Subversion is becoming more and more popular every day. To get quick installation guide, see my post on installing Subversion. Once you have Subversion set up, make sure you have backups of repository setup! This is one of those things most people forget to do. If you followed the installation guide [...]

I ran in to something really odd. I have been using crontab for LONG time and never seen this issue before. Basically I added new entry into my crontab by type crontab -e and as always saved/exited. For some reason that command never ran at the time I specified. I tested [...]

Today I was working on setting up public key authentication over SSH on few servers I inherited recently.  I have done this many times and never ran in to following error:
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
After doing further research on the server I was trying to connect to (looking at logs) I noticed the server [...]

Before we go in to details on how to set up public key authentication, I would like to talk about pros and cons about doing this. After you know the pros and cons, you can make an educated decision. First, let us talk about biggest benefit about setting up public key authentication over [...]

There are a lot of great articles on setting up Bind and some of them even go in great details on setting up secure DNS server using Bind. I have used one them time after time called: Linux Howto: Chroot Bind How To. One of the things I do not like [...]