On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:10:56PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: <snip> > Also must do is to read a book on unix systems. I suggest the 4.4 bsd > book, because it is a lot more readable than some of the more well-known > pamphlets by various illustruous academics[1]. Also, Kirk McKusick has > a video with the book and you're missing out if you have not seen it. > It is brilliant. I wish that some day, there will be something similar > for linux and that it will have all the beautiful anectdotes that light > up the McKusick tapes. This is really unix at its best: vibrant with > culture.
Cheers, I'll give that a go some time... > > > Watch out for all the rope hanging about in dark corners of /proc and > > > /dev. Your point is valid though, but I doubt that you'll find > > > much of importance outside of /var. And then most of what is in /var > > > should probably change itself when daemons restart or should just stay > > > like it was, like your archived logfiles. > > > > /proc and /dev? Shirley the next reboot would cure /proc... though > > admittedly > > it's not always an option... and an all together too windowsish solution! > > ;) > > You really don't want to mess with /dev/kmem and /proc/kcore. Install and > setup a user-mode-linux system if you like to toy with that stuff without > exposing real data to real danger. > Think you misunderstood me Joost... I was't advocating playing around with /dev or /proc. I was just wondering was $HOSTNAME info could be lurking around in these directories! (see original post) Regards, Iain
