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 ...

Centralized management is one of the great joys of Linux, according to Jay Abel, vice president of Viata, a Honolulu-based ASP that's invested heavily in the open source operating system. "The tools ...

I currently work on a Desktop Support team at a university hospital. Our IS department does a good job at moving people around and some of us will end up on server team (mostly windows, novell, and ...

Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux. Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators, and even modern application and server ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trout Creek, Montana hardly seems like a place one would expect to find a center of Linux learning. Please do not tell Mike Weber of SpiderTools that. He spent the last six years developing one of the ...