Excerpt from Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook: Performance analysis and tuning are often likened to system administration witchcraft. They’re not really witchcraft, but they do qualify as ...

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fifth Edition, is today’s guide to installing, configuring, and maintaining any UNIX or Linux system, including systems that supply core Internet and ...

Linux Mint 23 will expand its System Administration tool (mintsysadm) with a new Users section, enabling post-install home ...

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

It’s almost our least favorite day of the year — Tax Day! And with a good portion of us e-filing and some of us even expecting a refund, maybe it’s a good time to review how what we do as Unix ...

The computing giant on Thursday will unveil a plan code-named N1 that will make it easier for customers to administer their profusion of computing products. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Linux old-timers revel in reminding newcomers that they used to have to do everything by hand, at the command line, uphill, both ways, with duct tape for shoes. What really gets some of these folks ...

Linux system administration has a place of its own in the hierarchy of information technology specializations. Some people excel in special areas of free software technology but haven't needed to ...

From the looks of it, ZFS administration is significantly simpler than administration of other complex file systems such as Solaris Disk Suite and Veritas Volume ...