This kind of problem can occur because processes can create and hold an open file descriptor, preventing the file’s inode from being relinquished and the associated disk space freed up. If you can’t ...

Want to do something with those crash dump files other than remove them? Want to extract some useful information without a lot of work? Take a look at Sun’s free crash analysis tool, scat. While “scat ...

When Apple announced the release of Mac OS X, many Mac users were stunned: here was a new operating system based on the venerable Unix, which, they feared, would call into question the Mac’s legendary ...