Digitivity » Debian http://digitivity.org The Digital Productivity Blog Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Debian vs. Ubuntu Server http://digitivity.org/1137/debian-vs-ubuntu-server http://digitivity.org/1137/debian-vs-ubuntu-server#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:58:58 +0000 Digitivity http://digitivity.org/?p=1137 Posted in Articles

I was looking around for people’s opinions of running Debian vs. Ubuntu Server. A lot of people think there’s no reason to run Ubuntu because it’s just a derivative of Debian. One person has an actual difference between the two: Debian doesn’t have Upstart. Upstart is the init daemon which starts services, and restarts them [...] Related posts:
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]]> I was looking around for people’s opinions of running Debian vs. Ubuntu Server. A lot of people think there’s no reason to run Ubuntu because it’s just a derivative of Debian.

One person has an actual difference between the two: Debian doesn’t have Upstart. Upstart is the init daemon which starts services, and restarts them if they die. I find it incredibly useful.

Note that Debian 6 does have the service command, which is a lot easier to type than something out of /etc/init.d.

Also, the default Debian install seems to leave a little lacking as far as usability. For example, man doesn’t stop when you page to the end. Rather it falls off the bottom like Solaris, which is annoying.

And then there’s little stuff like no killall command. There’s kill, and there’s killall5, which kills all processes, not exactly what you want when you want to kill a process by name.

So after some experimenting with Debian, I’m back to Ubuntu.

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]]> http://digitivity.org/1137/debian-vs-ubuntu-server/feed 19 How to Restrict Users to SFTP Only Instead of SSH http://digitivity.org/979/how-to-restrict-users-to-sftp-only-instead-of-ssh http://digitivity.org/979/how-to-restrict-users-to-sftp-only-instead-of-ssh#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:45:00 +0000 Digitivity http://digitivity.org/979/how-to-restrict-users-to-sftp-only-instead-of-ssh Posted in Links

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/94

To give users upload ability without the ability to run commands. Related posts:RedHat Relents on Fedora Software Installation Policy RedHat’s Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Software Without Root with PolicyKit How to Log in to a Webserver Without a Password Using SSH Public Keys on Ubuntu Related posts:
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]]> To give users upload ability without the ability to run commands.

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