UNIX
Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.
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The NetBSD startup process is extensible, flexible, and a little daunting at first. This article looks at the configuration mechanisms used to enable or disable features, and compares NetBSD's...
GTK programming has almost never been this easy: IBM developer shares his skills, his enthusiasm, and his modified code for the SimpLIstic sKin interface (or SLIK). SLIK provides a great tool for...
SAP Web Application Server support high availability through the technique called switchover. This article describes the integration of DB2 Universal Database, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.70, and Sun...
If you're a database specialist interested in growing your DB2 Universal Database skills, there's a good chance that you've already developed database skills with another relational database product...
In this article, I will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. When I tried to compile php with oracle support on Solaris 2.6, I received lots of problems. After tedious search...
In this article, I will explain how it is possible to connect and query an MS SQL server (running under a Windows operating system) from php installed on a unix box. The same problem, in the case of...
The configuration system that PHP uses for installation is one of those nice, simple things in life that makes it rosy. At first it might seem a little confusing, but it's really very easy. So let's...
In last week's article, we looked at using the adduser utility to create user accounts. This week, we'll concentrate on the files that are modified when a user account is created.
In the past few days, I've been sorting through my piles of notes and organizing the security tips I've gathered from various resources over the years. I thought some of them might interest you, so...
IPsec is short for IP security, which is a manner of encrypting and authenticating Internet traffic all the way down to the IP packet level. That means that protocols such as SMTP, which are...
Those familiar with Java recognize the security concept of a sandbox. For those that aren't, it's the concept that everyone gets a unique, well-equipped sandbox to play in, and a person in one...
In today's Internet-centric computing world, networking components are a paramount feature of any system worth its salt. Easily falling into that category, OpenBSD contains strong network code and...
In my last article on BSD SNMP, we looked at installing the ucd-snmp package and using the snmpwalk tool. If you want to use the SNMP agent on your system, you need to set up the snmp daemon.
We've seen how SNMP can be used to gather just about any information from a host. You can interpret this data through a wide array of programs. The most popular are cricket and mrtg. Both are...
A friend called me at work the other day. Some time ago, I'd built him a FreeBSD system as an inexpensive e-mail and NAT box. He was sitting at the console looking at a "Changing root device to...
