Use Secure Shell (SSH) to run commands on remote UNIX® systems and, with some simple scripts, put together a system that enables you to manage many systems simultaneously from one machine without having to log in directly to the machines themselves. Also examine the basics of a distributed management system and some scripts and solutions using the technique.
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Keep Your Linux SSH Session From Disconnecting
I'm the type of geek that has an SSH client open at all times, connected to my most frequently used servers so that I have instant access for monitoring and anything else.
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Increasing Virtualization Insanity
People are starting to realize how broken the Xen model is with its privileged Dom0 domain. But the actions they want to take are simply ridiculous: they want to add the drivers back into the hypervisor. There are many technical reasons why this is a terrible idea...
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Resources and Representations Redux
"...Let me repeat. People don't create links to server software; they create links to information. Service Oriented Architectures are about creating links to software. Resource Oriented Architectures are about creating links to information. Change your frame of reference."
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Why Is REST So Hard to Understand?
"...Now lets change our frame of reference to a ROA. In ROA, the most important part of the system is the data. Anything of interest gets a globally unique identifier, which is done via URIs.Next, the service becomes uninteresting because every service has the exact same API. On the Web, the service API is defined by HTTP verb's GET, POST, PUT, DELETE,..."
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How to set up Apache virtual hosting
Managing one site on a Web server can be tough enough, and the job is even harder if you have to host multiple client sites on a badly configured setup.
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Hardening your systems with Bastille Linux
System administrators need to secure their systems while avoiding locking them down so strictly that they become useless.
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Solutions from the road: Changing lots of passwords at once
In the first two articles in the series, we chose to use existing tools in a non-traditional way in order to solve a problem. This time, we’re going to use an often overlooked tool exactly as it was meant to be used.
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DSPAM With Embedded ClamAV Integrated Into Postfix With Virtual Users And Domains
This document describes how to integrate DSPAM with embedded ClamAV into a mail server based on Postfix featuring virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database.
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Installing Webmin On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)
This document describes how to setup Webmin on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) server. The server I used was previously setup according to the HowTo Forge document called Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft).
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Spreading Python applications
You have just written a fantastic and useful Python application, and you're ready to share it with the world.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Etch
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Debian Etch server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Display the SQL Django ORM is Generating
"Did you ever need to display the SQL that Django is generating, within your shell? I was playing around with a problem, which I’ll write more about later, and I needed this exact functionality to help me learn how various options in the Django ORM were being translated into SQL..."
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How to Convert chm files to HTML or PDF files
Under Linux, you can view a CHM file with the xchm viewer. But sometimes that’s not enough. Suppose you want to edit, republish, or convert the CHM file into another format such as the Plucker eBook format for viewing on your Palm.
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LyX 1.5: What you see is what you mean
According to its Web site, LyX is "the first WYSIWYM document processor," coupling a familiar word processing front end to the powerful LaTeX typesetting engine.
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