Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

print_yellow "Cleaning up Duo Unix archives and source directories in $target_dir..." local DUO_TARBALLS=( "duo_unix-2.2.2.tar.gz" "duo_unix-2.2.1.tar.gz" "duo_unix-2 ...

This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve “real ...

Whenever you have worked out the perfect logic in the script you’re preparing, do one more thing. Take a reusable snapshot of the logic you’ve written and tested and save it in a template for the next ...

Collection of Bash scripts designed to enhance system administration and user management tasks on Unix-like systems. These scripts aim to automate various aspects of system monitoring, user behavior ...

In my initial days of programming, I have spent hours trying to find the error in my code, and in the end, it might be something simple. You might have faced the same ...