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In linux how do I zip a file to a webdav remote directory? [closed]
Right now I am using Linux and want to create a zip file of some local folder on my Mac partition (Folder is too big for the linux partition) and make the zip file show up on my webdav. How do I ...
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Copy 10 million small files between remote servers (over web), linux systems, no SSH on source
Here is the situation:
Need to copy aprox 10 million of small files (1k - 50k each) from a single directory, between 2 remote servers over the web. Tried with FTP and SCP but failed since all files ...
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How do I get my Ubuntu laptop's display on the ubuntu desktop connected to the network?
My network consists of an ubuntu laptop and an ubuntu desktop connected via a router. Now, I want to work on my laptop and see the output on the desktop screen, through the network. How do I achieve ...
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How can I remotely lock a Windows 7 computer from linux command line?
How can I remotely lock a Windows 7 computer from linux command line?
They are both on the same lan.
It would also be cool to know how to unlock it, but that isn't as important to me as of now.
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“Wrapper” ssh script freezes when executing remote command
I am running OSX Mountain Lion and the remote server is CentOS 6. I have several scripts on my local machine that I want to run on the remote server and to that end, I thought to write one script that ...
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Can't connect to Virtual box remote screen on linux Fedora 17 host
I get trouble to use virtualbox remote screen on a linux host. I activated server in settings->display->remotedisplay and the port is 33333.
Then on linux I do :
$ rdesktop 127.0.0.1:33333
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Mounting local external hard drive on a remote machine
I have an external hard drive, which stores extremely large files. This is LOCAL and is connected to my laptop/desktop.
I run many different programs on a REMOTE Linux server.
I need to use some of ...
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Is there a GUI app to monitor remote load or memory use?
I'm administering a set of Linux servers with varying purposes, and occasionally when I run maintenance tasks I'd like to see how each of the servers handles them. For this I need to open several ...
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How to setup a Linux machine to remotely use laptop screen as a second display?
I would like to reopen this question, because it is NOT a duplicate of that question. I am using Kubuntu 12.10, or Mint 14 - any of these two will do. Synergy offers similar functionality, but does ...
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Ways to remotely reboot a Linux system
I had a remote server running Debian Sarge that experienced some HDD failure and I meant to reboot it hoping that fsck could repair the errors automatically. I eventually drove out there and replaced ...
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How to prevent gnu screen capturing the mouse?
I want to use local scrollback on my terminal, whilst using gnu screen. That's because my network connection is incredibly slow, so using screen's scrollback is very slow. Local scrollback is much ...
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Gnu screen with local scrollback buffer?
I'm using a remote server over a very slow and unreliable network connection.
So, I want to use gnu screen in order not to lose what I'm doing whenever I get disconnected.
But I want a local ...
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scp/sshfs on a remote 'not direct acessable' machine
Maybe the title must be changed but I have the following situation:
I can ssh to a host A
From A, I can ssh into a machine B, but this machine cannot be accessed from my computer. The name of the ...
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How can I use a remote machine for swap space?
I have two Linux boxes, one of which doesn't have much RAM or disk space. How would I go about setting up a swap file on the second machine for the first to use?
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Remote Linux system via Windows 7
I have a dual boot with Windows 7 and Fedora. Though I can log into both without any problems, I am trying to log in to the Linux account via the Windows account. Is that possible?
Or, is it possible ...
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Read-only vnc connection to an existing X11 session
I need to allow people to view (but not affect) my X11 session remotely.
tightvncserver has a read-only password, but doesn't work with existing sessions.
x11vnc works with existing sessions, but ...
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How can I remote control mac from a linux machine?
I have a Mac Mini without a display and I'd like to remote control it, including desktop sharing, from a Linux machine.
My goal is to use XCode on the Mac Mini for iOS development.
What are my ...
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How to remotely connect to VMware linux machine hosted on Windows 7
I would like to remotely connect to a linux (Fedora) vmware machine hosted on a Windows7 desktop machine.
My understanding is that this should work.
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Does Linux screen slow down a process running remotely?
I am running a process that is uploading a large file to Amazon S3 in a Linux screen (byobu). The programs outputs progress of the upload as it runs (s3cmd). Since the process is running remotely, and ...
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Running GUI applications available in the remote CLI based server in a local CentOS based machine
I have two machines connected in LAN. One with CentOS with GUI support (say that's local to me) and other a CLI based server. I would like to run applications available in the remote CLI based server ...
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Loading and running remote applications with Linux. Not ssh
I am wanting to load an application from a remote Linux pc and run it on the one that I am sitting at. My goal is different than just using telnet or ssh, because by doing that I would still be ...
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Executing local script/command on remote server
I have a command that I want to run on machine B from machine A. If I run the command on machine B locally, it works fine.
Here is the command:
for n in `find /data1/ -name 'ini*.ext'` ; do echo ...
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Remotely access Linux directory from Windows
How can I remotely access a Linux directory on my home network from a Windows machine at work?
Ultimately, I would like to map the Linux partition or directory as a Network Drive in Windows 7 so I ...
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Linux CLI Connect Manager?
I am looking for a connection manager for Linux that runs in the CLI. To be clear, by connection manager I mean a program that allows you to create, save, and quickly launch remote connections. ...
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Which application to use in Linux when the remote PC is Windows-based and behind a firewall and I need access?
I have a situation where I am in Europe and the remote PC is in USA. So my duty falls back always when my time is 1am and I need remote access to a new PC in USA for configuration and setup. They are ...
