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smartctl not working from cron job

I have a problem with smartctl Have updated from version 5.4 to the lastest version 6.4.. No change.. Same issue It works fine when running the command smartctl -H /dev/sda directly from the command line But when running the command from a cronjob its not working as it should. Here you can see the cron job se…

how to determine directory or file in linux in c

I want to print only file names without printing Directory Names. So, I implement this function I checked that Directory names ends with ‘/’ character. So, I checked that if there are ‘/’ character at the end of name, don’t print that name but when I run the function, all of them…

ARM: Disabling MMU and updating PC

In short, I would like to shut down all MMU (and cache) operations in a Linux context (from inside the Kernel), for debug purposes, just to run some tests. To be perfectly clear, I don’t intend that my system still be functional after that. About my setup: I’m currently fiddling with a Freescale V…

Does Java JVM use pthread?

Does JVM on Mac OS X use pthread to create threads? What about on Linux distributions, is it now default way to create threads for JVM on all distributions? Answer Yes, HotSpot JVM (i.e. Oracle JDK and OpenJDK) uses pthreads on Linux and on Mac OS X.