Source: ZDNet UK
Called Bliss, the virus is important because it is the first to attack Linux, a freeware variant of Unix that is often used in Web site administration. UNIX flavours have always been considered difficult to infect because administration rights are required to create the virus; McAfee believes that multi-user games played in administrator mode may have caused the problem.
Source: News Forge
Linux Canada announced the release of Quasar 1.1 accounting and point-of-sale software. The company is offering the base package as a free download, and the install is smooth as the cursor trail on a fancy optical trackball mouse.
IBM developerWorks released this article on cfengine (configuration engine), which the author claims will "edit files, run commands, and make symlinks while you sip your tea". This article offers a pretty good overview of the technology.
L33tdawg: Okay this is the last time I'm going to say this -- whoever is submitting these IBM Developer Works articles, PLEASE LOGIN!
Source: Linux Security
"Back in the summer of 1998, the Linux Security Audit Project http://lsap.org was founded as a mailing list.
Enhanced Cluster Tools (ECT) for Linux is a set of additional tools for the enhancement of Cluster Systems Management (CSM), which assists an administrator in managing a whole set of Linux machines. ECT for Linux includes features such as parallel install, hardware control, configuration file management, event monitoring, and maintain machines.
Study for the LPI certification 101 exam with intermediate Linux admin tutorial on the Linux
permissions model. In this third of a series of four LPI certification tutorials, you will learn fundamental Linux administration skills through a variety of topics including: system and Internet documentation, the Linux permissions model, user account management, and login environment tuning.
This tutorial, prepares you for the Linux Professional Institute's 101 exam. In this second of a series of four LPI certification tutorials, you will learn how to use regular expressions to search files for text patterns, how to locate files on your system, and how to take full control of Linux processes. You'll even get a a whirlwind introduction to shell pipelines, redirection, and text processing commands.
This tutorial, firms up your grasp of Linux basics. In this first of a series of four LPI certification tutorials, you will learn about bash (the standard Linux shell); standard Linux commands like ls, cp, and mv; Linux's permission and ownership model; and much more.
Exclusive introduction on how to cluster-enabling your Linux system and how you can benefit from setting up a cluster. MOSIX is a special transparent form of clustering that is very easy to set up and can produce positive results with only a minimal investment of time and energy.
Pick up more tips and techniques on using RPM to package and distribute your software. RPM is a widely used tool for delivering software for Linux; users can easily install an RPM-packagedproduct. In this article, the second in a series, it explains how to package software without running as root,
how to handle software that won't build on Linux without changes, and how to distribute your work.
