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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux system administration encompasses managing the software and hardware of Linux systems, which can be complex, especially for those new to Linux or managing multiple systems. Fortunately, Webmin, ...

You can spend 50-60 hours a week managing your Unix servers and responding to your users' problems and still feel as if you're not getting much done or you can adopt some good work habits that will ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...

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 ...