Mitch's questions

In moodle the LMS you can export courses, as a tar.gz, some one said they were going to give me such a thing. I was suprised by the 6 gb size. I was even more suprised when I extracted it, and found the root directory to be the root of the server. The person giving me the course instead of exporting must have just tarred the entire server!!

How should I go about recovering this? Is there anyway to start this up in a virtual machine? I have a whole linux server, what to do? I could probably just hand pick the data files I need, but how to access a mysql database with out running mysql?

I am so stumped!

I've made some changes to sshd_config file and therefore need to restart. I'm looking tips on safely restarting ssh when getting physical access to the server would be a huga PITA.

I want to get the last 10 lines of multiple files. I know they all end with "-access_log". So I tried:

 tail -10 *-access_log 

But this gives me an error, where as:

tail -10 file-*

Gives me the output I'd expect. I would think this probably has more to do with BASH then tail. However commands like:

cat *-access_log

Work fine.

Any suggestions?