Get the most out of bash is the article in the Systems Administration Toolkit series and it examines the features and utility of the bash shell. Ease your system administration tasks by taking advantage of key parts of the Bourne-again shell (bash…

Managing your authentication service across your network can be achieved in many different ways, but there is a solution that has been available for years that provides synchronized authentication service, and that was designed to work with the Ne…

Keeping a copy of the vital information that makes up your Unix environment could mean the difference between working again after a failure in hours compared to days. In the latest of my System Administrators Toolkit guide, I examine how best to i…

The latest article in my System Administration Toolkit series at IBM developerWorks has been released. This article on ways of simplifying and standardizing your environment and command-line tools within a heterogeneous environment. As someone who…

I’ve had more than one occasion when I’ve had to move a live filesystem to a new partition or new disk, whether its because I’m short on space on the original partition or through disk failure. I’ve put put my experience of that into my latest dev…