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 ...

The Linux job market is very hot right now, particularly for those with system administration skills. But how does one get started? The Linux Foundation has an interesting page about the evolution of ...

I have been a Linux advocate for about ten years now. The first version of Linux I installed was Red Hat 3.0.3. I had used a UNIX-based system in graduate school, and I was somewhat familiar with how ...

Sorry if this has been posted before. I searched and didn't find anything.<BR><BR>The question is; how do/did you become a unix systems administrator. I am not one so I can't share an experience but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virtualization makes it all too easy to spawn new instances rather than figuring out what went wrong. Is this the end of Unix best practices? From some of the feedback I received via email and in the ...

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