User manual

Development tools

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8. Another prompt is displayed: [S]AVE / [C]ANCEL. Enter “S” to save the

conﬁguration. The message

Verifying and saving... appears.

9. Once the conﬁguration is saved, the terminal screen displays the normal boot

status messages. Continue administration of the RaQ 4 through your Web

browser.

Development tools

The RaQ 4 provides a collection of utilities to support applications development

and server administration. These tools include:

• GNU C/C++ compiler (gcc) and libraries

• Java Run-time Environment

• GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash)

• Text editors (emacs, vi, pico)

• File system utilities (ls, mv, cp, ln, rm, chmod, chown, chgrp, du, df)

• File parsing utilities (sed, awk, diff)

• File display utilities (cat, more, less)

• Search utilities (find, grep, which)

• Archive utilities (gzip, tar, cpio, rpm)

• Network utilities (FTP, telnet, netstat, ping, finger, mail, pine)

• Programming languages (perl, python, tcl/tk)

These utilities can be found in one of the following directories:

/sbin

/bin

/usr/sbin

/usr/bin

For an expanded set of development tools, visit the Solutions directory on Cobalt

Networks’ Web site (http://www.cobalt.com/solutions/)

Additionally, the Linux distribution on the RaQ 4 is based on the Red Hat

Linux 6.0 distribution for x86-compatible processor systems.

You can run most pre-compiled x86-based commercial software packages on the

RaQ 4, as long as the software does not require a mouse, keyboard or monitor.

Ensure that the software is compatible with the Linux 2.2 kernel and the glibc

library.