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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Need Direction for extra work ? Post 302341730 by quine on Thursday 6th of August 2009 12:54:47 PM

08-06-2009

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Try process monitoring. Write a script (you choose language) that monitors your process space (ps -ef etc) and reports to you when "unusual events" occur... You define "unusual" for yourself for learning purposes... For example...

1. A process that appears in less than 1 of 4 sweeps
2. Processes that run more than a few minutes
3. Process whose actual time exceeds its cpu time by more than 100 to 1

things like that...

Become a sed expert... Set up a crontab (again an example) and write a sed script that advances the time of every job in the list by one hour...

Become an awk expert -- even better for a sysadmin

There are lots of basic tools you could teach yourself to use proficiently for admin purposes, and you could do useful things with them like learn to automate system backups, etc.

When you feel really confident, have someone come along who knows what he/she is doing (so there's no physical damage) and DESTROY your system -- screw up NFS, over-flow the process space, what ever, and then you have to (a) figure out what is wrong and (b) fix it...

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QwtColumnRect(3)						 Qwt User's Guide						  QwtColumnRect(3)

NAME

       QwtColumnRect -

       Directed rectangle representing bounding rectangle und orientation of a column.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <qwt_column_symbol.h>

   Public Types
       enum Direction { LeftToRight, RightToLeft, BottomToTop, TopToBottom }

   Public Member Functions
       QwtColumnRect ()
       QRectF toRect () const
       Qt::Orientation orientation () const

   Public Attributes
       QwtInterval hInterval
       QwtInterval vInterval
       Direction direction

Detailed Description
       Directed rectangle representing bounding rectangle und orientation of a column.

Member Enumeration Documentation
   enum QwtColumnRect::Direction
       Direction of the column.

       Enumerator:

       LeftToRight
	      From left to right.

       RightToLeft
	      From right to left.

       BottomToTop
	      From bottom to top.

       TopToBottom
	      From top to bottom.

Constructor &; Destructor Documentation
   QwtColumnRect::QwtColumnRect () [inline]
       Build an rectangle with invalid intervals directed BottomToTop.

Member Function Documentation
   Qt::Orientation QwtColumnRect::orientation () const [inline] Returns:
	   Orientation

   QRectF QwtColumnRect::toRect () const [inline] Returns:
	   A normalized QRect built from the intervals

Member Data Documentation
   Direction QwtColumnRect::direction
       Direction.

   QwtInterval QwtColumnRect::hInterval
       Interval for the horizontal coordinates.

   QwtInterval QwtColumnRect::vInterval
       Interval for the vertical coordinates.

Author
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Version 6.0.0							  Fri Apr 15 2011						  QwtColumnRect(3)