Using insecure protocols leaves your data and connected machines vulnerable to attack. Remote server management requirements demand that security be given a top priority. This article explains my ...

It's a good idea to get into the habit of full paths in all shell scripts and cron jobs, the environment can be rather different to what you're expecting. I tend to declare commonly used binaries in ...

I am a relatively new Linux user, running Mandrake 8.1 for about two months. I had a nice cron set up that ran a few Python scripts several times a day, but since I had to completely re-format and ...