General Linux

Are incremental CD-bakups possible?
On my old system, I've only just figured out how to backup a tree by:-- mkisofs -R /mnt/p6/usr/lib | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=2 dev=0,0 - Obviously I'd rather not have small [10% of CD capacity] dir-trees on each CD, so I'd want to serially write several dir-trees to the same CD. Apparently the above instruc... 31 Dec 2009 16:32

linux specifics for unix pro - where to learn from?
Hi all, having worked with commercial unixes for the last 8 years, I need to brush up my linux skills. In short: I want to learn about linux specifics like devicemapper multipath, udev, /sys and the like. Not about unix essentials like processes, shell, etc. Which books or online ressources can you recom... 16 Dec 2009 19:05

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 15 December 2009 Perl Seminar NYC: Pratik Dave on Map/Reduce and Eating and Drinking
<blockquote what="official perlsemny announcement" edits=""> To: ny(a)lists.pm.org From: James E Keenan <jkeen(a)verizon.net> Subject: perlsemny + more Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:36:11 -0500 Rumor has it that if we finish up early enough tomorrow night, we will adjourn to a yet-to-be-disclosed locati... 15 Dec 2009 14:27

New game XIX for linux (Version of 1980s game QIX)
Hi I've written a version of the 1980s game QIX for linux (and it seems to work on FreeBSD too). Its C++ source and doesn't require any special graphics libraries, just libX11.so and libXext.so which are standard on every distribution. http://www.ogham.demon.co.uk/zips/xix100.tgz ... 14 Dec 2009 05:31

Java Updates in Linux
I currently dual-boot Ubuntu 8.04 on one computer (XP) and 9.04 (Vista) on another. I keep the latest JRE on both. It seems that a new update gets pushed out about twice a year. Every time this happens, the result is that Java is unusable in Firefox until I use the command line to unlink the existing symbolic link ... 13 Dec 2009 16:29

Compiling an optimized kernel for VirtualBox or real machines
Hello, After searching some of the news groups, google groups and, or relevant mailing lists I'm asking it here in a hope that someone might also be thinking and, or working on to compile an optimized Linux kernel based on a given inventory of all the devices installed on a machine and, or a set of machines in a... 15 Dec 2009 16:42

Re (2): HOW2 implement a daemon?
In article <pan.2009.12.12.07.55.24.522793(a)deadspam.com>, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote: no.top.post(a)gmail.com wrote: PSS. I just did: 'top > /root/top' But '/root/top' is accumulating instead of renewing ?! Yes, it is supposed to do that. command > file m... 23 Dec 2009 10:51

HOW2 implement a daemon?
I've got a nice system that run 'on top of' linux and which can read/write linux files too. In order to still be able to see the other system's display, instead of switching to linux when I 'run' some simple linux commands I could perhaps eg. 1. write to a 'known special' file: "ls /usr/*" 2. which would, via so... 22 Dec 2009 09:13

wget - which port number(s)?
Hi, Which outgoing ports do I need to open in my firewall to be able to use wget from a debian box? regards geir ... 9 Dec 2009 03:22

loading modules automatically: automating modprobes
I know how to load modules using modprobe. But these are lost on a reboot. How does one make this permanant? e.g. for IPMI I usually load: modprobe ipmi_devintf modprobe ipmi_si modprobe ipmi_msghandler How do I make this happen automatically on each reboot? Of course, I can just put it in some shell in... 9 Dec 2009 19:59