For a few years now I keep catching myself transferring files between Linux servers, in a silly way… What I mean is using somthing like ftp, or copying to my desktop and then up to the other server – all hassle (and in the case of ftp – inherently insecure). Why do I do this? [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ssh’
Jun 17
rm Argument list too long.. Linux Huh? moment.
I recently had a little problem when deleting a store of spam e-mails off one of my personal servers. Basically entering the standard death defying command of “rm -Rfv *” while in a directory (this will delete everything recursively – have fun), the system responded “Argument list too long” – cue the first “huh?” moment [...]
Sep 17
Putty – for SSH
I have ubuntu (kubuntu) on my desktop – this is nearly always on and is great.
I then have a Mac in the office at work – running Mac OS X.
generally apart from keyboard issues (as i don’t have a Mac Keyboard so sometimes the mappings go wonky) – the Mac is fine – no probs, but in order to access SSH the Mac just doesn’t have anything to touch Putty.
