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• Charly's Column

  The siege of Troy is said to have taken 10 years, ending only after Odysseus introduced a wooden horse into the mix. Charly is planning a siege, too, and the target is his own web server. Of course, he doesn't have 10 years to complete the task, and Odysseus isn't on his team.

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• The sys admin's daily grind: Let's Encrypt wildcards

  The pleasure of owning a nice domain like sensorenresidenz.de is clouded by the requirement of an X.509 certificate for every subdomain that the admin wants or has. Columnist Charly can help boost the webmaster's spirits.

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• Charly’s Column: Cluster SSH

  Charly doesn’t relish the idea of searching through the logfiles of a dozen proxy servers when page requests fail. Now that he has deployed Cluster SSH, he can pull the strings on many machines at the same time.

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• Charly's Column: Nmon

  Nmon monitors system information. You can use the Nmon’s capture mode to output data to a file, then extract the values you need with a script.

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• Charly's Column – Searx

  It goes against the economic rationale to assume that commercial search engines have the best interests of users at heart when it comes to data protection and use. Sys admin Charly has found an alternative.

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