Quick Premier on migration to Curl for a socket programmer
libcurl is quite powerful and allows many widely used protocols. In this post I discuss how a simple socket programmer could find his way using libcurl.
Tag: unix
Net-SNMP configuration for non-root AgentX application
By using a TCP Socket one can allow a non-root AgentX application/agent to connect to Net-SNMP masteragent. But this should be used for development purpose only...
DST does not influence UnixTime or Seconds since Epoch
Seconds since Epoc or Unixtime is ever increasing value and it remains stable (except for leap second). Daylight Savings changes does not affect it.
Capture local network traffic for multi-homed host
If both end-points of a socket are on local system, network traffic will be seen on loopback interface even if applications are using non-loopback interface (e....
Rename network interface on ubuntu
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules defines the name for network interfaces.
bash : grep for pattern from certain location in the file
Using dd, the file can be sliced and then grep can be applied for the pattern on that slice.
bash : search multiple file patterns using single find command
Using a combination of patterns with "-o" and/or -"a" (which OR the pattern or AND the pattern) in find command, one can search for various patterns or combine ...
VirtualBox : Use Raw Disk to load Windows under Linux
Using VBoxManage and install-mbr commands, one can use raw disk with a virtual machine under VirtualBox. Here I discuss how to load a partition that has Windows...
Howto rollover a file when size exceeds using unix find
Using -size and -exec flags of find command, one can easily find when the logfile has grown above the threshold and move it to another name in one shot.
Unix : find affected by current working directory
Many Unix variants (including latest Solaris 11 Express) use a version of find that first looks for current working directory. And if that current working direc...