The following articles and documents are written by LOSURS members.
- What Is a Zombie Process? - Tillman Hodgson
- When you do a ps, processes that have a status of Z are called "zombies". Naturally, when people see a zombie process, the first thing they try to do is to kill the zombie, using kill or (horrors!) kill -9. This won't work, however: you can't kill a zombie, it's already dead.
- How Does Linux Boot? - Tillman Hodgson
- In talking about booting Linux, you're going to learn about that mysterious init process that always seems to be at the top of your ps waux process listings.
- How Do I Use Shell Redirection? - Tillman Hodgson
- This short document provides a simple and concise introduction to the various interesting things that one can do using redirection and pipes in Unix shells, especially bash.
- Chroot-BIND HOWTO - Scott Wunsch
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This document describes installing the BIND 9 nameserver to run in a
chroot jail and as a non-root user, to provide added security and minimize the potential
effects of a security compromise. Note that this document has been updated for BIND 9;
if you still run BIND 8, you want the Chroot-BIND8 HOWTO instead.
[ Text | PostScript | SGML source ] - Chroot-BIND8 HOWTO - Scott Wunsch
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This document describes installing the BIND
8 nameserver to run in a chroot jail and as a non-root user, to provide added security
and minimise the potential effects of a security compromise. This version of the
document covers the old but still popular BIND 8; there is another document provides
similar information for BIND 9.
[ Text | PostScript | SGML source ] - VESA-Frame-Buffer mini-HOWTO - Lonny Selinger
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This document provides basic, quick set up instructions for enabling Frame Buffering for VESA
compliant cards in Linux.
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