All The Info » kernel http://blog.alltheinfo.org Everything worth knowing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:19:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kernel Newbies http://blog.alltheinfo.org/kernel-newbies/164/ http://blog.alltheinfo.org/kernel-newbies/164/#comments Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:34:02 +0000 Bob Weber http://blog.alltheinfo.org/?p=164 Now I’m not what I would call a Kernel Newbie. I’ve been compiling and installing custom Linux Kernels for about eight years now. What I am not (and don’t intend to ever be) is a Linux Kernel developer. As such, I have difficulty when it comes to reading the changelogs for the latest Kernel revisions. Sure, I understand most of the terminology and I can get a good handle on what areas have changed, but it’s difficult for anyone who isn’t actually contributing to the development process to translate the changes into an overview of new and exciting features.

Amazingly enough, there is a site out there that does just they. kernelnewbies.org provides, among other things, a synopsis of the current Kernel’s changelog rewritten in understandable terms. How cool is that?

]]> http://blog.alltheinfo.org/kernel-newbies/164/feed/ 0 Configure the linux to write corefiles as core.pid? http://blog.alltheinfo.org/configure-the-linux-to-write-corefiles-as-corepid/103/ http://blog.alltheinfo.org/configure-the-linux-to-write-corefiles-as-corepid/103/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:02:49 +0000 Bob Weber http://blog.alltheinfo.org/?p=103 If you dump core files you can run into a problem where multiple core files are dumped and one will overwrite the others. One solution to this problem is to change the Linux kernel so it will dump core to a file named core.pid .

Starting in the 2.4.x kernel series this can be accomplished by changing the value of /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid from 0 to 1.

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