Month: December 2011

The following is a howto for installing Jboss under Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS.  The steps are most likely the same under any other Linux distro.

• Unpack your jboss.zip (or .tar)
• Jboss requires a ‘place’ to store data as it runs.  Out of the box it uses org.jboss.jdbc.HypersonicDatabase which is horribly inefficient and should never be used in a production system.  So we’ll set up MySQL such that jboss can write to it (installing and configuring MySQL is an

→ Continue reading “Installing Jboss 6.1.0-Final under RHEL or CentOS”

In most cases you will want to run JBoss as a non-privileged user.  For this example we will set up a jboss user (adding the user is an excersize for the user).  This example covers jboss-6.1.0-Final.

• Add $JAVA_HOME and $JBOSS_HOME environmental vars to .bash_profile for your jboss user.  $JAVA_HOME points to your install of the JDK and $JBOSS_HOME points to your jboss installation directory.
  

  JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64
  export JAVA_HOME
  PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
  export PATH
  

JBOSS_HOME=/opt/jboss/
export JBOSS_HOME

• Once you have done the basic JBoss

→ Continue reading “Configuring JBoss 6.x to Run as a Service Under RHEL and CentOS”

When attempting to install an HP LaserJet 4050 network printer under Win 7 64bit all you need to do is use the LaserJet 4200/4300 PCL6 naitive drivers that come with Windows.→ Continue reading “Installing HP LaserJet 4050 Network Printer under Window 7 64bit”