Here is a small overview of how (in)compatible computer operating systems are. Normal text files end the lines as follows: Windows: CR+LF Linux: LF OS X: CR In order to convert line ends here are few tricks I extracted from this page(many thanks to the author): http://kb.iu.edu/data/acux.html dos2unix and unix2dos The utilities dos2unix and unix2dos …

Introduction: as most Linux administrators know if you type the command, for example: host my.domain.com You get the resolving of the address ONLY through DNS resolving and NOT using the local /etc/hosts file first. Of course if you use the command: ping my.domain.com You get to see the IP which with be tried to be …

The following configuration will prevent an SSH session to terminate automatically upon long time of inactivity: File: ~/.ssh/config Content: Host * Protocol 2 TCPKeepAlive yes ServerAliveInterval 60 StrictHostKeyChecking = no

Sometimes we need to have a longer bash session timeout value to be able to stay logged-in while nothing is happening on the terminal. Here is the setting you can include in your .bashrc or .profile files: export TMOUT=0 This will set the shell session to have no timeout duration. export TMOUT=345600 This will set …