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running tail -f on a server which connects to another server over ssh
I have been using the following command to connect to a server, which connects to another server and runs tail -f on it:
ssh server1.com ssh server2.com tail -f file.log
This so far works fine. ...
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Extend own desktop with another one over the network in Linux
My colleague and myself are working together in the same room and each using two monitors which are placed side by side, so we can observe the work of each other.
In most cases one of us discovers an ...
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faster way to mount a remote file system than sshfs?
I have been using sshfs to work remotely, but it is really slow and annoying, particularly when I use eclipse on it.
Is there any faster way to mount the remote file system locally? My no.1 priority ...
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Is there aSSH Remote Fowarding source restriction?
The following command will allow me to view Google.com on localhost:9999
ssh user@mywebsite -R localhost:9999:www.google.com:80
but the following command will not allow me to view Google.com on ...
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Linux console session over HTTP?
I'd like to remotely administer my Linux machine at home whilst I'm at work. Only ports 80 and 443 are avaiable, through an HTTP proxy. I don't want to install tunnelling software.
What I really need ...
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How to connect to a remote server and run some code on that particular server?
I am implementing an automated backup scheme so I created a shell script which first creates SQL dumps for all MySQL databases, then retrieves all websites from the /var/www directory of a remote ...
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Load windows from within Linux
I have an unusual question and I think it is really hard :-)
What I want to achive is a way to be able to remotly configure which operating system is booted on a client machine.
E.g. I have Windows ...
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Accessing the Desktop of a Linux Machine (server) throught Remote Access
I was looking for:
how to access my Linux machine(OpenSuse 11.3) that is being hosted at my hoster company from my home Win Pc, I found TightVNC , but I am confused, should I install it on both ...
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Transfer video & sound from PC A to PC B and Mouse & Keyboard from PC B to PC A
Is there a possibility to transfer the video & sound from PC A to PC B and the Mouse & Keyboard from PC B to PC A?
I'm out of this age but for better understanding I'm going to provide the ...
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Access Windows box from Linux
how can I access Windows box from Linux both GUI, or non GUI? opposite of something like VNC or SSH.
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mounting remote hard disk (Linux)
I have a machine running Ubuntu 10.04. I have a VPS (virtual private server) also running Ubuntu Linux. The VPS has a dedicated IP.
I want to have a setup, so that the directories on the VPS are ...
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Get Apple Remote (Unibody) working on linux?
Has anyone managed to get one of the newer Apple Remotes (Unibody, Aluminium design) working on Linux ? What IR Receiver are you using ? I had no luck with the ones i tried...
Thank you !
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How do you connect to a remote linux server (graphically) with Open Text Exceed
I have a server which I need to connect to and run a graphical program on. I know that you can do this with Open Text Exceed, but it's been years since I've done this and the last time I did it was ...
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pscp copy file remotely from Windows to Linux
I need to copy file from my Windows XP system to remote Linux system.
Win location : c:\1.txt
LInux location:/tmp
What should be the command?
EDITED: pscp is recognized and OK on my PC.I CAN ...
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sftp disabled, but have ssh access. How to mount?
some lab computers at my university have sftp disabled.
However, I have normal ssh access.
Obviously I don't have root permissions on these computers.
I need to transfer a fair amount of VHDL ...
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How to add or commit files to assembla repository from linux?
I know how to commit a file and add a file on a linux svn but how do I commit or add a file to my assembla svn from linux ?
Let's say I am working on my project:
svn co ...
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How do I find and kill remote processes in Linux?
I am developing a daemon that is acting up and I am now unable to create any new processes (ie. I cannot start a new process to kill the other rogue processes). So, I need to be able to kill the ...
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Sync server and client
Maybe I should start with the problem:
I work as a part-time consultant developing webpages, both back end and front end.
When developing a back end application I'm using a server running ubuntu ...
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Putting a remote syslog into its own file
I have a Tomato router and it has the capability to have its logs go to a external server. syslog is the obvious choice for this. So I enabled remote logging on my linux server's syslogd (syslogd -r) ...
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How to connect to remote X-Server (logged in via ssh)
When I'm logged on to another host (e.g via ssh), how do I connect to the XServer of that machine (same user is logged in and is running a desktop (gnome))?
You may ask way I wish to do that: There ...
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Why NetBeans ( php - remote project ) change permission of files to 0600?
I'm using NetBeans for editing some php files ( in a php project ) at remote server.
all go normal, but when saving the edited file using NetBeans, the file's permissions are set to 0600 by default, ...
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How can I launch a local application remotely?
I use TextMate on Mac OS X to develop. The files I need to edit are on a Linux machine, and I have the Linux filesystem mounted on my Mac OS X. Opening the files and saving them in TextMate is not a ...
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How to setup a Linux machine to remotely use laptop screen as a second display? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I use my laptop as a second monitor for my desk computer?
I am looking for a similar solution to MaxiVista, but for Linux (Ubuntu). I have an Ubuntu machine with ...
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Installing CentOS on remote machine?
Can I do a fresh install of CentOS Linux on a remote machine?
I have a machine with Windows NT in a remote location. Now I want to use that system as my deployment machine. To proceed with my plan I ...
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how to remotely open an URL in Firefox in a specific profile?
I have several instances of Firefox with several different profiles
running. Among them profiles with the names "software" and "test".
I am trying to open an URL from a bash script to have it open in
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