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Linuxcare: Dear Lina: Best Face Forward

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 18, 2000

“Dear Lina,”
What do I add to my /etc/inetd.conf file to turn on
masquerading?…”

“Dear Lina,
At work I’ve got a bunch of people at multiple workstations.
Everybody’s duties are different, yet each person’s work is
valuable enough to the department to backup. The problem is, our
folks are so busy working that they don’t have the time to back up
their own files.”

It would be really ideal if I could find a backup system
that’s so simple to maintain that when I back up my main server,
I’d simultaneously be backing up everyone else’s files as
well….

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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