I just recently upgraded the computers here to Ubuntu Dapper from Breezy. On one of the computers I was trying to install webmin using apt-get, but with no luck. I finally found out that webmin was removed from the Ubuntu repository at the authors request. The instructions for setting up webmin under Dapper are here. [...]

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Since part of my job entails system administration I get to spend a lot of time configuring, fixing, setting up, and tweaking computers. I’m currently setting up several servers and since my favorite Linux distribution of all time is Ubuntu, guess what I’m installing? Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, and as such uses apt to [...]

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It is sometimes useful to pipe binary data over a ssh connection. I use this sometimes when I want to back up the data on a machine over the network without creating a backup file first.   tar -cf – dir_to_backup | ssh user@hostname ‘cat > backup.tar’

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On a typical project there are many different computers that I must use. For years I have been using scp to copy files from one computer to another and wishing for a way to just mount the SSH filesystem. Well, my wish finally came true! The good news is that thanks to sshfs I can [...]

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