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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’re not talking about the kind of funny that starts off with three Unix administrators walking into a bar. Were that the case I might be able to explain why Brendan Gregg’s collection of “freeware ...