RPM stands for “RedHat Package Manager” and is a sophisticated archiving format, allowing not only to pack a set of files and directories in a single archive, but also to install them in an easy-to-manage manner. While a Tape Archive (.tar) or a ZIP archive, with which you may be familiar with, simply packs files [...]
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Using Automake and Autoconf with C++
Published April 18th, 2008 in C/C++ Programming and automake. 1 CommentThe automake and autoconf tools can be used to manage C++ projects under Unix. They should save a lot of time compared to make and configure, while ensuring that your project is structured according to GNU standards.
However, it is difficult for beginners to get started. Hopefully, this tutorial will provide enough information for C++ programmers [...]
Creating a package from software can be an intimidating experience. Under some circumstances it has to be because the goal of the packaging task is to automate the building, installing, and uninstalling of your software for users who have no interest in becoming familiar with compilers, build tools, or shell debugging; things that you can [...]
by Rob Flickenger
Have you ever noticed how Apache annoyingly chops off filenames in directory listings? You can always make it show the full name by changing IndexOptions line in httpd.conf:
A sample .ssh/config file (note this must have chmod 600 rights)
## Server1 ##
Host 130.21.19.227
LocalForward 20000 192.168.0.66:80
LocalForward 22000 192.168.0.66:22
With the above “~/.ssh/config” file, after sshing into 130.21.19.227 it
is then possible to ssh into nearby computers directly.
$ ssh -l mchirico 130.21.19.227
$ scp -P 22000 authorized_keys* mchirico@localhost:.
$ ssh -l mchirico localhost -p 22000
For the [...]
With these powerful add-ons for iptables you can match strings or port ranges in iptables rules or even create a tar pit for network abusers.
Linux’s iptables allows powerful firewalls to be implemented at a minute fraction of the cost of many commercial offerings. Basic iptables firewalls are packet filters, which means they inspect the network [...]
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