linux

Options for Linux OS executable archive files - self installers

I am looking to create a web-project that is able to install with a program. The user should be able to download an archive file or tar file, run it (executable), and the setup script would ask for paths and configurable values and then unpack its 'payload' and sorting out the contents for deployment. This would be a Linux version of t...

i just want to use the iptables command in my c program.

i m designing a simple c code to call the iptables command according to the need. i just want to drop the packets from a particular ipaddress using my c code. thats why i have to use the iptables command according to input given. is it possible to call the command using c code? if it is then how??? thanks in advance.. ...

How to find all the file handles by a process programmatically?

I have a process "x" which uses "system" C function to start ntpd daemon. I observed that ntpd are passed the open file descriptors of "x". ntpd holds on to the file descriptors even after original file is deleted. for ex: Some log files used by "x" are rotated out after sometime, but "ntpd" has file handle opened for these deleted file...

GetLastInputInfo equivalent in Linux to detect last input time

Is there a GetLastInputInfo() equivalent that can be used in Linux? The intention is to detect the last input time (keyboard or mouse) of the user. Am using python to script the program. ...

how to know mysql my.cnf location

please tell me is there any mysql command to determine the my.cnf configuration file location just like phpinfo() to determine php.ini file. Thank you. ...

MP3 Resampling in Linux

Hello folks. Tonight I am working on my music collection. I would like to resample a large selection of my MP3's to 192Kb/s for my Zune. I know the obvious way to do this is a recursive function using lame to encode MP3 at 192 - but lame doesn't maintain the ID3 tags! Does anyone know of another option that will retain ID3 info? Thank...

Scripts like ideone.com and codepad.org

Are there any auto compiling scripts like the ones used at ideone.com and codepad.org available? (preferably open source, and which execute the code in a safe environment.) ...

Convert MFC Doc/View to?

My question will be hard to form, but to start: I have an MFC SDI app that I have worked on for an embarrassingly long time, that never seemed to fit the Doc/View architecture. I.e. there isn't anything useful in the Doc. It is multi-threaded and I need to do more with threading, etc. I dream about also porting it to Linux X Windows, b...

How to get the first numbers with SED linux

Hello i have this line... "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter" how can i get the first numbers until VGA with SED in Bash script? Thanks! ...

How to simulate Touch event in Linux/Mac/Windows?

I wanna to simulate touch event in Windows / Mac OS X or Linux (OS is not critical). ...

How to programmatically get info about storage drives in linux? (C# MONO)

I need programmatically get all storage drives available in a linux system with the following fields: Path File System (FAT32, NTFS, etc) Containing Physical Disk It need to support all common storage types: hard disks, Disk-On-Keys, CdRom, Dvd, etc. How to do this from C# to run well from MONO? ...

In a web app, is it wise to give log files ".txt" suffix?

I am building a logging mechanism in a web application. Being a Windows man, I tend to give files with textual content the .txt ending. The suffix is automatically registered to be opened in a text editor in any Windows environment, and is just a nice convention. The app is going to be redistributed, and running mostly on Linux, though...

Implementations of Mobile IP on linux

Are there any standard implementations of Mobile IP for Linux? If I want to support mobile IP for a network, what all needs to be done? If I have to write code from scratch, is it likely that a kernel module will suffice or I would have to make changes to the kernel code. I just need a bit of headstart to know where to begin. ...

How do you return stolen packets back to Netfilter

Let's say I have intercepted a packet from Netfilter and subsequently returned NF_STOLEN. At some point I want to re-inject that packet back to, in this case, the TCP stream it came from. I want to do this from Kernel space. So far I have been unable to find a way to do this. Thanks for the help. ...

Looping an executable to get the result from Python script

In my python script, I need to call within a for loop an executable, and waiting for that executable to write the result on the "output.xml". How do I manage to use wait() & how do I know when one of my executable is finished generating the result to get the result? How do I close that process and open a new one to call again the execut...

Get directory path by fd

I've run into the need to be able refer to a directory by path given its file descriptor in Linux. The path doesn't have to be canonical, it just has to be functional so that I can pass it to other functions. So, taking the same parameters as passed to a function like fstatat(), I need to be able to call a function like getxattr() which ...

Display contents of a file in the parent directory

I have a command which lists Weblogic instances directories on a server.I want to display contents of a file in the parent directory of each directory listed. An additional feature would be to display the name of the file in addition to displaying the contents /usr/ucb/ps auwwx | grep weblogic | tr ' ' '\n' | grep security.policy | gr...

Linux C++: how to profile time wasted due to cache misses?

I know that I can use gprof to benchmark my code. However, I have this problem -- I have a smart pointer that has an extra level of indirection (think of it as a proxy object). As a result, I have this extra layer that effects pretty much all functions, and screws with caching. Is there a way to measure the time my CPU wastes due to c...

getting data problem with MYSQL under linux

Hi all, Recently I started to use Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) instead of windows. I am working on a java web application with Spring, MYSQL with jpa. However, before to install linux I made a backup file from the database, then installed linux, installed the MYSQL Query Browser and Administrator tools, and using the Admin tool restored the back...

Strange client's address returned throug accept(..) function.

Hi everyone, I'm a socket programming newbie. Here's a snippet: struct sockaddr_storage client_addr; ... client_addr_size = sizeof(client_addr); client_socket = accept( server_socket, (struct sockaddr *)&client_addr, &client_addr_size ); ... result = inet_ntop( AF_INET, &((struct sockaddr_in *)&client_addr)->sin_addr, ...