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    Try command-line looping for added efficiency

    September 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Creating complex commands is one of the strengths of the command line, even though it takes an investment of time to learn this skill. Using loops, you can take often-used commands that would...

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    Expanding text with Snippits in Linux

    September 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen admires the Mac text-expanding tools like Typinator or TextExpander and has been looking for a similar tool in Linux. The best counterpart he found is a program called Snippits. Here...

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    Send messages and alerts from the command line

    August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen introduces two command-line programs, wall and mail, that allow you to send simple alerts and e-mail messages to users.

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    One-time scheduling of tasks with At

    August 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Scheduling services with cron and similar tools is great for repetitive tasks but inconvenient for one-time tasks. Vincent Danen introduces the flexible At command for tasks that only need to be...

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    Schedule periodic tasks with cron

    August 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen covers the basics of scheduling basic system and user tasks with cron, such as downloading e-mail at certain intervals and restarting services.

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    Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3

    August 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    The BackTrack LiveCD provides over 300 different tools that can be used by security professionals or system administrators. It includes tools for penetration testing, wireless cracking, network...

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    Install extra packages on the ASUS Eee PC

    August 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Installing extra packages on the Asus Eee PC is possible if you want more software than the average user. Vincent Danen explains how to set up Xandros repositories to make it easier to add packages.

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    Customize the Joe text editor

    August 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    The Linux text editor Joe has easy-to-remember keystrokes and allows you to customize it to suit your needs. Vincent Danen tells you how to tweak the configuration file to create keybindings and...

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    Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC

    July 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    The Xandros distribution that comes with the ASUS Eee PC 900 is a great experience for those new to Linux, but for more advanced users, it may feel quite limited. Out of the many distributions...

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    GUI scripting with Zenity

    July 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Zenity is a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. Similar to the dialog tool, which creates nice "graphical" text interfaces for the CLI, Zenity creates GUI widgets and...

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    Send mail with eSMTP for a simple, single-user system

    July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Programs like Sendmail or Postfix work great for multi-user systems or servers, but this setup may be more complex than you need for a single-user desktop system. Vincent Danen introduces you to...

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    Chroot users with OpenSSH: An easier way to confine users to their home directories

    June 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    With the release of OpenSSH 4.9p1, you no longer have to rely on third-party hacks or complicated chroot setups to confine users to their home directories or give them access to SFTP services....

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    Use Fuse to mount remote ssh directories

    June 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    The FUSE project has made editing remote files convenient by allowing local-filesystem-like access to remote files. With plugins like sshfs, which transparently makes an SFTP connection to a...

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    Realize the flexibility of OpenSSH

    June 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen explains the flexibility and power of OpenSSH. With it, you can access systems remotely and securely; transfer files securely (using scp, sftp, or even rsync over ssh); execute...

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    Delegate privileges to users with sudo

    June 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen offers a quick primer about the popular sudo program and shows you how to use it to delegate different privileges to users.

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    Dig for more data in the /proc directory

    May 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen introduces you to the /proc filesystem, which you can mine for a lot of helpful information about your system and running processes on your system.

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    Finding weak OpenSSL/OpenSSH keys

    May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen reports on a recent vulnerability that affects Debian-based systems, including Ubuntu. This vulnerability caused OpenSSL to generate weak keys for anything relying on OpenSSL,...

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    Log Linux services with runit

    May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vincent Danen explains how to configure logging for supervised services with the runit program.

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    Use runit to supervise Linux services

    May 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Gerrit Pape's runit is similar to djb's daemontools and allows you to run supervised services, like daemontools, and also allows you to replace SysV init completely if you so desire. Vincent Danen...

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    Using the openssl command-line program

    April 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    OpenSSL can be used to create, request, sign, and revoke certificates and can also be used to perform other cryptographic operations such as creating hashes for files, testing SSL connections, and...

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    Linux cheat sheet: KDE and Konquerer keyboard shortcuts

    May 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT

    Using the keyboard is often the fastest way to accomplish certain tasks. Vincent Danen put together this quick-glance list of shortcuts that can help speed up navigation, window and desktop...

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