Re: I cannot understand the source code

2001-07-05 Thread Kervin Pierre
Hi, (i) Do a search for "linux kernel" on http://www.bn.com/ (ii) Pick one http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=linux+kernel (i) Do a search for "linux assembly" on http://www.bn.com/ (ii) Pick one http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=linux+assembl

Re: Books on XFree86

2001-05-15 Thread Kervin Pierre
Two really, really good books for shell programming (i) Portable shell programming - Bruce Blinn - ISBN 0134514947 This book is a program by example book and is the best shell script reference I've come across. It covers bourne shell, ie. /bin/sh, which is as far as I know is a subset of bash.

Re: Traffic origins

2001-05-08 Thread Kervin Pierre
I guess this is the continuation of the last email : ) You need a network sniffer. If you have access to X then ethereal [ http://www.ethereal.com ] is nice. Ethereal also comes with tethereal, which is a command line sniffer. For the command line tcpdump is popular. Both ethereal and tcpdump

Re: compilation error.

2001-05-08 Thread Kervin Pierre
Tom Beer wrote: > you don't provide information for the compiler how > and what to compile. In other words you need a make file... > [ as usual, I could be entirely wrong on this... ] I don't think so. Usually when you don't have a makefile in the directory, make prints something like... "make:

Re: Hight traffic

2001-05-08 Thread Kervin Pierre
How about running a sniffer like ethereal [ http://www.ethereal.com ] to see exactly what's going across, destination addresses and source addresses. Ethereal will give you a real time break down of your traffic as well. -Kervin System Administrator wrote: > > Hi, > > I know this is probably

Re: How to tar and gzip a directory?

2001-04-26 Thread Kervin Pierre
There's a detailed discussion of this at http://www.backupcentral.com/native-backup-utils.html on that page there is a comparison chart http://www.backupcentral.com/native-comparison.html The excerpts are from the oreilly unix backup book. The start of the excerpts is here... http://www.backup

Re: oscilloscope applications

2001-04-22 Thread Kervin Pierre
you can also search http://www.freshmeat.net/ When that doesn't work I usually try google. http://www.google.com/ turns up these guys http://www.etcsk.com/main.html -Kervin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone know of an open software or inexpensive application to use the > computer as an osc

Re: Backup Software

2001-04-17 Thread Kervin Pierre
Tried Amanda? http://www.amanda.org/ If you setup is simple, check out http://www.backupcentral.com/mytools.html and http://www.backupcentral.com/toc-excerpts.html for scripts and instruction. -Kervin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > i am looking for a good reliable backup software

Re: Compressing a device ? - backup link

2001-03-30 Thread Kervin Pierre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > backup, you are better off to use tar to save the contents and structure > than to just make a copy of the raw image. > Kinda offtopic but, There's a lot of good info in online excepts of the "unix backup and recovery" o'reilly book at http://www.backupcentral.com