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This month's answers created by:
[ Sayantini Ghosh, Amit Kumar Saha, Ben Okopnik, Kapil Hari Paranjape, René Pfeiffer, Rick Moen, Thomas Adam, Thomas Bonham ]...and you, our readers!
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Extracting 'vmlinuz'?
Amit Kumar Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:12:50 +0530
Hello,
Any of you know how I can extract my 'vmlinuz' to get the 'vmlinux' ?
Thanks, Amit
-- Amit Kumar Saha https://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com https://amitksaha.blogspot.com
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need help in writing parallel port driver for linux
mahesh war [b.maheshwer at gmail.com]
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:30 -0800
Hello sir,
This is B.Maheshwar from ASDLAB Bangalore,currently we are working on parallel port driver,i need your help .can please send if you are having article related to the parallel port driver for linux .
Thanking you.
Regards B.Maheshwar
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Multiple Authorized Keys
Thomas Bonham [thomasbonham at bonhamlinux.org]
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:33:30 -0700
Anyone know of a way to have multiple ssh authorized_keys files for host key authentication for different users. I am familiar with the usual practice of echoing all of the users keys into authorized_keys file but I am thinking in terms of if I have to revoke keys and disable user access. What I would like to do is have a setup similar to apache in that it can have files included in the conf directory. So this way I have a user name or identifying indicator of whose key is whose so I can revoke access as the necessity arises.
Thank you for all of your help.
Thomas
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[spammer@spammer.com] Need to get a quote on a linux email list ASAP -- can you recommend an email vendor?
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:09:31 -0400
Oh, this is rather special - in the highly dubious sense of the word. Spammers are now recognizing the value of Linux... for spamming campaigns. Wow.
Comments, anyone?
----- Forwarded message from Patrick Wang <pjwang@fastscale.com> -----
From: Spammer Spammer <spammer@spam.com> To: "editor@linuxgazette.net" <editor@linuxgazette.net> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:35:59 -0700 Subject: Need to get a quote on a linux email list ASAP -- can you recommendan email vendor?
Greetings,
We're conducting a time sensitive email marketing campaign and are looking to buy a high quality list and wanted to see if you could provide an email list for this campaign.
-Linux platform and more than 200 servers.
Anywhere in the US and level: IT directors or higher (including CIO, CTO)
If it can be even more granular to include RedHat Enterprise 4 or 5 as well as CentOS 4 or 5, we definitely can use that bit of information. Please call me with any introductions. will your list be opted-in and will we be provided proof for this? We're using Salesforce and VerticalResponse, and need to be able to use VerticalResponse.
Thanks in advance for any help or guidance you can provide.
-- Regards,
Spammer Spammer Senior Sales Manager
Spammer Technology 10101 Spammer Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95051
----- End forwarded message -----
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * https://LinuxGazette.NET *
Any one experienced with Iozone?
Amit Kumar Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:24:08 +0530
Hello,
I am currently trying to get some experience using 'Iozone' to obtain some I/O test results on my Linux 2.6 disk partitions. Subsequently, I would like to use my knowledge to do some analysis in a RAID project I am working on.
Do we have anyone here experienced with using the 'Iozone' tool (https://www.iozone.org/) ? It would be nice to know of your experiences.
Thanks, Amit
-- Amit Kumar Saha *NetBeans Community Docs Coordinator* Writer, Programmer, Researcher https://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com https://amitksaha.blogspot.com
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[ILUG] shell users/scripters, how do you script yours?
Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:36:44 -0700
Now, there is a BOfH!
----- Forwarded message from Rory Browne <rbmlist@gmail.com> -----
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:24:44 +0000 From: Rory Browne <rbmlist@gmail.com> To: Irish Linux Users Group <ilug@linux.ie> Subject: Re: [ILUG] shell users/scripters, how do you script yours?On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Rory Browne wrote: > > > Returning to the topic, I wouldn't worry too much about executing ls > > once. I think it only becomes a problem when you run an executable > > inside a loop that repeats a lot. > > Fair point, though the fact that a file called "some file" will be treated > as two files called "some" and "file" would be my concern. >
I have a procedure for dealing with when my users put spaces in their filenames.
find / -name '* *' -exec ls -l {} \;
Taking the third column in the output, you get the username, which you can then pipe to ps -u -o pid | xargs -i kill -9 {}
This gives you the list of users with spaces. Some manipulation with Awk, or Perl, can turn this into a list of usernames prefixed with userdel -r, which can then be piped to /bin/sh.
After you've finished deleting your accounts, you can then hire a hitman to ensure that they never receive accounts on any of your systems again.
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Linux Software RAID- comments/suggestions
Amit Kumar Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:17:01 +0530
Hello,
I started playing with Software RAID sometime back and have posted my notes here at https://amitksaha.blogspot.com/2008/03/software-raid-on-linux-part-1.html
Would be nice to have some feedback/comments.
Ben: Can i contribute to LG as an article?
Thanks, Amit
-- Amit Kumar Saha *NetBeans Community Docs Coordinator* Writer, Programmer, Researcher https://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com https://amitksaha.blogspot.com
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Linux
brad [netcom61 at yahoo.ca]
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:50:29 -0700
Hello - A real general question for you linux pros.
What is the serious linux geek's choice of distro? And Why?
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