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 ...

I've got an extremely high interest in networking and unix in general. im 17 years old and im debating on whether or not i should goto a fancy school like RIT or WPI or just goto UConn and get my ...

As a system administrator, what better way to know the platform you work with than to put it together into a working, cohesive whole? When you build Linux from scratch, you come to fully and ...

Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide by Wale Soyinka is a hands-on manual for IT staffers who must dance with Windows and Linux. It is a practical guide for network admins who deploy and maintain ...

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 ...

I was hoping that some of you who work in the industry might be willing to share some of your experiences as a UNIX systems administrator. I am still trying to figure out what to do with my life and ...

Last week I briefly departed from reality, thanks to the inexplicable actions of the CRTC, but this week, I’m off the drugs and back on terra firma — sort of. Anyway, to celebrate my return to the ...

Linux can have a somewhat split personality. If you use it as a desktop OS, it has a lot of GUI tools, although sometimes you still need to access the command line. If you use it as a headless server, ...

Many server automation and orchestration solutions, like Puppet and Chef, rely on a mixture of solution-specific coding, Web UIs, and command-line tools to make the magic happen. Ansible is different.

They were supposed to be replaced years ago. Somehow, we are still using them!