The "cloud" is where we've been sharing our lives and storing our files for awhile now, but with so many cloud services there's much more you can do that may not have crossed your mind. Here are our top ten ideas. Read the rest of the story

When using the SendMail Restricted SHell (smrsh) for mailing to programs, the programs themselves, or symbolic links to the programs, must be placed in /etc/smrsh. Read the rest of the story

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Welcome to Agile Web Operations – a blog to help web developers and operations bridge the deployment gap. Successful web development requires both solid coding and in-depth operational know-how. No matter whether you come from an development or an system administration background, you need to be a master of both worlds: You need to live [...]

I hope fring and skype work this out. It is not good for the users when companies such as Skype don’t play well with others. Think “What Would Google Do?” Google wants users to come to their service through any means. Regardless of how we use Skype, Skype is still benefiting from the use.

Now, what will you, as a system administrator, use to watch logs? Logwatch, of course. As so many others have succinctly put it, messing with log files is a royal pain in the backside. Logwatch makes the experience of keeping track of system activity almost painless for you. Read the rest of the story

When a machine won’t boot users often panic. But with the right tools, a seasoned IT pro can often revive a seemingly unbootable PC or at the very least recover the user’s data. During this episode of TR Dojo, I highlight the following five Linux rescue tools for recovering Windows, Mac, or Linux machines: Read [...]

This is the best tutorial on Apache mod_rewrite I've ever read. I think, finally, the light bulb is going off. This easy to understand guide with useful examples will show you how to redirect virtually anything on an Apache server. Unlike most websites, we describe in detail how the redirections and regex works so you [...]