Linux System Administration

As a network administrator, you probably know how costly routers can be. If you are configuring a complex network architecture, you might need Cisco or Netgear routers, as they embed…

In our previous tutorials, we have seen that implementing LVM volumes can be very beneficial in order to manage space on your host. The Logical Volume Management layer exposes an…

If you are working in a medium to large company, you are probably interacting on a daily basis with LDAP. Whether this is on a Windows domain controller, or on…

From all the compression methods available, Zip is probably one of the most popular ones. Released in 1989 by Philip Katz, Zip is widely used by system administrators in order…

On Linux, it can be quite hard to manage storage and filesystems and it often needs a lot of different commands to move data. Traditional storage is usually made of…

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…