linux

Slow response from getaddrinfo on EC2

I have an ec2 instance used as LDAP server with the following example DNS names assigned by Amazon: Public DNS: ec2-123-231-312-132.compute-1.amazonaws.com Private DNS: ip-10-11-12-13.ec2.internal The instance has 123.231.312.132 public IP address and 10.11.12.13 private IP address respectively. I have also set external dns records ...

Extending homework testing platform to include code analysis (C/C++)

I'm maintaining/developing a platform for homework testing. It's mostly automatic. What I need to add now is code analysis. I need to check the code for specific constructs. For example: Does the file main.cpp contain a class named user with a const method get_name()? Is there some tool out there that would allow me to do suc...

network bonded machine has occasional ping problems outbound but never inbound

Hello, We have a Suse Linux 11 server with network bonding which we named DBSERVER. With the following script running on another similar machine named CLIENTMACHINE, we observe no errors when pointing the script toward DBSERVER: (begin script) #!/bin/bash # parameter: IP address if [ ${#*} != 1 ] then echo "Need one paramet...

How is memory compression achieved.?

How is memory compression achieved.? What is compcache..? How do I choose an appropriate technique for my system (its a telecom sw - running on SMP LINUX (from Windriver system)+Cavium Octeon processor)). There is just a physical memory of 2 GB with no swap. ...

ImageMagick conflict on Ubuntu running webbrick

Hi all I am trying to install refinerycms, a Ruby on Rails CMS on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I run rails server and I get the following exception: carcher@carcher-laptop:~/Code/tgc$ rails server => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.0.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server Ex...

UDP IP Fragmentation and MTU

I'm trying to understand some behavior I'm seeing in the context of sending UDP packets. I have two little Java programs: one that transmits UDP packets, and the other that receives them. I'm running them locally on my network between two computers that are connected via a single switch. The MTU setting (reported by /sbin/ifconfig) is ...

workling client stops in a few seconds after start

Hi I'm trying to use RabbitMQ instead of Starling I've configured my app and everything seems to be fine but when i run 'script/ workling_client start' it starts to work and ends in a few seconds and I can't get why My app works perfectly with Starling I'm using Fedora 13 ruby 1.8.7 rails 2.3.8 mongrel(configured according to http://gi...

How to get user defined system colors on Linux?

How do I get correct colors associated with my KDE or Gnome profile on Linux? java.awt.SystemColor seems to give me root (?) account colors, at least colors definitions doesn't match my settings (whereas on Windows everything is fine). Are there any APIs that let me access current user's Window Manager color settings from Java? ...

Packaging python applications with PyQt and PyQwt (for linux only)

This is a follow on from my question here, I think I will have to look at a different method. I'm wanting to package my python program with some of it's dependencies. I'm aware of tools like cx freeze or bb freeze, but as you can see in the linked question they have issues for my situation. I don't want my users to have to install my ...

Alternative to /proc/PID/exe symlink for retrieving another processes full path via PID

I'm looking for a alternative method to reading the /proc/PID/exe symbolic link in which to obtain the full path of a process in Android/Linux. The reason being is that on Android, /proc/PID/exe for any process other than your own or 'self' seem to have restricted (permission denied) access. I have looked into the following as well - ...

whats are *.so.*.* libs

When I do ls -l in /usr/lib I see lots of libs with "sameName.so.*.*" extension. What is the significance of these extensions? Why softlinks are created? what are their use? One example will help a lot in understanding. ...

ODBC error when connecting to Informix DB with mono installed

I have recently installed Mono on our Fedora Linux system so that we are able to run ASP.NET applications on it. I was able to get this part up and running, but the problem is we use a Informix DB and Mono seems to stop the ODBC from working. Have anyone any experience of getting an ODBC to connect to an Informix DB with Mono instal...

Linux 64 bit porting issue

Hi, I am working on Linux 64 bit porting and we used a lots of long variable in our code. Now on Linux 64 long is 64 bit. We are facing problem in the bits manipulation code. I heard there are options LLP64(long as 32) and ILP64(long as 64). But I don’t know the compiler option for it(g++). I have few more doubts, If I compile with o...

Implicit Rules in Makefile

hi i want to do a Makefile in linux that will take all the .cpp files in the dir compile them and create one .o file that i can active how i can do it with Implicit Rules thanks mati ...

copy and call function

I'd like to copy and call a function, but the code below segfaults when calling the buffer. What do I have to change? (Linux, x86) #include <string.h> #include <malloc.h> #include <stdio.h> int foo () { return 12; } void foo_end () {} int main () { int s = (unsigned long long) foo_end - (unsigned long long) foo; int (*f) () = (int...

Regex (grep) for multi-line search needed

Hi all I'm running a grep to find any *.sql file that has the word select followed by the word customerName followed by the word from. This select statement can span many lines and can contain tabs and newlines. I've tried a few variations on the following: $ grep -liIr --include="*.sql" --exclude-dir="\.svn*" --regexp="select[a-zA-...

require_once of certain file works on local windows, not on dev linux machine

Hi, I'm trying to integrate Goutte http://github.com/fabpot/Goutte into my existing symfony 1.4 project and am running into a problem. I have everything working on my local wamp server, here are the two lines in question: require_once('path_to_goutte.phar'); $client = new Goutte\Client(); Now to debug I've put a print statement befor...

how to display all lines from one that match regex in linux.

I want to display all lines from one which match regular expression if I have a file foo bar123 baz12435 lorem ipsum dolor sit amet this display-from baz[0-9]* < file sould return (It doesn't matter if it display matched line or not) lorem ipsum dolor sit amet How can I do this in Linux (with sed, awk or grep) ...

Unix shell script: Update timestamp on all sub-directories and sub-files, including those with spaces

Here's what I'm trying to achieve. I have a directory with over 4200 sub-files/sub-directories, all of which need to be set to a certain timestamp. This is a problem because many of them have whitespaces and other weird characters. First thing I tried: touch $(find .) Won't work because of the spaces. It will update the timestamps o...

Why does backtrace not contain Objective-C symbols regardless of -rdynamic?

Update: I'm working with the GNU-runtime on Linux. The problem does not occur on MacOS with the Apple-runtime. Update 2: I compiled the GNU-runtime on MacOS and build the example with it. The error does not occur on MacOS with the GNU-runtime. I would say the problem is the glibc (since backtrace and backtrace_symbols are glibc extensio...