Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executabl ...

syslogd typically binds a socket, traditionally at /dev/log on Unix though that's often a symlink. If VictoriaLogs was able to bind this, it would be possible to turn off syslogd entirely in some ...

In my opinion, Linux network programming, especially socket programming, isn’t that difficult. However, learning this topic on your own can be challenging because many online resources are unclear, ...

The UNIX ping command lets you test network servers and latency. Here's how to use it in the macOS Terminal app. The UNIX ping command is a tiny UNIX network tool that allows you to test your network, ...

Unix and Linux systems don’t store dates and times in a way that includes months, days and years in the way that you see them displayed on the system. Instead, they are stored as the number of seconds ...

ABSTRACT: With the control mode of value-added network services equipment changing from bypass intervention to serial control, in order to minimize the security problems which are caused by the ...

You have probably used lsof from time to time, probably when tracking down some sort of problem. But maybe you haven’t tried all of its permutations or looked at it just to get a deeper understanding ...

This is a book about Unix programming, but in it we’re going to toss around the words “culture,” “art,” and “philosophy” a lot. If you are not a programmer, or you are a programmer who has had little ...

Born at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1980s, sockets first appeared in the Unix world as the Berkeley Sockets Interface, a programming device designed to help far-flung networked ...

can anyone recommend any good books on SCO UNIX (TCP/IP in particular?) I have an interview coming up in a while and i need to do some reading on the topic (even token rings vs ethernet, routers, ...