When the website data or web applications are added to your cloud based servers it becomes essential to set up remote connection with the virtual servers in the cloud. Connecting to a cloud enables you to transfer data from the local network of the organization or desktop to the “virtual world” of the cloud server. [...]

Categories: The Web, Web Development

Seahorse is a very powerful tool for the creation and managing of various keys. Seahorse is the default keyring manager for the GNOME desktop. I have covered Seahorse here on Ghacks before (see “Create, sign, and publish your PGP keys with Seahorse“), but one aspect I didn’t cover was the use of Seahorse for secure [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

Yesterday, at the office, we had a client come to use needing to merge two 20 Gig directories of data together. Naturally I chimed in saying “I’m sure Linux can do that with a simple shell script”! Of course neither the client or my fellow workers wanted to deal with a shell script. So, instead, [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

“In the beginning was the command line” is not the just name of a great book by Neil Stephensen (read the text here), but a way of life for many Linux users. The command line is the tool for just about any level user. However, the power user takes the command line to newer and [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you are looking for a command line utility to handle all of your Linux backup needs, you really need look no further than this tool that bases itself off of the perennial backup favorite rsync. Rsnapshot takes the rsync utility and makes it more useful than it already was. With rsnapshot you can retain multiple [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

It’s Friday and that means we’re all ready for the weekend. But that also means we’re ready for some fun. Because of that I thought it would be fitting to do an article on some of the cooler Linux tips and tricks that I have come across over the years. This article will be a [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you’ve been following my Nagios articles here on Ghacks (see “Easily extend Nagios’ functionality” and “Quickly install Nagios on Ubuntu” for more information) you are probably impressed with how powerful Nagios is. Well, I can happily say you haven’t seen anything yet. Nagios is amazing in it’s ability to extend and report. Of course, [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, Tutorials Basic

If you’ve ever used secure shell you know that it can get a little daunting with all of the command options available. But did you know you can make this task much easier with the help of secure shell user configuration files? With these files (unique to each user) you can configure secure shell to [...]

Categories: Advice, Security

The developer of WinSCP, the popular SFTP and SC client for Windows, has been updated by its developer. WinSCP can be used to securely copy files between a local computer system and a remote server. Many webmasters use it for instance to connect to and manage their websites and servers. WinSCP provides access to file [...]

Categories: Software, Windows