I checked in to one of my Linux accounts today and saw that I had about 2 GB of unread emails.
Dating back to 2008, these emails were almost entirely the output of different cron jobs that I have set up & running on that account. They were error notifications & various STDOUT messages. Nothing really [...]
So, I have about 500 zipped up files that I needed to unzip.
Each of these files is about 100M when decompressed.
I ran into a big problem when unzipping the files all at once – when I did a simple “unzip \*zip", the server load eventually skyrocketed.
The load got so high, in fact, [...]
I was unzipping a boatload of zip files today, and I casually entered “unzip *zip” into my Linux command line.
No way, said my system.
Instead of unzipping the files, I got a bunch of warnings that read: “caution: filename not matched,” followed by a filename. At the end of the listing, unzip told me “1 archive [...]
Saw this great article by Ted Dziuba that parallels my programming philosophy.
( In case you’re interested, here’s a reddit thread on the article. )
In short, the article states that much of what you want to accomplish with any project is possible with the standard, tried-and-true Unix tools. When you shun these tools in favor [...]
By default, many Linux configurations automatically close SSH sessions after a certain amount of inactivity.
You can easily change this setting on your system by editing the sshd configuration file.
Of course, before doing so, you should consider the security implications of keeping SSH sessions active. Setting your server to keep connections alive may present a security [...]
