Monitoring disk I/O on a Linux system is crucial for every system administrator. When performing basic system troubleshooting, you want to have a complete overview of every single metric on…
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Whether you are a Linux system administrator or a DevOps engineer, you spend a lot of time tracking performance metrics on your servers. You may sometimes have instances that are…
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In one of our previous articles, we learnt how you can encrypt your entire root filesystem on Linux easily. However, in some cases, you may want to encrypt one simple…
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DNS, short for the Domain Name System protocol, is used on Linux systems in order to retrieve IP addresses associated with names. For example, when you are performing a ping…
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If you are working in a medium to big-sized company, it is quite likely that you are working with many other system administrators. As you are performing your sysadmin tasks,…
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As a system administrator, you probably already know how important it is to encrypt your disks. If your laptop were to be stolen, even a novice hacker would be able…
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When using Git, it is quite common for developers to add new files to their repositories during development. Most of the time, files are associated with commits. Developers often start…
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If you are a conscientious system administrator, you have probably already wondered how you can make your files secure. Nowadays, as system attacks get more and more frequent, it isn’t…
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As a system administrator, you are probably dealing with a lot of services every day. On Linux, services are used for many different purposes. They may be used in order…
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On Linux, the root account is probably one of the most powerful accounts that there is. Considered the most privileged account on a Unix system, root can perform any tasks…