Who Has Which Files

by Bruce Stewart
Linux Newsletter for 09/30/2002

Dear Reader,

In this week's Big Scary Daemon's column, Michael Lucas tackles the problem of unmounting a busy filesystem. With a little detective work Michael was able to determine who the culprits are who are holding his files open.
Who Has Which Files

Learn how to find the best route in a multihomed setup--the one that will take advantage of all available bandwidth --in the first installment on Traffic Engineering, excerpted from O'Reilly's BGP.
Traffic Engineering: Finding the Right Route

In the first part of our Nagios series we learned how to install Nagios and its plugins. We also briefly looked at what configuration files are necessary and how to install the sample configuration files. This week we will take a look at each configuration file one by one and configure one host and two services to be monitored.
Nagios, Part 2

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Bruce Stewart
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