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Tar to archive over ssh

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[[Modified]]Does anyone know how to tar and gzip an archive over ssh so it ends up compressed on the remote host?For example, boot from Knoppix to rescue som...

Ubuntu Edgy Eft

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Jan 20 2007…Just wanted to update this. The days I was trying to do this, the Ubuntu servers must’ve been overloaded. I tried it again, and got everything ...

Mapping Drives in Cygwin

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Map drive cygwin:I had a dilemma whilst executing cron jobs on a box that needed some NetWare drives mapped. (This ought to work for Windows mapped drives a...

Novell Linux OES SP2 Part Deux

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The trick is to install the Novell services (i.e. NSS) during install time, rather than after.This worked, and we’ve got RSYNC working on traditional OES Net...