Archive for May, 2010

Using Microsoft SFU for accessing NFS exports

Monday, May 31st, 2010

In this tutorial, we will explore together and see how easy it is to install and configure Microsoft’s Windows Services For Unix (SFU) which is now already available for free. It provides a Unix subsystem and other parts of a full Unix environment on Windows NT and its successors. The subsystem included is known as [...]

Installing and using omnitty terminal multiplexer

Friday, May 28th, 2010

With more power comes more responsibility, this is obviously true for omnitty. Allowing to run commands on multiple servers simultaneously is really powerful and also dangerous. Imagine a time when you had to run the same commands on a number of servers and you were desperate to do it as soon as possible without leaving [...]

ssh passwordless authentication without keys

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Imagine ever wanted to avoid the hassle of typing in the password while connecting to servers using ssh? Here is a really simply neat trick that will demonstrate how easy it is to accomplish it so it does not ask for password. And as a bonus, you will notice that the connection is surprisingly much [...]

Sharing a directory using nfs

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

This tutorial will walk you through exporting a directory so that we can read from or write to it. I will make it really simple so that in emergency situations, you are good to go within a few minutes

Monitoring inbound and outbound netwrok connections

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Ever found yourself in need of knowing all or some specific incoming and outgoing network connections? There is this little utility that will just happily log inbound or outbound network conections based on rules you set up