How to compile syslog-ng from source (Centos 5.3)

I manage several dedicated servers for various clients and just recently decided to setup syslog-ng.
syslog-ng is an open source implementation of the Syslog protocol for *NIX. It extends the orig…

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Quick backups with ssh and gzip
As a SysAdmin I sometimes need to make quick backups of a filesystem to a remote machine. Unix provides easy and quick ways to do this t…

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#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout 180
set host [lindex $argv 0]
set user root
# user is root here but is can be an other and after send a “su” to do serious things

set password [lindex $argv 1]
set cmd [lindex $argv 2]

# you can spawn ssh ftp, whatelses…
spawn /usr/bin/telnet $host
# keep in mind that the login strings can be other
expect “ogin: ”
send “$user\r”
expect “assword: ”
send “$password\r”
# of course the prompt can be also other
expect “root# ”
send “$cmd\r”
expect “root# ”
send “exit\r”
expect eof

– end of the script

Pascal.

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LeNNY