I've run into a really silly problem with a Linux shell script. I want to delete all files with the extension ".bz2" in a directory. In the script I call rm "$archivedir/*.bz2" where $archivedir is a directory path. Should be pretty simple, shouldn't it? Somehow, it manages to fail with this error: rm: cannot remove `/var/archives/mo...
Hi I have 2 questions regarding linux directory permissions which I do not understand. I removed the execute flag from a folder named Documents. After that I cannot use cd on it but I still can do "ls Documents" from the parent directory and it still lists me the files in the Documents directory. I though the missing x-flag denies read...
Hi, this has been driving me crazy for the past 12 hours... I'm fairly new to Python, so pardon my ignorance. :) I have a module that I want to parse a file everytime a new file is created in a certain directory. For this, I'm trying to use pyinotify to setup a directory to watch for IN_CREATE kernel events, and fire the parse() method....
I play to self-study 6.001 with the video lectures and lecture handouts. However, I have some problems setting up MIT Scheme in Ubuntu (intrepid). I used package management and installed MIT-Scheme, but it's obviously the wrong version to use. It should be 7.5.1 instead of 7.7.90 I followed the instructions from this website (http://oc...
I have laptop with probably broken BIOS. C1E is not enabled and with Linux I get poor batery life (1-1,5h). C1E is not enabled because content of MSRC001_0055 is 0. I could rewrite it, but I don't know IoAddres value. So request for anyone with working C1E on AMD laptop, could you provide your content of MSRC001_0055? http://www.amd.com...
Apologies in advance for the possible flame thread, but that's not what I'm going for. I've only ever done serious development in Linux using C and C++, and I'm looking to take the plunge into Windows. I've been doing some reading and asking around, and it seems to me that .NET with C# is the way to go for developing commercial user-or...
Hi there; The company has a web-based punch card application, but my boss wants to make employees punch in and out using their fingerprint rather than sharable passwords. Is there any free/open source/commercial SDKs that can be used? With a Java or ActiveX based embeddable component? Thanks in advance. ...
On Linux with the GNU toolchain, I know how to control exported symbols from a shared library with a version script (gcc -Wl,--version-script=symbols.map), but I would like to list exported symbols on the command line instead. IOW, I would like the equivalent of link /EXPORT:foo from the MS toolchain. Is it possible ? EDIT: My quest...
I know this is more like a serverfault question than a stackoverflow question, but since serverfault isn't up yet, here I go: I'm supposed to move an application from one redhat server to another, and without very good knowledge of the internal workings of the application, how would I move the OpenLDAP database from the one machine to t...
I want to make a web service that run other people code locally... Naturally, I want to limit their code access to certain "sandbox" directory, and that they wont be able to connect to other parts of my server (DB, main webserver, etc) Whats the best way to do it? Run VMware/Virtualbox: (+) I guess it's as secure as it gets.. even if ...
I am a newbie Linux user who came from 10 years using windows OS, and developing in Microsoft languages. I want to have a good experience in Linux world and developing on it. First, I want to learn how to use this new OS, then how to start developing on it, I am interested in web applications, specially using Java/PHP because I have some...
Say I have 8b1f 0008 0231 49f6 0300 f1f3 75f4 0c72 f775 0850 7676 720c 560d 75f0 02e5 ce00 0861 1302 0000 0000, how can I easily get a binary file from that without copying+pasting into a hex editor? ...
I have recently been tasked with installing and configuring Squid Proxy server for filtering and monitoring our internal wireless network. I posted recently requesting guidance in selecting a Guidebook for this project and you guys did a grade job there. My next question is which Logfile Analysis tool does the stackoverflow community su...
I have some legacy C code that I recently compiled on Linux. On the original HPUX the application opens and closes multiple curses windows. On the Linux box it can handle one window, but if I close that window, it crashes the program with an error message of "Aborted". Any ideas? ...
We have a legacy linker that uses libc5, and due to several factors we only have the binary and not the source. Yes, version control would have saved us from our current problem... that is now in use for our full tool chain and product line, but this particular horse is long gone. This linker works on linux kernel 2.6.24, but on 2.6.25 ...
Hello, How do I start using Mono in Linux as a beginner when I want to switch from Visual Studio? Is there some easy way to install it like Visual Studio and get started? So far,with what I've seen,it looks complex to even get started. Installing and configuring Mono in linux is a lot of work right? or Is there some distro which I ca...
I'm working on a project where I need to find which functions get called in various Linux programs (written in C) given particular inputs. My current approach has been to compile a program with -pg (profiling option), run it, and find which functions get called by processing gprof's output. Only functions that are called at least once ap...
Soon i'll start working on a parallel version of a mesh refinement algorithm using shared memory. A professor at the university pointed out that we have to be very careful about thread safety because neither the compiler nor the stl is thread aware. I searched for this question and the answer depended on the compiler (some try to be so...
Recently, I came across Mono and MonoDevelop packages in Ubuntu linux. They claim to have a .NET runtime in accordance with CLI. Before installing the packages myself, I would like to know the following: How powerful is Mono? Can I develop GUI application for linux like developing WinForm applications for Windows. Is MonoDevelop IDE co...
I am trying to port a tool to osx which is designed to run on linux and freebsd. There is a case in the program where access to the EIP and EBP is need. This is done via the ucontext. So i added a case for __APPLE__ to place a suitable access to the ucontext struct. 9887 #if defined(__FreeBSD__) 9888 *paddr = uc->uc_mcontext....