I have a new 1 TB drive coming in tomorrow. What is the best way to divide this space for a development workstation? The biggest problem I think I'm going to have is that some partitions (probably /usr) will become to small after a bit of use. Other partitions are probably to huge. The swap drive for example is currently 2GB (2x 1GB RAM...
I develop C++ applications in a Linux environment. The tools I use every day include Eclipse with the CDT plugin, gdb and valgrind. What tools do other people use? Is there anything out there for Linux that rivals the slickness of Microsoft Visual Studio? ...
I've created a script that runs every night on my Linux server that uses mysqldump to back up each of my MySQL databases to .sql files and packages them together as a compressed .tar file. The next step I want to accomplish is to send that tar file through email to a remote email server for safekeeping. I've been able to send the raw s...
I am running a number of SSL-encrypted websites, and need to generate certificates to run on these. They are all internal applications, so I don't need to purchase a certificate, I can create my own. I have found it quite tedious to do everything using openssl all the time, and figure this is the kind of thing that has probably been don...
I have a process in linux that's getting a segmentation fault. How can I tell it to generate a core dump when it fails? ...
What methods are there for automatically getting a stack trace on Unix systems? I don't mean just getting a core file or attaching interactively with GDB, but having a SIGSEGV handler that dumps a backtrace to a text file. Bonus points for the following optional features: Extra information gathering at crash time (eg. config files). ...
I am running a Qt 4.5 commercial snapshot and want to use a plugin that i downloaded (it's a .so file) in my QWebView. Is there a specific location where I need to place this file? Can I grab it using the QWebPluginFactory? ...
Typically in a large network a computer needs to operate behind an authenticated proxy - any connections to the outside world require a username/password which is often the password a user uses to log into email, workstation etc. This means having to put the network password in the apt.conf file as well as typically the http_proxy, ftp_...
Hi, I'm writing an application that on some stage performs low-level disk operations in Linux environment. The app actually consists of 2 parts, one runs on Windows and interacts with a user and another is a linux part that runs from a LiveCD. User makes a choice of Windows drive letters and then a linux part performs actions with corre...
I asked a question a while ago about learning to use Linux, and since then I've installed CentOS 5 on a local machine to match my host. Installation was fine, and I'm up and running, but I can't setup it up to use 2 monitors (Dual Heads) and I just can't cope without 2 monitors. So is anyone using CentOS with 2 monitors? And if so HOW?...
Does anyone know how bash handles sending data through pipes? cat file.txt | tail -20 Does this command print all the contents of file.txt into a buffer, which is then read by tail? Or does this command, say, print the contents of file.txt line by line, and then pause at each line for tail to process, and then ask for more data? The...
I have configured a server with Centos 5.2, and am now working out a backup strategy. I plan on using Amanda as the backup application. Additionally, I am leaning towards using some USB hard drives for backup storage. I will be swapping out one of the Hard Drives each week for an offsite back-up. Does anyone know whether it is possibl...
If I call os.stat() on a broken symlink, python throws an OSError exception. This makes it useful for finding them. However, there are a few other reasons that os.stat() might throw a similar exception. Is there a more precise way of detecting broken symlinks with Python under Linux? ...
I'm working on linux, trying to get the serial port to work. I know /dev/ttyS0 is a serial port, but what is /dev/ttys0? ...
Has anyone had any success running two different web servers -- such as Apache and CherryPy -- alongside each other on the same machine? I am experimenting with other web servers right now, and I'd like to see if I can do my experiments while keeping my other sites up and running. You could say that this isn't so much a specific-softwa...
What is the simplest way to install memcached on CentOS for someone new to the world of Linux? What is the best way to enable it for Apache and PHP ...
I want to expand my programming horizons to Linux. A good, dependable basic toolset is important, and what is more basic than an IDE? I could find these SO topics: Lightweight IDE for linux and What tools do you use to develop C++ applications on Linux? I'm not looking for a lightweight IDE. If an IDE is worth the money, then I will...
What should i use to code Classic ASP under Linux. I have really tried to use Emacs and Vim but I don't have the time to learn them. What i'm looking for is: Syntax highlighting Code Browser (Ctags) Preferably som sort of code insight Something like Ultra Edit or E-texteditor. ...
I'd like to gain better knowledge of operating system internals. Process management, memory management, and stuff like that. I was thinking of learning by getting to know either linux or BSD kernel. Which one kernel is better for learning purposes? What's the best place to start? Can you recommend any good books? ...
I recently bought an Asus Eee PC 901, on which I am running Ubuntu linux. I was mucking around in C on my old (larger) laptop, and I want to continue to do so on the Eee. However, Anjuta - the IDE that I was using - is not very usable with the Eee's resolution of 1024x600. What with the status pane at the bottom, and the giant toolbar...