The Root of Missing Mail

Like all conscientious system administrator I like to keep tabs on my servers.  One way of doing this is checking root’s email daily.  This is a great idea if you have a few servers and never take vacation!  I manage close to 100 servers, so I need a more efficient way of “hearing” my servers […]

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Recursive Gzip Sometimes Helps

Everyone knows that gzip’ing a file will usually make it smaller, but gzip’ing it again will not. In other words, once you’ve compressed a file, it won’t compress further.   But here’s an exception. If you make a file of … Continue reading

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