Best practices state that you should run ssh on an non-standard port. Unfortunately some programs use port 22 by default and it isn’t obvious what the switch is to change this port. One of these programs is the eminently useful rsync. It states how to do this in the man file, but it is hidden […]

I created this Bash script as a project for the system administration course I’m taking for the summer. I’m sure there are bugs in it, so let me know if you find any. It basically uses an XML configuration file, which includes the source, destination, and any excludes from the transfer. You then pass either […]