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Whether you're new to managing users and groups or just need a quick refresher, this tutorial will sharpen your sys admin chops.
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Tell us about how you manage superusers on your Linux and Unix servers and be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a Western Digital My Book Office 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive.
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If you think smart is intelligent or if you think yum is tasty, aptitude will expand your thoughts with attitude.
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If you use a Debian-based Linux distribution and you aren't familiar with the apt-get packaging system, you're apt to fall in love with it.
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Still deeper into the dot (.) with an dive into access permissions. Study up because there's going to be a quiz.
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Beginning with a brief tour of the filesystem, we take you deep into the dot (.) of your directory listing so you can get the most from your CLI.
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A confirmed GNOME superfan takes a new look at KDE 4.4 and likes it.
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Beef up your sysadmin toolkit by extending the powerful monitoring features of Nagios.
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Save time and gain functionality by starting your GUI apps from the command line.
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When 140 characters is all you need, the command line does it better.
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Need a performance boost for your reads from and writes to a database or other dynamic files? A RAM-based filesystem is just what the good system doctor ordered.
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Are you bewildered by disk management in Linux? Don't be. Here are the nuts and bolts of adding a new disk to your system.
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With the new year right around the corner, it's worth thinking about where you can get the biggest bang for your buck--quite literally. In a lot of organizations, budgeting is a funny exercise that requires you to "use it or lose it" at the end of the year while also having surprisingly detailed plans for next year's money.
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Programming in a higher-level language, it's often easy to forget about using lower-level Unix facilities in tricky situations. Here are a few examples to give you an idea of what you might be missing.
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A great team of system administrators can move mountains (of data). Here, learn how to form, norm, and storm with your colleagues.
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Ksplice is an amazing new technology which allows patches to be applied directly into a running kernel, without needing a reboot. Linux Magazine talks with co-founder and Chief Operating Officer and discusses the origins of the project and what it has to offer.
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Go get a copy of these books. The investment will pay huge dividends.
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If you manage a system, you need Chef. Here are some of the best Chef resources and cookbooks on Github.
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In this new weekly column, longtime Linux guru Matt Frye gives readers the full monty, the real trials and triumphs of a system administrator. This week: The care and feeding of software developers.
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If you don't know text, you don't know Linux. There are a host of methods for reformatting plain text -- including the text used by graphical applications like spreadsheets and email programs.
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