Archive for the 'Debian/Linux' Category

Installing Java and JDK on Debian Etch

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Several popular tools require a Java runtime environment, or JRE, to work. Whilst there a growing number of open Java environments at times installing Sun Java environment is the pragmatic approach - unfortunately the software doesn’t come in a Debian package. This short recipe shows how to install a Java SDK, or JDK, as a [...]

Eternal Bash History - super duper useful

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

I come accross this nice little article! Me and Simon have wondered how to do this for a while.. well, now we know how! wohoo!
Many times I’ve found myself using Ctrl-R in Bash to get a old command four times the terminal width, just to find out that too many days have passed and it’s [...]

using ssh on multiple servers at one time

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

The possibilities for this app are endless. Yum.
Lots of us have many server to manage and we perform the same tasks on each of the machine every day, if you want to save time the package cssh will make you happy!
Simply install the clusterssh package:

host:/# apt-get install clusterssh

Now if you want to perform the same [...]

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