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Looking for how to set
up RSync over SSH so that you can run it in a cron job, or without
entering a password?

It's actually very simple. Just follow these few steps:

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As the user you are going to be running rsync as, and on the machine you will be running rsync on, type: ssh-keygen -t rsa

Follow the prompts and use the defaults for the filenames it gives you.
Don't enter in a passphrase, otherwise you will still be prompted for a
password when trying to connect.

You should then have two new files in ~/.ssh, id_rsa and id_rsa.pub.

---- 2 ----

Open ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and copy the line in it to the
~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the host you will be connecting to as
the user you will be logging in as.

---- 3 ----

Now try it out. Try ssh'ing from the host you created the id_rsa* files
on to the one you added a line to the authorized_keys file. You won't
be prompted for a password any more.

---- 4 ----

Voila!
Thanks to http://freebsd.peon.net/quickies/21/

For those that know me on #ubuntu-uk you'll know i've got no problems with Windows, Microsoft or the way they practice their business. However, i don't use them on my systems at home, BUT, my wife does. I dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu and Vista. Imagine my surprise when she states, rather loudly, "oh my god windows is slow, can you install linux?", *FAINT* So this weekend i'll be removing windows and devoting the machine to linux ROCKIN

My baby is growing.....:)

Coz i was bored, i downloaded the Alpha5 version of the Hardy Heron and installed it onto my laptop, i'm sure there is something i can report, but to be honest it's only alpha and not that different [or so i can see] to the previous version of Ubuntu. I did notice a couple of things, default desktop background, what an improvement on the dull plain backdrops of previous releases.

From what i can see the default remote desktop viewer in Heron will be Vinagre, which is all well and good, BUT, i need to access and windows 2003 machine which is locked....er how do you send a CTRL+ALT+DELETE to the machine, er you can't. Surely if this is the default program it should actually perform what i think is a basic feature?

Other than that i'm liking what i'm seeing, then again it's only been on my machine a day and i'll need to play a little more. Actually one more thing, they've renamed Restricted Driver Manager to be Hardware Drivers, no wonder i couldn't find it

I'd like to announce that Beckie and I are expecting our first child,  we went for our first scan yesterday [all ok] and the due date is Sept 2nd.  While i'm totally scared about the unknown, to say i'm excited and thrilled is an understatement.  However after reading about baby poo i'm starting to change my mind

I don't have many icons on my desktop, but how many do you have on yours?

ls ~/Desktop | wc -l

I did use flickr to display my photos, but last night i hit a snag, with the free account [to be honest i didn't read the site properly] you only get space for 200 photos....Oh great, flickr account closed. I thought to myself, i run my own webserver, why am i not running my own gallery software? Well i am now, i've installed the gallery2 software, it works a treat, i'm uploading my photos as we speak You'll be able to see my photos here [eventually]

As most people will know, coz i kept going on about it I went to New York last weekend.  It was fabulous :)  I'm currently uploading images, a few are already online, you can see them in my gallery, i'll do a longer post later tonight

http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequiz.php

http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequiz2.php

I know i'm not using SUSE, but here's a nice image that would make a good wallpaper, if you use it let me know, it was kindly provided by a friend of mine Jade, he'll be chuffed you've used it

Image here

I've been playing counter strike: source recently, and i wondered if it's possible to run it under linux. So off i go and install wine, install the steam application and waited for the download of Counterstrike: source.

Hour or so later once it's download i run the app. It doesn't run, bugger, keeps complaining about the registry in use.....grrr windows. However good ole internet comes to the rescue, cd to the Program Files folder and run :

chattr -R +S Steam/

Woohoo runs fine.....good times ahead.