Linux is not Unix, but it is a Unix-like operating system. Linux system is derived from Unix and it is a continuation of the basis of Unix design. Linux distributions are the most famous and healthiest example of the direct Unix derivatives. BSD (Berkley Software Distribution) is also an ...
Ensure that the drive does not contain any useful or important data because everything will be erased. When you have chosen the drive, click on the Next button. Step 4. When you're finished, click "Create" to have Windows format your USB drive and copy the data you need. This ...
When someone mentions a "swap file", the first thing that comes into your mind might be the kind of file that you would create to increase the swap space on a Unix system. Think swapfile and the swapon command. But there's another kind of swap file that comes into play, generally whe...
The kernel crashes due to a corruption on a freelist pointer due to a possible kmalloc-64 slab use-after-free/corruption. Veritas vxfs/vxio modules are installed and loaded. Raw [221204.168656] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000100000189 [221204.674820] IP: [<ffffffff8722868...
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Lynis is a security auditing tool for systems running Linux or a UNIX derivative like *BSD and Mac OS X. It is host-based, meaning you have to run it on the system itself. Because you are doing so, it knows almost everything happening on the system. From your NTP servers used for ...
This week, Linux Mint 22 was officially released with a number of quality-of-life improvements, boasting six years of security updates. The alternative PC operating system is popular for its familiarity and ease of use for people new to Linux and coming from Windows. In fact, Mint was the ...
kernel is seemingly doing everything fine, bug is in userspace. Below was caused by McAfee, but with different process name. This system had mfetpd instead of fsmon.Raw crash> bt PID: 1 TASK: ffff905003712840 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "systemd" #0 [ffffb57ac3147b30] __schedule at ffffffff9...
Environment variables cleanly separate configuration from code, keeping sensitive values abstracted into the environment. You can deploy the same code from development to production without changing a thing. The environment variables can differ between environments without impacting the code at all. ...
(as of year-end 2002). This June, Microsoft begins charging for non-security NT 4 upgrades, and on December 30, 2004 it will stop issuing all fixes and security patches for NT 4. So all those servers need to be upgraded soon. That's a good thing for Microsoft's revenues (and for ...