Re: [NEWBIE]

2009-09-08 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
there is one more book by robert love, linux system programming, i think u should try that one out first and then u can try beginning linux programming by matthew and stones, wrox publicaiton. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Deven wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:01 +0530, Chandrakant K

Re: FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Teoh
Check this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/4/50 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/20/238 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/8/4 blocksize and pagesize always have to match for optimum performance, so max size for blocksize is pagesize. not sure why u want to have large blocksizecheck this: http://lkml.

Re: [NEWBIE]

2009-09-08 Thread Deven
Hi, On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:01 +0530, Chandrakant Kumar wrote: > Hello > > I'm a computer science student . I am studying operating systems in the > current semester , so i got a chance to study about linux. I want to > learn kernel programming. may you people please tell me what materials > and

Re: Video playing software

2009-09-08 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Niamathullah sharief wrote: > > Hi, > Can anyone tell me which is the best software to play from web cam? I am > having CREATIVE web cam. I want to capture video from there. Which is the > best one to play that video? Please help me > I need to remind you that your

Re: [NEWBIE]

2009-09-08 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Chandrakant Kumar wrote: > Hello > > I'm a computer science student . I am studying operating systems in the > current semester , so i got a chance to study about linux. I want to > learn kernel programming. may you people please tell me what materials > and books i

[NEWBIE]

2009-09-08 Thread Chandrakant Kumar
Hello I'm a computer science student . I am studying operating systems in the current semester , so i got a chance to study about linux. I want to learn kernel programming. may you people please tell me what materials and books i should go through. please provide me exact pointers to resources.

Video playing software

2009-09-08 Thread Niamathullah sharief
Hi, Can anyone tell me which is the best software to play from web cam? I am having CREATIVE web cam. I want to capture video from there. Which is the best one to play that video? Please help me

Re: Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread Bruno Novais
Hi, If you want to just set up persistent ip address across boots take a look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. Red Hat 9 Docs: As the system boots, it uses these files to determine what interfaces to bring up and how to configure them. These files are usually named ifcfg-, where refers to the

RE: Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread Vivek Subbarao
Thanks for the explanation. I understood your point. > -Original Message- > From: Bernd Petrovitsch [mailto:be...@firmix.at] > Sent: 08 September 2009 16:38 > To: Vivek Subbarao > Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > Subject: Re: Ip address assignment > > On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 01:10 -0700, Vi

Re: Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 01:10 -0700, Vivek Subbarao wrote: [...] > The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is the > behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses why > not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a drawback to > this? - It's not th

RE: Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread Vivek Subbarao
Hi, I am on CentOS 5.3 and i don’t find the files you have mentioned. Can you please give me a brief explanation or the command that actually will allow me to assign persistent(across reboots) addresses. Thank you, Vivek S > -Original Message- > From: kernelnewbies-bou...@nl.linux.org

Re: Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread microbit
Hi, On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:10:48 -0700, "Vivek Subbarao" wrote: > Hi, > > > > The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is the > behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses why > not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a drawback to thi

Re: Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread Shameem Ahamed
Please check, whether you have dhcp client running or not. dhcp will assign ips automatically. If so, disable dhcp. Shammi > >From: Vivek Subbarao >To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org >Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 1:40:48 PM >Subject: Ip address assignment > > > > > >Hi, > >The ip address ass

Re: Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread Gaurang Shastri
Hello Vivek, There is no drawback on ifconfig. Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as necessary. After that, it is usually only needed when debugging or when system tuning is needed. Also if you see the network serv

Ip address assignment

2009-09-08 Thread Vivek Subbarao
Hi, The ip address assigned through ifconfig is not persistent. Why is the behaviour so? Instead of editing files to add persistent addresses why not make ifconfig add persistent addresses? Is there a drawback to this? Thank you, Vivek S