I was hoping that some of you who work in the industry might be willing to share some of your experiences as a UNIX systems administrator. I am still trying to figure out what to do with my life and ...

Last week I briefly departed from reality, thanks to the inexplicable actions of the CRTC, but this week, I’m off the drugs and back on terra firma — sort of. Anyway, to celebrate my return to the ...

Many server automation and orchestration solutions, like Puppet and Chef, rely on a mixture of solution-specific coding, Web UIs, and command-line tools to make the magic happen. Ansible is different.

I'm working on further developing my Unix skills and I'm just curious what some of the experienced admins out there would consider to be 10 essential commands every admin should know.

With the clocks turned back and the Big Vote about to happen, I’m up for a bit of nostalgia. And nothing pleases me more than doting on some of my favorite Unix commands, aliases and “tricks”.

From the looks of it, ZFS administration is significantly simpler than administration of other complex file systems such as Solaris Disk Suite and Veritas Volume ...

We’re not talking about the kind of funny that starts off with three Unix administrators walking into a bar. Were that the case I might be able to explain why Brendan Gregg’s collection of “freeware ...