I don’t know how it really happened – probably a VMWare crash that locked my file system, but after a reboot I got this message at startup :
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Connecting to a Remote Host using SSH in Mac OS X
What is SSH? What is SFTP? SSH (Secure Shell Protocol) is a secure replacement for telnet. Like telnet, SSH can be used to connect to a remote host computer using an account name and password. The advantages of SSH over telnet are:
Linux and Unix mount and unmount
About mount and unmount Mount or unmount file systems and remote resources.
Check for Rootkits on Linux, BSD, and OSX
Those of us in UNIX-land (and yes, Mac people, that includes you) don’t often have to deal with malware. There is room for debate about the exact reasons for that, but few would argue that Linux, BSD and OSX get hit as hard or as often as Windows. This does not, however, make us immune …
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Incremental backups with GNU tar
Building on this thread, GNU tar (which is installed by most Linux distributions, and all available distributions installable on VPSlink) supports incremental backups, meaning it only archives files that have changed since the last backup was done.
Recover Deleted Files in Linux
You must be wondering how we could recover a deleted file, because the very word “delete” implies “permanently gone”. However, when you delete a file (accidentally or intentionally), its contents are not removed from your hard disk; the blocks that the file occupied on the storage device (like a hard disk) still contain the data, …