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Myths, gods, and titanic disasters: How servers really get their names

Last month we looked into the practice of naming servers, half expecting to discover it was a quirky, geeky thing to do -- and nothing more. To our surprise, readers flooded the story with comments, chiming in about their own naming schemes. Want a server to last forever? Name it Belgarath. Feel like tempting fate? Name it Hindenberg or Titanic. Looking for a suitable name for a mail server? Try Pegasus, Newman, or Norman Mailer.

posted by abennett | Feature | Offbeat | 03/04/09 at 4:19 pm | Linux, systems administration, Unix


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Would a server by any other name be as functional?

If you name your main file server after a depressive alcoholic playwright can you really expect it to be anything other than problematic?

posted by jfruh | Opinion | Offbeat | 01/30/09 at 10:19 am | servers, systems administration, Unix


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Long listings for the ps command

If you've ever been frustrated by ps output that is truncated at the edge of your 80-column terminal window, let's take a look at the options that various Unix systems provide for showing you what you really want to see.

posted by Sandra Henry-Stocker | How-to | Operating systems | 08/07/08 at 11:15 am | long listing, ps -ef, ps aux, ps output, Sandra Henry-Stocker, systems administration, Unix


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Unix and long usernames

Working around problems caused by usernames with more than eight characters is generally easy, but isn't it time we stop having to abide by limitations created 40 years ago?

posted by Sandra Henry-Stocker | How-to | Development | Operating systems | 07/30/08 at 6:20 pm | 8-character limits, passwd, ps, Sandra Henry-Stocker, systems administration, Unix


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Setting up a proxy web server with Apache

Setting up a forward web proxy with Apache involves a very simple and quick procedure. From start to finish, it should take you roughly half an hour. Let's examine the process step by step.

posted by Sandra Henry-Stocker | How-to | Internet | Open Source | 07/24/08 at 10:59 am | Apache, installation, proxy, Sandra Henry-Stocker, systems administration, Unix


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Unix Tip: More on bc

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Unix Tip: Using bc for big calculations

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Unix Tip: Mail loops back to me

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Unix Tip: Burning bootable DVDs

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