Linux Journal Weekly News Notes -- January 10th
Feature Links of the Week
On Becoming a Linux Geek:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/culture/0019.html -- Russell J.T.
Dyer offers some tips for those contemplating trying out Linux for the
first time.
Who Let the Carnivore Out?:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/currents/0026.html -- A
discussion of some problems with the FBI's e-mail surveillance
software, Carnivore, with the potential to "chomp" its way through the
Fourth Amendment.
Professional Apache:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/linux_review/0023.html -- Ibrahim
takes a look at this new book and gives it two thumbs up.
Geek Link of the Week
Installing and Configuring Apache, PHP and MySQL:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/linux_review/0024.html -- When
Ralph decided to build a web server, and needed a calendar system as
well, the addition of PHP and MySQL made sense. In this article, he
walks you through his experiences with the setup.
Linux Resources Spotlight
Links:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/links/index.shtml -- Looking to enter the
Linux job market? Check out the links to job sites that specialize in
Linux.
Tech Tip of the Week
You can spare yourself unnecessary "fscks" by mounting your /usr
partition as read-only. Mounting a partition read/write counts toward
the mount count for fsck but mounting it read-only doesn't. Also, if
for some reason your system gets shut down improperly, any partitions
mounted read-only won't get fscked when you reboot.
To do this, just edit /etc/fstab and put "ro" in the options field in
the line for /usr, like this:
/dev/hda7 /usr ext2 ro 0 2
The options you can use here are the same as in the -o option to the
mount command. See man mount.
So what happens when you need to install software on /usr? Just do
mount -o remount,rw /usr
to remount /usr as read/write without unmounting it. To make /usr
read-only again when you're done,
mount -o remount,ro /usr
Another useful option to put in /etc/fstab is "noatime", which
prevents access times from being updated when files on that partition
are read. Webmasters of busy servers use noatime on the partition
where their document root lives to get better performance.
By the Way . . .
Come up with cover ideas for fun and prizes! Our poor brains are
growing fatigued after six years of coming up with ideas to put on the
cover of Linux Journal, so we'd like to expand the thinking pool by
soliciting cover ideas from LJ readers. We need cover ideas for the
following issues and editorial foci:
* Issue 84, April--Internet/Intranet
* Issue 85, May--Linux Training and Certification
* Issue 86, June--Internationalization and Emerging Markets
Please submit printable cover concepts in text to Khris Goldberg
([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If your idea is selected you will be awarded a
lifetime subscription to Linux Journal as well as a super swell Linux
Journal jacket, manufactured by Land's End.
--
Sebastián D. Criado
Desarrollo de Negocios de Infraestructura
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