Posix In Egypt Positively in Egypt

so now the judge has ruled, the fat lady has sung and while the dust is still settling, one thing is unmistakably clear. novell owns unix. then what?

what's novell next step going to be? sweep it under the rug again for another 10 years? thats basically what they did the last time round and thats how this problem came along. novell kept quiet for the first year or so then BOOM! "hey sco, we own unix!".

it turns out that linux kernel 2.6 uses udev to manage devices on modern linux systems. and no u cant just use mknod to create that device in /dev.

what follows is the quick and dirty (and wrong apparently but gets it up and running) way of creating a /dev/device on a modern linux system.

before we begin a summary of steps to follow:

this is just such important news that i had to repeat: Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!

and there is more news over at Google News

its good tsm practice to backup your tsm database (the db2 database on your tsm server that holds the activity log et al) on a reqular basis. what you see below is a script that the tsm support guys gave me that i beautified up with some descriptive comments. feel free to use it if u see fit or post comments if you have any tweaks and improvements.

the history command is amazing little tool in the bash shell. when you type the command "history" it gets you .. the history of all the commands you typed in at the prompt. but thats not the only trick it does. you up and down arrow keys also work to let you view your historical commands.

more advanced tricks are covered by this article called "How to get the best out of the history command in GNU/Linux"

i prefer to use a gui for when it comes to iptables and while there is firestarter and firewall builder i prefer guarddog. guarddog is an iptables gui for kde.

its nice, simple, helpful and gets the job done!

so without any further ado i present the rpm for guarddog for fedora 7 and the src.rpm for it too!

lets face it, there are too many webmasters out there who dont know there is more than 1 web browser out there.

so we, the linux community have to come up with new and innovative ways around these problems. one of the problems is that webpages are written with core web fonts. they are available on the net from microsoft but they are not redistributable. meaning that you and i have to go to microsoft and download them ourselves.

my job as a sys admin requires that i telnet or ssh to a remote machine on a regular basis. however, sometimes, i also need a gui. (i get tired of hitting esc+3 all the time!)

so i created the two scripts below:

Xstart.sh is the xdmcp version of the scripts.

if you look at it, i have used $RANDOM. whats that for? well, instead of telling it to use display :1 coz :0 is busy, i m telling it to use $RANDOM. imagine if :1 is also busy or :2. ok, i took the lazy way out, so sue me! i use the scripts to logon to CDE on the AIX machines

seriously folks, i dont know how to make an rpm. i m not ashamed, i have attached an rpm i built to this article. its an rpm of krpmbuild. i used krpmbuild to create the rpm of krpmbuild.

ya ya enough of the cryptic talk. basically i downloaded the tar ball, extracted it, ran ./configure;make; make install and used the newly created binary to package itself.

so whats krpmbuilder? here is the sourceforge summary:

if you are reading this, it means you intend to configure accurate time on your aix machine. and the method you have decided to use is ntp or network time protocol. you have decided not to use sntp (simple network time protocol) or even calling your local telco to listen to the clock. no, you want accurate time to the millisecond.