It’s often challenging to find answers for the problems that plague you — and it’s even worse when the folk that you try to ask are frustrated and confused by how you’re trying to ask, or simply ignore you completely! There have been tons of good things written about how to ask questions in a…
Here are my notes how I set up SVN over SSH to an SVN server that had been set up to run SVN as a single user, “svn”. So, we have multiple users on the remote side, all logging in as “svn” on the SVN server side. Authentication is done via a dedicated key-pair, with…
As a sys admin I hear a lot of funny stuff from users and other people that would probably be funny to other system administrators and others who are deep in IT business. So I decided to share the experience with you people here on LOPSA. So Part 1 is: IT Audit It’s funny how…
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This is nifty – you can specify a remote tape drive, root@unix2:/dev/tape Example: unix1# tar -x -v –rsh-comand /usr/bin/ssh -f root@unix2:/dev/tape ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 … unix1#
Systems administrators are magical wizards that know everything and can make computers sing, dance, and do various other parlor tricks. As someone who carries the title, everyone assumes you can do the same. Whether it is a brand new application that no one has ever seen before, a telephone system that has nothing to do…
One of the Masters (6th Dan) at my Tae Kwon Do school, Master Robert Gross, has developed his _Ten Commandments of Martial Arts_. He has very graciously permitted me to use the first of his commandments, “Thou shalt not block with thy face” for one of my _Black Belt Systems Administration_ topics. The first corollary…
I saw on one of the news sites (Slashdot or OSNews, forget which exactly) a story about the following [http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/10-ultimate-rules-for-effective-system-administration.html|10 Essential Rules for System Administrators]. These are mostly pretty basic and many of them are not really SA specific. I’m not certain that “backup regularly” and “test your backups regularly” are deserving of being two…
The darcs revision control system has all but lost out to git within the past few months. A rather large part of the reason is a rushed and very poorly worded release announcement, following a rather long (I’m told 4 years; I haven’t been aware of it that long, which itself is perhaps ominous) post-1.0 silence from the darcs developers: Continue reading
I’ve been posting some of my Tae Kwon Do belt test thesis papers to my blog, and for some reason they seem to be fairly popular. I’ve had an idea to start a series of posts that tie some of our martial arts lessons/philosophy to systems administration. I’m not a black belt (yet), I just…