How To Install Ailurus On Fedora

For those who have not yet heard about ailurus:

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What is Ailurus?

Ailurus is cross-Linux-<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">distribution <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ailuruslogo.png" alt="" width="24" height="24" />What does Ailurus hope to do?

Ailurus hopes to reduce the difficulty which newcomers encounter when they are using Linux.

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command not found – packagekit plugin

If you run into problems where you run some command and the command is not found and you have to install it and run the program again then why not use the command not found <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/plugin" title="Plug-in (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29">plugin for Packagekit. Here is the description:

coproc help - a new feature in bash

In the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bash" title="Bash" rel="homepage" href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html">bash version 4.0, there is a new concept called coproc. This is very useful for some of the daily tasks.

co-<a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000005a409" title="Process (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_%28computing%29">process starts a process in the background, optionally with a NAME, with which other processes can communicate. This can be a very <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/substitute_good" title="Substitute good" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_good">good substitution for <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000048fac5" title="Pipeline (Unix)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_%28Unix%29">pipes in lots of cases. You can learn more about coproc in the link below:

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial – A Beginner\’s handbook

<a class="zem_slink freebase/en/unix_shell" title="Unix shell" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell">Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial – A Beginner&#8217;s handbook —

This book is for students and Linux System Administrators. It provides the skills to read, write, and debug <a title="Linux" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Linux">Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/shell_script" title="Shell script" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script">shell scripts using <a title="Bash" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Bash">bash <a title="Shell" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Shell">shell. The book begins by describing <a title="Linux" href="http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Linux">Linux and simple scripts to automate frequently executed commands and continues by describing conditional logic, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/interactivity" title="Interactivity" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactivity">user interaction, loops, menus, traps, and functions. Finally, book covers various sys admin related scripts such as making a backup, using <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron jobs, writing interactive tools, web based tools, remote login, ftp and database backup related scripts. This book is intended for Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/system_administrator" title="System administrator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_administrator">system administrators or students who have mastered the basics of a Linux Operating System. You should be able to:

core dump checking script.

I was testing a program which crashing every now and then. It is very difficult in such scenarios to keep looking for the <a class="zem_slink" title="Core dump" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump">core file or keep checking for the running process. So I wrote this simple script that can check for core file in the particular path and keep running until it finds one. You can hack this script to send a mail once the core is found. This is a very simple script. And this should work on solaris too..

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