List all mounts in Linux

There is no such command, since there is no list of “attempted mounts”. You can compare the current mount list (/etc/mtab) to the list of shares registered to be mounted though (/etc/fstab). Alternatively you could try to grep through the system log files to find failed mount attempts.

Using grep and ls -a commands

Using an ls –a and grep, how would you list the name of all of the files in /usr starting with the letter p or the letter r or the letter s using a single grep command? would this be right?

Apache server keeps crashing, “caught SIGTERM, shutting down”

SIGTERM is used to restart Apache (provided that it’s setup in init to auto-restart): http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html The entries you see in the logs are almost certainly there because your provider used SIGTERM for that purpose. If it’s truly crashing, not even serving static content, then that sounds like some sort of a thread/connection exhaustion issue. Perhaps … Read more

C fopen vs open

First, there is no particularly good reason to use fdopen if fopen is an option and open is the other possible choice. You shouldn’t have used open to open the file in the first place if you want a FILE *. So including fdopen in that list is incorrect and confusing because it isn’t very … Read more