Home / user-1153

Drew Stephens's questions

Martin Hope
Drew Stephens
Asked: 2011-06-10 10:15:31 +0800 CST
  • 2

I've got a bunch of good stuff in my bash config. Normally when I get a new account, I pull this down from my GitHub repo so that I have all the aliases and features I'm used to. There are some hosts that I access which I don't have my own accounts on, but shared accounts that a bunch of people use, so it would be rude of me to install my shell config.

Is there a way to push my shell config, or at least some initialization commands, over the SSH session so that I have the environment I'm used to?

ssh shell
Martin Hope
Drew Stephens
Asked: 2009-12-01 12:28:38 +0800 CST
  • 1

I have an init script that does something like this in the start() function:

runuser -s /bin/bash - prog -c "nohup php /foo/bar.php 2>&1 >> /var/log/bar.log &"

When I SSH into the machine and call the init script:

server:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/foo restart

everything is fine—all output goes to bar.log as expected and I can logout.

However, if I call the init script directly from my SSH command:

workstation:~$ ssh server sudo /etc/init.d/foo restart

then the output comes to my local terminal, not the log, and I cannot close the SSH connection without losing all of that output (which is no longer going to the log file). Surely there's a better way to formulate the init script and any suggestions would be appreciated, but what's happening with the redirection in this example?

linux
Martin Hope
Drew Stephens
Asked: 2009-05-10 16:15:47 +0800 CST
  • 6

Prompted by the recent vulnerability in SHA-1 and admonitions to begin the process of moving away from that hash function, I'm playing around with GnuPG again. I was just wondering how other folks use the system. Use these questions as prompts, but I'd really like to hear about stuff I haven't even thought of.

What size keys are you using?

What sort of things do you have in your gpg.conf?

Do you have an expiration date on your keys?

Do you have a revocation certificate somewhere safe - perhaps with a trusted friend?

encryption gpg