March 7, 2010 - 9:26 am
Tags: automount, cd iso, fstab, iso, iso images, linux distributions, samba shares, System, udev
Posted in fstab, mount, udev | No comments
Modern Linux distributions use udev which automount partitions to the system. This is most notably seen with usb device that are the predominant hot swappable media. Internal hard drives, particularly drives that are used to boot the system, have their mount points defined in the fstab file. Fstab is automatically generated during the Debian/Ubuntu installation [...]
March 2, 2010 - 10:26 am
Tags: location, ltsp, nvidia card, PXE, room, Server, server room, video capabilities, video chipset
Posted in gdm, ldm, local, ltsp, nvidia, remote | No comments
Yes, I know it sounds funny. You can work locally from a remote location. I am specifically referring to use of LTSP. I am managing a server for a company, and I will be placing the server in an air conditioned server room; and I don’t want to sit in that room all day long. [...]
February 27, 2010 - 9:42 am
Tags: client, client location, connection, encrypted connection, gateway, gateway ports, option, ssh, ssh connection, ssh connections
Posted in .forward, client, gateway, host, port, reverse, ssh, tunnel | No comments
SSH can create forward and reverse tunnels to transmit port data through the encrypted connection. You can create forward tunnels that link the local port of the client machine to the remote port on the server. You can create reverse tunnels that link the remote ports of the server to the local ports on the [...]
February 16, 2010 - 9:32 am
Tags: benifit, caption, client web, code, directory, directory path, document, gt options, host containers, html, Server, server parameters, shtml, side, sudo, Wikipedia
Posted in Server, apache2, include, side, ssi | No comments
Server side includes allow for external html documents to be injected into a page prior to it rendering on the client web browser. The benifit of this is eliminating the need to repetitiously repeat code over and over again. If you include the same scripts, on each of your website pages, you can create an [...]
February 13, 2010 - 9:26 am
Tags: boot sequence, dhcp, dhcp servers, domain default, local ip, ltsp, machine, Server, server option, sudo
Posted in Server, inet, ltsp, tftp | No comments
I’m using LTSP to manage a server remotely in a local facility. I setup an LTSP server on the host machine, and will place it in an air-conditioned room to preserve longevity. I configured a machine, of much lower power, to PXE boot from the server. There are several nuances to setting up an LTSP [...]
February 10, 2010 - 9:02 am
Tags: default sendmail, email, external mail server, forward works, local ip, mail, relay mail, Sendmail, System, user
Posted in .forward, Sendmail, access, alert, aliases, home, user | No comments
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The core of Linux is designed to mail, at minimum, the root user of various system alerts. With sendmail installed these alerts are mailed to the respective user directory. If you have an external mail server you can configure your local user mail to be forwarded to any email address. The easiest method [...]
January 24, 2010 - 4:15 pm
Tags: accessible system, ban, login, login attempts, rsa, rsa keys, ssh, ssh ftp, ssh server, System
Posted in Server, fail2ban, login, remote, rsa, security, ssh | No comments
Based on some recent experience do not ever allow password remote login. There are two things you chould apply to your ssh server. Implement a RSA key login, and implement fail2ban. Fail2ban will modify iptables (firewall) to block the ip address of offending attempts to connect. It will do so for your apache, ssh, ftp, [...]
January 8, 2010 - 2:27 pm
Tags: Bash, Boot, boot process, constructs, cron jobs, intervals, Mark Baaijens, script, System, VBoxTool, virtual machines
Posted in Bash, Boot, Mark Baaijens, VBoxTool, script | No comments
Bash scripting is straight forward. There are logical and object oriented constructs like programs, and you are basically manipulating data contained in files, and using standard output to determine various tasks to be done. VBoxTool does what VBoxManage lacks. I wonder how corporations start virtual machines on boot, and manage their machines once the system [...]
December 25, 2009 - 2:55 pm
Tags: ajax, password attempts, rsa key, Server, shell, shell function, system server, Term, web, web shell
Posted in Server, encrypt, secure, shell, ssh | No comments
If you want to connect to your server in an encrypted and secure fashion, but do not want to or cannot install a binary on your local system, you can use a web based ssh client. The original software, that I have heard of, is Anyterm. It has since been replaced by Sjax Term, and [...]