I prefer to use the Adobe AIR applications and I use/used the following on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10 and OEL5): (more…)
Apr
09
2009
09
2009
How to Distinguish Environment Variables from Different Shells in “bash”?
Every instance of the command line shell (thus every process) on Unix (and hence Linux) has a different set of environment variables. Actually different shell instances you may have the same variable, but set to different values.
If you are doing a system wide job and you are using shell scripting, you would like to know whether you are referring to the same or different local environment variables. The Bourne Again SHell (bash) provides a handy syntax for that. (more…)
Mar
31
2009
31
2009
How to Set/Check the Arguments Used with “ntpd” Service
On RHEL, OEL, CentOS and various other Linux distribution the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon can be run with various options. (more…)