Linux

After many years of little change in Linux we, as administrators, now have a few changes making their way into Enterprise Linux distributions. Upstart is a welcome change to the sys init scripts we have…

If you want to implement a simple low maintenance Version Control System on your Ubuntu Linux server, then perhaps, etc keeper is worth looking at. It provides a simple automation to the VCS bzr but…

A Kernel Crash Dump refers to a portion of the contents of volatile memory (RAM) that is copied to disk whenever the execution of the kernel is disrupted. The following events can cause a kernel…

It is normal in Linux for the iptables module to control what we know as the firewall and this remains the case with UFW. UFW provides, perhaps, a more simple command line interface to iptables…

In many environments Active Directory from Microsoft may still be very prevalent and if you are using Linux servers it will make sense that we can have a single Authentication domain and that is like…