oracle-linux+setup

=Oracle Linux 5 Setup= Main Menu

Oracle VM VirtualBox
I chose to install a virtual machine for this project. Creating a partition on my hard drive and configuring Linux was not something I wanted to tackle. Based on several recommendations I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.8 on my Windows 7 machine. Oracle VM VirtualBox is cross-platform virtualization software for x86-based systems and is available as Open Source.



To simplify the setup process I used a pre-built developer VM provided by Oracle. The Database App Development VM comes with Oracle Linux 5 (based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5). It also includes the Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition and several additional development tools. These pre-built appliances can be downloaded and installed as a single unit.

MySQL Database
The developer VM provided by Oracle comes with the Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition installed. For this project I chose to download and install the MySQL database instead. The authentication module I will be working with is the pam_mysql module. This module allows authentication through a MySQL database.


 * **Download latest release of MySQL**
 * MySQL-client-community-5.1.61-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
 * MySQL-devel-community-5.1.61-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
 * MySQL-server-community-5.1.61-1.rhel5.i386.rpm


 * **Install downloaded package**
 * Use rpm command to install the files


 * **Perform post-install activities**
 * Change root password
 * Remove the anonymous user
 * Disallow root login from remote machines


 * **Verify the MySQL installation**
 * **mysql -V** command
 * Connect to the database using root user: **mysql -u root -p**


 * **Perform basic database commands**
 * Create new database
 * Create tables
 * Insert/update data in tables

@http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/07/howto-install-mysql-on-linux/ @http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMySQL.html
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