[lug] 3 Questions: 1) Port Forwarding 2) Unison 3) Job Management Software 4) Test Apache

[Gordon Golding]

1)  Port Forwarding

>>>>>>>>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Daniel Webb wrote:
> Did you realize you can run servers on a machine behind a firewall with
 a single SSH command, changing nothing on the firewall?  ...  I have written a small script to keep a tunnel up all the time as well if anyone has a use for it.

Does anyone have Daniel's email address?  I want to get that script, so I can automate backups from remote locations (non-addressable or behind Firewalls) to a central Backup Server.

2)  Anybody know anything about Unison?  I want to install it on a RedHat Enterprise machine.  Being from GNU (Debian) - I generally trust them when they say: "works on various... including Linux..."
I have a user who can't even handle remembering to plug his automated Backup drive into his Laptop when he puts it on his desk.  So I want to use the Windows to Linux Sync features.
Any feedback on Unison?

3)  Any thoughts on Job Management Software?
I want to set up servers to do automated Backup and Status-type tasks.
ie - Do Backups, filter some logs and post advisories, test that Apache isn't frozen, connect with home base and send the backups, etc.
I can start writing scripts, but in the past, I lived in large environments with such systems.   
As things get more complicated and have more dependencies, it's nice to have a package in place.
Any thoughts?  

4)  I have a number of Servers up.  Regularly, Apache freezes.  I can look at processes, I don't see anything wierd, but it does respond to a Browser.
Any idea how a Server can actually see if Apache is reponding to connects?

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Gordon Golding
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