Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

I have several Linux machines on my network, each serving a different purpose. I frequently need to transfer files back and forth between them, and I'd rather not do so via a cloud service, email, or ...

I have a 12GB file on one machine (UFS file system), and I need to transfer it to another, same OS, same file system. SFTP halts at exactly 2^31 - 1 bytes into the transfer (the 2GB limit on some file ...

If you have more than one Linux computer, you probably use ssh all the time. It is a great tool, but I’ve always found one thing about it strange. Despite having file transfer capabilities in the form ...

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide. Okay, here's the scenario. We have a couple of web servers that need to transfer some data out to another server on the internet. One is ...