relay Log

Date October 20, 2008

This problem is a little tricky, there are possible fixes that MySQL website has stated. Sad to say, the one’s I read in the forum and site didn’t fix my problem. What I encountered was that the relay-bin from my MySQL slave server has already been ‘rotated’, meaning deleted from the folder. This happens [...]

Java 5 JDK and Jakarta Tomcat 5.5 in Ubuntu Server Installation

Date September 13, 2008

These are the steps I took to install Jakarta Tomkat 5.5 in conjunction with Java 2 SDK in Ubuntu server.

Login as root, you can also use “su” though I prefer to login as root.
apt-get install sun-java5-jdk

This will install Java 2 SDK (1.5), ubuntu will start downloading packages that are not found in your system.

apt-get [...]