Features

Highly Available LDAP  by Cliff White and Jay D. Allen and Cliff White

You can have uninterrupted LDAP service, using freely available software.

Process Accounting  by Keith Gilbertson

Here's a way the kernel and some simple utilities work together to track processes and help you find performance and security issues.

OpenLDAP Everywhere  by Craig Swanson and Matt Lung

A single company-wide directory service offers mail address lookup and file sharing to Linux and Windows users.

Indepth

Playing with ptrace, Part II  by Pradeep Padala

In part two of our series on ptrace, find out how to set breakpoints and change the code of a running process on the fly.

Linux Powers Four-Wall 3-D Display  by Douglas B. Maxwell

With the aid of a custom video switcher, a Linux cluster beats an expensive proprietary UNIX system for high-end virtual reality.

Learning the iTunesDB File Format  by Patrick Crosby

iPods aren't just for people who use computers from Mattel, no wait, Apple. Here's the playlist format. Don't all buy iPods at once, folks.

Embedded

Driving Me Nuts The Serial Device Layer  by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Toolbox

Kernel Korner   Trees in the Reiser4 Filesystem, Part I  by Hans Reiser

At the Forge   Creating OpenACS Packages  by Reuven M. Lerner

Cooking with Linux   A Process Smorgasbord  by Marcel Gagné

Paranoid Penguin   Configuring and Using an FTP Proxy  by Mick Bauer

Columns

Focus on Software   On System Administrators  by David A. Bandel

IAAL: The Ethical System Administrator  by Lawrence Rosen

Linux for Suits   Identity as Business Opportunity?  by Doc Searls

Reviews

VariCAD 8.2-02  by Michael Baxter

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