using separate environments for people using single account
there is this situation: multiple people have to have access to single system account on unix/linux. you are one of them, but you really want to have your own environment. aliases, path, and so on....
View ArticleSlow vim startup
I had today a very weird situation. From my laptop, I ssh to another system, and from there to yet another. On this final system I noticed that vim starts relatively slow. i.e. this command: time vim...
View ArticleA tale of slow ssh connections
At home I have couple of machines, but one of them takes relatively long time to login to. It looks like this: =$ time ssh blob id -u 1000 real 0m0.401s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.000s While 0.4s is not...
View ArticleOmniPITR 0.5.0
Today, I released new version of OmniPITR – 0.5.0. This new version has one important new feature – which is so called “direct destination" for backups. What it means? What it does? How it helps? Let's...
View ArticleWhy I like tmux?
For those of you that don't know – Tmux is program similar to screen, but written from scratch, with different functionality, approach, and capabilities. I would like to show one particular case where...
View ArticleReconnecting to SSH servers
In my work I'm often in situation where I want to restart remote server, and then immediately connect to it over ssh. This can be done by repeating ssh HOST in shell, but it gets tedious. I can also...
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