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Seamless SSH

I’m transitioning my daily work desktop from OS X Leopard to Kubuntu Hardy. (I’ll be writing more about that in the future.) My job is split between managing people and doing development and system administration for a bunch of Ubuntu boxes, so running the same platform that I’m administering makes a lot of sense. I [...]

Posted 09 June 2008 † schof § Shell Scripting § security ‡ Comments (0)

Terminally Incoherent’s “Linux Fuckup Of The Day” — Using Single-User Mode To Recover

From Terminally Incoherent:
Yep. I just removed myself from all the groups except for vboxusers. Brilliant! I absolutely hate when I do stupid shit like that. It’s not like this was hard to fix – I just didn’t remember of the top of my head what groups I was supposed to belong to. Of course since [...]

Posted 25 June 2007 † schof § Computers § Linux ‡ Comments (2)

Resolving a Very Uninformative Debootstrap Error Message

So I’m trying to do an install with debootstrap onto a virgin partition. From my custom Ubuntu-based distribution. And I get the following error message:
E: Couldn’t find these debs: 33024830
The error code itself is not Googleable, because it apparently changes for each install. (I got several different codes during the course of my troubleshooting.) Google [...]

Posted 22 May 2006 † schof § Linux ‡ Comments (0)