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Using Microsoft SFU for accessing NFS exports 1 Jun 2010 | 04:06 am
In this tutorial, we will explore together and see how easy it is to install and configure Microsoft’s Windows Services For Unix (SFU) which is now already available for free. It provides a Unix subsy...
Installing and using omnitty terminal multiplexer 29 May 2010 | 05:05 am
With more power comes more responsibility, this is obviously true for omnitty. Allowing to run commands on multiple servers simultaneously is really powerful and also dangerous. Imagine a time when yo...
ssh passwordless authentication without keys 28 May 2010 | 03:19 am
Imagine ever wanted to avoid the hassle of typing in the password while connecting to servers using ssh? Here is a really simply neat trick that will demonstrate how easy it is to accomplish it so it ...
Sharing a directory using nfs 27 May 2010 | 07:55 am
This tutorial will walk you through exporting a directory so that we can read from or write to it. I will make it really simple so that in emergency situations, you are good to go within a few minutes...
Monitoring inbound and outbound netwrok connections 13 May 2010 | 08:16 am
Ever found yourself in need of knowing all or some specific incoming and outgoing network connections? There is this little utility that will just happily log inbound or outbound network conections ba...
Creating map of local network 3 Apr 2010 | 02:50 am
There is this cool little that helps us create map of local area network. As a bonus, we get the mac and the IP addresses of all the devices in the network. It passively listens for all network traffi...
Finding MAC addresses of all devices in LAN 1 Apr 2010 | 04:29 am
Recently I had to find mac addresses of all servers in the local area network (LAN) for preseeding Debian installations using PXE (I will soon write about it). Finding them is easy with nmap I used th...
Finding external IP from command line 26 Nov 2009 | 03:33 am
Lately, I was configuring Nagios and most of the systems were on the same private IP block as the Nagios server. One of the servers was outside the LAN and I was using the allowed_hosts directive for ...
Sending mails from command line 24 Nov 2009 | 05:14 am
Often times, we want to send log files or other emails from command line or want to script them. In this tutorial, I will show you how to do that using two mail clients mail and mutt. Sending mails us...
Making and burning ISO images 1 Oct 2009 | 02:19 am
There are times when we are faced with either making or burning iso images created by us or downloaded from internet. Most data CDs and DVDs can be accessed on multiple plateforms because they are cre...
