Monthly Archives: August 2008

10 Traits of a Successful SysAdmin

I was recently asked how I became a Sys­tems Admin­is­tra­tor. I answered with the nor­mal story of my life and moved on. How­ever, it got me think­ing about what has actu­ally led me to where I am. A col­league of mine had recently men­tioned how peo­ple love top x lists and best x lists so …

August 29, 2008 – 1:56 am | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Console sharing without setuid gnu screen

I men­tioned in my last post Shared con­sole ses­sions that I would have an update to get near same func­tion­al­ity with­out setuid of the screen binary. Well here it is. Hope­fully you are aware of expect and how it can be used to auto­mate inter­ac­tive pro­grams like tel­net. Expect is has many more uses that …

August 25, 2008 – 3:34 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Shared console sessions

I have had sev­eral posts regard­ing screen. Hope­fully you have already real­ized the great­ness of screen. Screen has a great fea­ture that allows screen ses­sions to be shared. To my knowl­edge there are two ways to use this fea­ture. First you can con­nect to a screen mul­ti­ple times as the same user. Sec­ond you can …

August 13, 2008 – 7:14 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)