Monthly Archives: September 2012

tar and ssh together to backup onto remote machine

Posted on 2012/09/28 by pauljohn

On my laptop, I have working installs of some programs and I want to back them up as tar.gz files on a server that I can access via ssh. The disk on the server is formatted in windows NTFS. It … Continue reading →

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RedHat 6.3 updates

Posted on 2012/09/27 by pauljohn

We have an external disk with RedHat 6.3 provided by tech support. We have to work from that base because it has the user ID system configured for the KU HOME domain.  Otherwise, I would dump that and just use … Continue reading →

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Centos 6.3 64 bit

Posted on 2012/09/24 by pauljohn

I just noticed my external disk for Centos was in 32 bit, and maybe we are safe to use 64. Installed a fresh Centos 6.3 and then tried to make a journal to summarize the updates/hassles. IN the process, I … Continue reading →

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Cisco AnyConnect VPN on RedHat/Centos Enterprise Linux

Posted on 2012/09/20 by pauljohn

I’ve just wasted several hours on configuring VPN for my university’s system. The University adopted Cisco AnyConnect, which is provided in a shell script “vpnsetup.sh”. There are several flaws in the script, however, which make this a relatively tough, confusing … Continue reading →

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