Links tagged “linux”

0pointer.de

Explains systemd socket activation and how a daemon accepts listening sockets pre-created by the init system, allowing services to start in parallel.

0pointer.de

Second part of the series, walking through adding socket activation and other on-demand activation modes to the CUPS printing server.

0pointer.de

Third part of the series, covering how programs submit log messages to the systemd journal, from syslog() and stdout to the native structured logging API.

en.wikipedia.org

Encyclopedia article on OpenEmbedded, the recipe-based build framework and cross-compile environment used to assemble Linux distributions for embedded devices.

yoctoproject.org

Home of the Yocto Project, an open source collaboration whose tools build custom Linux distributions and SDKs for embedded hardware, whatever the architecture.

sourceware.org

GPL instrumentation infrastructure that runs scripted probes inside a live Linux kernel to gather diagnostic data without recompiling or rebooting.

seclists.org

Tavis Ormandy's Full Disclosure post on CVE-2010-3847: glibc's dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in LD_AUDIT for setuid binaries, which a hardlink trick turns into local root.

help.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu community wiki page on the Xen type-1 hypervisor, covering package installation, host network configuration and creating guest virtual machines.

code.google.com

Original home of xpra, screen for X — detach a running X application from one display and reattach it elsewhere; the code now lives in the archived partiwm repository.

pixelbeat.org

Cheat sheet of GNU screen keyboard shortcuts and command-line options — windows, splitting, detaching, copy mode and scrollback.

forums.debian.net

sudo dpkg -i

forum.ubuntu-fr.org

sudo apt-get -f install

linuxjournal.com

Walkthrough of building a self-extracting installer by appending a tar.gz payload to a shell script that strips itself, decompresses the archive and runs the install step.

linuxgazette.net

Linux Gazette introduction to Vim for readers who already know the basics, collecting mnemonics and the slightly more advanced commands that speed up everyday editing.

linuxgazette.net

A walkthrough of building a Linux process that even root cannot stop, using a loop-mounted ISO, an inittab respawn entry and a patched init.

enseirb.ll.free.fr

Site SPIP commun au club Logiciels Libres de l'ENSEIRB et à GProg, mêlant docs techniques et annonces d'événements autour du logiciel libre.