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How does reverse SSH tunneling work?
As I understand this, firewalls (assuming default settings) deny all incoming traffic that has no prior corresponding outgoing traffic.
Based on Reversing an ssh connection and SSH Tunneling Made ...
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Running continuous jobs remotely
I'm new to Linux, and I'm probably asking a fairly basic question. How do I run a continuous program on Linux?
Basically, I have a program that will continuously check for content on a website. This ...
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Linux Bulk/Remote Administration
Beside our internal IT infrastructure, we've got around 500 Linux machines hosting our services for the on-line world. They are grouped in a bunch of clusters like Database A-n, Product A-n, NFS, ...
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best practice to backup config files
I want to setup froxlor on not fresh install remote server (Ubuntu 10.04.2).
I take care of admin the server since two month. Before I start, the previous guy installed and config some services and ...
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How to fetch and process mail in order to execute commands?
I administer a home server, and sometimes when I'm out I need to execute some simple commands on the server. 3G + SSH is not an option because it's too expensive from my phone (here in Argentina). It ...
