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Unix Insider March 2001 Greg Nakhimovsky |
Generating and handling application traceback on crash Many of us have had to deal with application crashes that are hard or impossible to reproduce, especially at software developers' sites. Yet it can be difficult to fix the problem without reproducing it. Here are a few tools to help you generate a traceback... |
Unix Insider February 2001 Mo Budlong |
What happens when you throw the switch? Have you ever wondered how a computer knows what to do when you turn it on? Switching on the power causes it to boot, but what exactly does that mean? What sequence of functions does the operating system perform to get started? |
Unix Insider February 2001 Jim Mauro |
Understanding the Solaris socket filesystem The first in a two-part series about how sockets are implemented in Solaris. I'll cover the evolution of the socket filesystem and sockfs, and detail how the new implementation addresses some of the compatibility issues that existed with the previous version... |
Unix Insider January 2001 Peter Baer Galvin |
Giving away the secrets We delve into the many online sources of Solaris administration information: those that are helpful, those that are complete, and those that you can't live without... |
Unix Insider January 2001 Mo Budlong |
Just the FAQs Where do you go when you need quick Unix advice, and you're nowhere near your man pages? Now you can find them online at a variety of Websites, some of which are hyperlinked to make finding an answer even quicker. Here's a list of online man pages as well as resources for FAQs and how-tos... |
Unix Insider January 2001 Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center |
Six Unix OS flavors run the gamut Since its inception, Unix has evolved into many different versions. Are your eggs in the right basket? Here the InfoWorld technical director looks at six commercial Unix variants, and gives each an overall score to illustrate how healthy each is for work in the enterprise... |
Unix Insider December 2000 Peter Baer Galvin |
An evolution and a revolution Whether you're interested in understanding on a more advanced level how and why things work, or simply concerned with keeping your systems running smoothly, you'll find at least one of these books a useful and enjoyable read... |
Unix Insider December 2000 Jim Mauro |
Solaris 8 threads attributes A at Solaris 8's new features related to threads programming and thread APIs... |
Linux Journal January 2001 Mick Bauer |
The 101 Uses of OpenSSH: Part I This article covers ssh's background and architecture, how to build and/or install OpenSSH, how to use ssh as an encrypted replacement for Telnet, how to set some basic ssh configuration options and how to use scp for encrypted file transfers... |
Unix Insider December 2000 Mo Budlong |
Security basics, Part 2 Could you use a quick refresher course on binary numbers? Need an expert to clarify hexadecimal and octal notation? This month in Unix 101, a closer look at file attribute bits and modes... |
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