Linux Journal Contents #56, December 1998
December 1st, 1998 by Staff
Linux Journal Issue #56/December 1998
Features
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Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux
by David Gavin
Article about writing up a package of tools for performance analysis of Linux systems. It was written to make up for the lack of SAR on Linux—includes data collection tool and two sets of graphing systems
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CIDR: A Prescription for Shortness of Address Space
by David A. Bandel
This article explains the concept of CIDR and shows you how you can implement it on your network.
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User Manager Software
by Branden Williams
Mr. Williams presents a tool to handle all of your user-administration tasks.
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X Window System Administration
by Jay Ts
An introduction to X structure, configuration and customization.
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LJ Interviews Linus Torvalds
by Marjorie Richardson
With 2.2 on the horizon, LJ once again talks to the man who started it all—Linus Torvalds.
News & Articles
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Building a Web Weather Station
by Chris Howard
Mr. Howard tells us how he gathers and outputs weather information to the Web using Linux, Perl and automated FTP. Archive File containing listings found in this article.
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Samba's Encrypted Password Support
by John Blair
How SMB-encrypted passwords actually works and a walk-through the steps required to enable encrypted passwords in Samba.
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X-ISP and Maintaining Multiple Account Records
by Chris LeDantec
Even for the experienced administrator, X-ISP provides an easy way to manage multiple accounts, keep track of usage expense and time on-line.
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Linux in Banking
by Idan Shoham
Mr. Shoham tells us how his company set up an Internet banking system using Linux for a bank in Western Canada.
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Preventing Spams and Relays
by John Wong
The smtpd package is a useful mail demon for stopping spam, thereby saving money and resources.
Reviews
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Mathematica version 3.0 for Linux
by Patrick Galbraith
Review of new Maple release. Contacting Waterloo for new version
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Happy Hacking Keyboard
by Jeremy Dinsel
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Linux Application Development
by Andrew Johnson
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The Linux System Administration Handbook
by David A. Bandel
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Learning the Bash Shell, Second Edition
by Bob van der Poel
Columns
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Linux Means Business Wireless Networking in Africa
by F. Postogna, C. Fonda, E.Canessa, G. O. Ajayi, S. Radicella
The experiences of the members of an Italian project in establishing wireless networking with Linux in Africa
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Linux in Education Sharing Pedagogy with Java
by Robert A. Dalrymple
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At the Forge Embperl and Databases
by Reuven M. Lerner
Archive File containing listings found in this article.
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Linux Apprentice Linux Security for Beginners
by Alex Withers
Mr. Withers takes a look at basic security issues and how to solve them using available tools
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Take Command bc: A Handy Utility
by Alasdair McAndrew
Mr. McAndrew shows us how the bc command can be used for prototyping numerical algorithms.
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Kernel Korner The Wonderful World of Linux 2.2
by Joseph Pranevich
Mr. Pranevich gives us a look at the changes and improvements coming out in the new kernel.
Strictly On-line
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Linux System Initialization
by David A. Bandel
Archive File containing listings found in this article.
Departments
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Letters to the Editor
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Stop the Presses
by Dwight Johnson
Venture Capital Invested in Red Hat
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Best of Technical Support
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