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Expect: The Firefighter’s Friend • Cameron Laird

Laird surveys the range of Expect uses, then describes ways Expect can solve one-time emergencies.

Compiling Palm™ Apps on Linux • Alex Lange

This article describes how to compile a simple PQA on Linux using the public domain LinPQA compiler. Lange shows how to use LinPQA, then presents an example of a PQA-accessed application: a Web-based logfile viewer.

An Economical Scheme for Quasi Real-Time Backup • Leo Liberti and Franco Raimondi

The authors describe the implementation of a quasi real-time backup scheme for high-availability systems that updates standby server's data disks at every specified time interval.

Building a Web Mail Server with SquirrelMail • Brent Bice

Bice shows how to use SquirrelMail, an open source Web mail package written in PHP4.

Versatile Fault Management with Perl • Tim Shouldice

In this article, the author examines fault management and its requirements, then shows how to build a complete solution using Perl.

Generating Passwords with Easypass.pl • Matt Lesko

Lesko shares a tool called Easypass.pl, which can be used to generate passwords.

Using Depot to Create a Centralized, Flexible, and Manageable Software Repository • Bob Jobsky

Jobsky outlines how to combine depot with the use of NFS, wrappers, and a chrooted environment to implement a very flexible UNIX software repository.

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Questions and Answers • Amy Rich

Storage Consolidation — Part 2 — Product Selection • Peter Baer Galvin

Parsing and Summarizing a Logfile • Randal L. Schwartz

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