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Anyone who runs Linux servers remotely knows that you can do almost ANYTHING from the CLI. One of the more tricky things to do is install a new kernel. Too often, if there is an error in the new kernel build the machine will kernel panic and lock up.
The only way [...]

crontab is a scheduling system available on most linux distributions
Sometimes users will create cron jobs that will slow a server down. Access to cron can easily be restricted to all users but the administrator by editing /etc/cron.allow
If, for example, root and only one person (with username user) should be the only ones [...]

To a Windows user the Linux Directory Structure can seem very foriegn. Here is a quick synopsis of the standard top level Directory Structure on a standard Linux box.
/ : The top level directory in the system. This is often called the root directory, because it is the ‘root’ of the filesystem, though there is, [...]

If you dump core files you can run into a problem where multiple core files are dumped and one will overwrite the others. One solution to this problem is to change the Linux kernel so it will dump core to a file named core.pid .
Starting in the 2.4.x kernel series this can be accomplished by [...]

OK, this one is for the techies out there. Found a great bash tutorial the other day and thought I’d share it.
It doesn’t have just the standard lame stuff, I actually learned quite a bit. Things like
!xyz:p will print the command that would be executed rather than executing it
and
!$ is the “end” [...]