This morning, I received a message from a friend who was reading a hack log, and she had some questions about the commands used. This got me thinking, as Linux has a ton of commands and some can be ...

The following is the continuation of a series of columns on Linux disasters and how to recover from them, inspired in part by a Halloween Linux Journal Live episode titled “Horror Stories”. You can ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I rely on every day, and you can benefit from them, too.

When I first started out in systems administration, I had only a few machines to keep track of. It was relatively easy to remember which servers did which functions (mostly because one or two machines ...