Tag: Linux
Getting Started with Inotify
Inotify is a Linux kernel feature that provides an event-driven framework for applications to monitor changes in the filesystem. This article demonstrates how to...
Tracking the DNA of Your Android Code
In my previous article, we explored a process that developer teams can follow to manage the source code for software-related product development, using the...
Kernel Debugging Using Kprobe and Jprobe
Debugging is like plumbing; it involves fixing difficult, hidden problems -- so, besides the vital experience, both debuggers and plumbers must have a specialised...
Confidently Deploy .NET Applications on Linux+Mono with Delphi Prism
This article aims to address the main problems that developers currently endure in developing and deploying cross-platform .NET enterprise applications to the Linux platform.
Since...
Saving Private GRUB: Remotely Restoring MBR on an Enterprise Server
Corporate hardware systems differ from their conventional desktop counterparts primarily because they have a number of interesting features. For example, they provide an ability...
Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’: What’s New?
With its extremely long release cycle (this one took two years), Debian 6.0 Squeeze was rolled out on February 6th, amidst jokes like, "See...
KGDB with VirtualBox: Debug a Live Kernel
Debugging an application live has always been easy for application developers, but debugging a live kernel has never been a simple option for kernel...
Advanced Nmap: Scanning Firewalls Continued
The previous article detailed methods to scan an IPCop-based firewall in a test environment. The scan output revealed several open ports, which could lead...
Kernel Development & Debugging Using the Eclipse IDE
This article is targeted at Linux newbies, kernel developers, and those who are new to Eclipse. It deals with development, building and debugging of...
Advanced Nmap: Scanning Firewalls
After four articles on Nmap , which explained a number of command-line options for scan technique specification, target specification, port specifications, host discovery, evasion...
