Daily Archives: October 25, 2006

Remote ssh rsync linux backups with certificates and no passwords

 in Backup / Linux / Scripting / Security  tagged Backup / Certificates / Linux / Password / Private Key / Rsync by

Uber quick howto:  (based on Debian) 1. Make sure ssh, rsync and sudo are installed and working. 2. Add a user account,  on remote system. 2.a Add a certificate with openssl or ssh-keygen (look that up elsewhere) 2.b Make sure the cert is unencrypted with no password. Yes,  that is […]

Debian apt error mmap ran out of room 1

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I spent quite a while searching for solutions to this issue: Reading Package Lists… Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room I found several posts and sites that mention updating the cache limit, but that did not work. Here’s what I found though. First, create the file if it […]