Open the firewall for tomcat on Centos

Goto prompt:

>setup
choose “Firewall configuration”
choose “Customize”
choose “Other ports” 8080:tcp
choose “Ok”
>service tomcat6 restart

Install Tomcat 6 on CentOS 5.x

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget ‘http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage50.repo’
yum update
yum install tomcat6 tomcat6-webapps tomcat6-admin-webapps
service tomcat6 start

If you get a dependency then do this and do above again:

rpm -Uvh ‘http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/images/jpackage-utils-compat-el5-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm’

What UNix Shell am I using?

The shell for a user is in the /etc/passwd file for that user as the last field.

Or echo the ‘SHELL’ variable on the command prompt:

echo $SHELL