"fork() creates a new process and the child process starts to execute from the current state of the parent process". This is the thing I know about fork() in LINUX. So, accordingly the following code : int main() { printf("Hi"); fork(); return 0; } needs to print "Hi" only once as per the above. But on executing the above in l...
In Linux, how can I get a list of files currently open in program X? (Specifically, I'm on Fedora, and the program is Zend Studio, but I assume there's a general answer.) ...
I have few long commands that I will be using on a day to day basis. So I though it would be better to have a bash script where I could pass arguments, thus saving typing. I guess this is the norm in Linux but I am kind of new to it. Could someone show me how to do it. A example is the following command cut -f <column_number> <filename>...
So I run the apt-get install and then any program. The first part runs fine, but then reaches the "Setting up libuuid1 (1.41.3-1) ..." and locks up. Any ideas what could be causing this stop, i have checked the log files and there is nothing there. ...
Some solution could probably be applicable to Windows, however I am not familiar with the Windows OS, so this will be Linux focused. As far as I understand, Unix file system all have the concept of inodes, which is where the file system metadata and the "file" is stored. Thus I am wondering if it is possible to use the inode number wit...
Anybody knows what changes are necessary for a server to work with xinetd ? The server being a .NET mailserver that runs on Linux. See the bottom of this post for reference: Lumisoft Mailserver Forum Post Note: xinetd, not mono-service. [x]inetd is an internet superserver. A superserver starts a server service on demand. (As opposed t...
I'm doing print statements in python. I'm executing my script like so: python script.py > out.log nohup & The print statements are not all showing up in out.log but the program is finishing ok. That line of code is in an .sh file I execute by doing ./script.sh Update: The log does get all the data but not until a certain # of lines ...
Hi, I have a configure script where I need to pass an option that contains a comma. Now if it weren't for the comma I could put some "s around to make configure recognize the string as a whole: ./configure --with-arpack="-Wl,-rpath,/my/path -L/my/path -larpack" But the commas are interpreted as option delimiters, so the script only ...
Can anyone point me out to a project out there that I can download and run it and it would load / stress test itself and then provide me with reports? I want the project to be as big as it can and to involve as many components in java as it can, also i need it free... or to some very good already made results over the web that I can alre...
I don't have much of an interest in designing guis (too much work), and I wanna know how it is that programs like vim, and greed work, how is it that vim can modify it's standard out without printing it all out again?, and I often see the output from terminal programs in bright colors, is there some sort of markup language that tells the...
I run GTK2 applications under linux, on my apple computer. I would like to know how to modify the global accelerator settings. In particular, I would like to copy paste using Command-c Command-v instead of Ctrl-c Ctrl-v. Has anybody done this? Is there a config file somehwere that contains the accelerator assignments? ...
I want to define a constant inside a function that could be used outside the function's scope. function section { variable = "Hello" } echo variable Is this possible? ...
lets say there is one very big file on some server and i just want to download first 1MB. How can I do it on Linux ? ...
hi i want write a program in c by inotify to a system with kernel 2.6.9 but 2.6.9 dosnt support inotify, since i update kernel to version 2.6.18, when i want to compile my program error say:undefined reference toinotify_init'` what can i solve that? glibc version 2.3.4 gcc version 3.4.4 ...
Hopefully this is a very simple question. I have a makefile pattern rule that looks like this: %.so : %.f %.pyf f2py -c -L${LAPACK_DIR} ${GRASPLIBS} -m $* $^ ${SOURCES} --opt='-02' --f77flags='-fcray-pointer' >> silent.txt I want the makefile to build a number of .so files, so I tried to get it to build two files (radgrd_py.so and...
Linux utilities like sed, awk and other shell scripting features are awesome and life becomes a lot harder when I am developing on windows and cant use any of these. People suggest to use cygwin for those who want the linux like tools under windows. But I feel cygwin will be an overkill for someone who only wants to use the handful comm...
I'm looking for some backup solution. My request is pretty simple: Source - FTP credentials (ftp://user:[email protected]/dir1/dir2) Destination on local HDD (/var/backup/server-tld) Possibility of packing to archive (tar.gz/zip) Plan this "script" as a cron job with defined period (e.g. once a day) I know, that all this can be done us...
is there any option to sendmail linux command on particular time . I want make or sending email on particular time . ...
Hello all, this is my first post here. I want to access the whole hard disk directly from a C program. There's no FS on it and never's gonna be one. I just want to open /dev/sda (for example) and do I/O at the block/sector level of the disk. I'm planning to write some programs for learning C programming in the Linux environment (...
I am reading the book "Professional Assembly Language", with sample code written for Intel IA-32 processors. Assembler used is GNU Assembler. Where can I find this Assembly reference? For example, writing Assembly for Windows, I can find the reference in Intel WEB site. What about Linux and GNU Assembler? ...