Unix systems offer many commands that can be used to pull information from your servers and help you prepare an inventory of your systems. Putting these commands into a script can be especially handy ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...

I recently had a chance to set up and then work with a console server. This was a first for me and so useful a device that I’ve become convinced that any systems administrator with more than a dozen ...

Any Linux server distribution is a very powerful server that performs above and beyond what your business might need. Whatever task you throw at the server, it will be ready. And, if it isn’t ready ...