Linux is resplendent with administration tools. No matter what you need to monitor, Linux has a tool to suit your needs. You can monitor everything from file I/O, to network processes, and everything in between. You can test systems, check systems, start and stop systems…you name it. There are so many tools it’s hard to [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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User and group administration in Ubuntu 9.10
Linux is a true multi-user environment. This means that more than one user can be logged on at the same time. Because of this many Linux administrators have to deal with the administration of users and groups. Fortunately there are tools for this. From both the command line and the GUI, you can do just [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Help, I Use Ubuntu and There’s No “su”!
So you’ve just installed Ubuntu and you’re ready to tackle all those great administrative tasks you’ve heard about with Linux. You’ve even been briefly tempted to try the old rm -rf / command just to see if it’s really true that it will wipe away your entire computer as you watch it happen. Only problem [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Learning Linux: Log Files
If you are serious about learning Linux then one aspect you will want to familiarize yourself with is log files. This concept will help you to understand why when you go to a mailing list with a problem and, when someone asks you the contents of a particular log file, you are able to offer [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Application Monitor
Making sure that an application is running 24/7 on a computer system is not as easy as it sounds especially if that application does not have a restart option when it crashes. I suppose the usual suspects have their Auto IT or Auto Hotkey applications running in the background that monitor applications in their computer [...]