Hamish Downer's user avatar
Hamish Downer's user avatar
Hamish Downer's user avatar
Hamish Downer
  • Member for 14 years, 11 months
  • Last seen more than 2 years ago
267 votes
Accepted

Copying a large directory tree locally? cp or rsync?

137 votes
Accepted

How to get Apache2 to redirect to a subdirectory

78 votes

How to Chown a directory recursively including hidden files or directories

54 votes

Best practices for setting a cron job for Let's Encrypt (Certbot) renewal?

26 votes
Accepted

Xen vs. VirtualBox under heavy load?

23 votes

What is the single most influential book every sysadmin should read?

22 votes
Accepted

What are useful .screenrc settings?

18 votes
Accepted

Ubuntu, how to setup a new machine like an existing one

11 votes

How should I securely wipe data from a hard drive?

11 votes

Solving multilib version problems

8 votes

How to setup simple firewall on Ubuntu?

7 votes

(Soft) RAID 6 on Ubuntu 7.10, should I migrate to 8.10?

7 votes

What tool(s) can I use to simulate a WAN for HTTP traffic?

7 votes

Renaming files in linux with a regex

5 votes

What useful things can one add to one's .bashrc?

5 votes
Accepted

Ubuntu: How to decrypt home directory, swap (basically everything) without reinstalling?

4 votes
Accepted

Backup strategy for eCryptfs

4 votes

Which free open source CPanel and WHM alternatives do you recommend/use?

4 votes

Do I need to defrag unix filesystems?

4 votes

Is the F.U.D. about ext4 justified? Or would it be safe to use in some production systems?

3 votes

Suggestions for entries in a sysadmins .vimrc

3 votes

Howto install recent mono on a Linux distro other than Suse (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu)?

3 votes
Accepted

How do I setup a public static IP in Ubuntu 9.10

3 votes

Adding a yum repo to puppet before doing anything else

3 votes

How do I find the UUID of a file system?

3 votes

How paste text from firefox to GVIM on ubuntu11?

3 votes

openssl s_client reports certificate OK, but other clients report problems

2 votes
Accepted

Installing VNC or equivalent service on Ubuntu 10.4 minimal via SSH

2 votes
Accepted

Installing trunk Mono on Ubuntu

2 votes

Linux console is unusable when LDAP server is down