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I am accessing a shared hosting account through Putty / SSH.
The account is pretty full, 300 MB below its quota.
I need to make a full backup of all data present on the account. Creating a bzip2 file using
tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 directory/*
fails because there is not enough space for the tar…
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I know this is probably a common question, but after looking around for a few hours (on this site and others), I can't find a solution.
I'm trying to set up a simple proxy. I already have a server running Windows Server 2008.
I've installed Cygwin and have OpenSSH installed. I also have sshd (the…
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Hi,
i am SSHing to a RHEL-3 box using Putty. Backspace works correctly, but when I press the "Delete" key the deletion does not happen. Instead, it prints "~" on the screen.
Thanks in advance,
Ajay
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created public/private keys using puttygen on my computer.
put the public key in the .ssh/authorized_keys folder on the server
setup pageant.exe to use the pk on my computer.
when I run pageant, and connecting using putty it still asks me for my password.
what am I missing?
I did do a:
chmod 700…
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I've been using Putty for years now and it seems kind of dated. What are some good alternatives to Putty that use tabs to manage console sessions (managing individual putty windows is a messy pita).
Edit: I've found the holy grail of SSH clients on SO, the PuTTY Connection Manager. Its the same old…
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Is it possible to do the following using 1 polkit .pkla file?
Disable all users except those in the wheel group from using polkit.
The users in the wheel group will need to provide the root password when using polkit.
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/wheel-only.pkla
[disable all users…
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I have a process (dbus-daemon) which has many open connection over UNIX sockets. One of these connections is fd #36:
=$ ps uw -p 23284
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
depesz 23284 0.0 0.0 24680 1772 ? Ss 15:25 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork…
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I've been using Linux for a couple of years now but I still haven't figured out what the origin or meaning of some the directory names are on Unix and Unix like systems. E.g. what does etc stand for or var? Where does the opt name come from?
And while we're on the topic anyway. Can someone give a…
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Hi All,
I am beginner to UNIX,UNIX Shell Scripting.
Can you please guide me through any excellent sites for unix(which are easy to understand),some study materials(tutorials),video tutorials.
Please help!!
Thanks!
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Is Mac OS X developed on a licensed Unix or is it a Unix-like clone that, unlike Linux, conforms to Unix specification well enough to be registered as a Unix OS. Not until Leopard, Mac OS X did not gain the Unix certification. But in Leopard, Terminal still print:
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release…
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