Linux System Administration

Whether you are an experienced system administrator or just a regular user, you have probably already mounted drives on Linux. Drives can be local to your machine or they can…

As a system administrator, you are probably already familiar with the LDAP protocol. If you are working in a medium to large company, you can be sure that your company…

As a network administrator, you are probably managing various Linux machines over different subnets of your company infrastructure. As network topology changes, you may need to change the IP address…

Network File Systems, also shortened NFS, are file systems that can be accessed over the network. Compared to filesystems that may be local to your machine, network file systems are…

When working on Linux operating systems, knowing how to get your IP address is essential. Getting your IP address is often the first step of most network troubleshooting processes. If…

If you are an experienced system administrator, and if you focus on network management, you have probably already heard about the Network Manager. Released in 2004 and developed by Red…

As a system administrator, it is quite likely that you have written some Bash scripts in order to automate your work. For example, you may want to run Bash scripts…

If you have been working with Linux systems for quite some time, you already know how important it is to keep your filesystem structured. In some cases, you may need…

When working with Bash and shell scripting, you might need to check whether a directory or a file exists or not on your filesystem. Based on this condition, you can…

In our previous tutorial on Bash, we have seen how you can effectively create, run and write simple conditional statements in Bash. You have discovered many concepts of Bash such…