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Extra bash improvements
If you’ve read my Getting the most out of bash article at IBM developerWorks then you be interested in some further bash goodness and improvements. Juliet Kemp covers some additional tricks on Improving bash to make working with bash easier. Some …
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Systems Administration Toolkit: Get the most out of zsh
The latest article in my Systems Administration Toolkit series is available, this time looking at the zsh shell environment. Like the piece on bash which is also now available, I look at some of the history of zsh, the main features, and what make…
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System Administration Toolkit: Get the most out of bash
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…
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System Administration Toolkit: Swap space management and tricks
In a new article in my System Administration Toolkit series I examine the role of swap space in your Unix /Linux system and how to configure and optimize your swap space usage. I also demonstrate a few tricks for helping you out when you run our o…
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Using alternative methods to manage and monitor your Unix Servers
I have for a long time been using a number of non-typical solutions for the management of my internal servers and, up until recently, those of my clients. I mentioned this in one of my first posts at Computerworld (RSS as and administration tool),…
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Making a single extractor
One of my new articles is on smplifying your command line (read more about System Administrators Toolkit: Standardizing your UNIX command-line tools, making your life easier as you move between different environments. The same principles can be ap…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Managing NIS services for authorizations
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…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Backing up key information
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…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Standardizing your UNIX command-line tools
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…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and moving UNIX directory trees
As an extension of the original filesystem piece, I’ve taken a closer look at the methods available for simply moving around directory trees on the Unix filesystem, including across a network. Occasionally, you need to copy around an entire UNIX d…