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SSHFS? What’s that and how do I use it?

August 13, 2016October 8, 2016 Alistair Ross
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Check out Tecmint’s great article on SSHFS, a way that you can securely see the filesystem of a remote computer, using the SSH protocol. It works kind of like NFS, simply add a mountpoint on […]

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How to get to a service/server which is on an inaccessible network (using SSH tunnels)

August 3, 2016October 12, 2016 Alistair Ross
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In the latest of our ‘just the examples’, imagine you are in a scenario where you want to ssh to a server (or even browse a web page etc) on a server you cannot directly get […]

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80 Linux Monitoring Tools for SysAdmins

June 1, 2016October 12, 2016 Alistair Ross

Have a look at this excellent list of tools for monitoring your Linux servers! We could add the same list, but it would just be downright thievery, it’s the most comprehensive list of its kind […]

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How to setup a KVM server the fast way

May 25, 2016 Alistair Ross
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This is a very short quick setup on how to get KVM (The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine hypervisor) server up and running. Why KVM? KVM is a hypervisor, just like VmWare ESX, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and […]

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Quick Tip: convert images at the command line with ImageMagick

January 25, 2016 Alistair Ross
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ImageMagick is a very mature tool. It’s been around for donkeys years and it even acts as the silent ‘back end’ to some of the best GUI-based image manipulation software. However, the jewel in ImageMagick’s […]

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How to tar (compress) files up, excluding certain files or directories

February 24, 2015January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross
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If you’ve ever been making a backup of an entire Linux system, or maybe just a number of folders but there were certain folders or files that you didn’t want to have in the backup […]

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Using Google Drive from the Linux Command Line

February 24, 2015January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross

GDrive Gdrive is a command line tool which manages, uploads, downloads, deletes and shares files on Google Drive. You can download the tool from Github at https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive. Unfortunately it does not support file synchronisation. Installation Download the […]

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How to use Alpine to use iCloud/GMail email from the command line

January 19, 2015January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross

Some times you are in an ssh session, administering a machine, it’s a slow link, or it’s just not practical to have a shiny graphical email program up and running. None the less, you need […]

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