Learn the trending tools, troubleshooting guides, and how-to to become a better Sysadmin. You’ll find articles covering Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Web & Application servers, and many more.
Total 213 articles.
It often happens that we find a Linux system has rebooted in an unplanned way or due to unknown apparent reasons. Finding and resolving the root cause can help in preventing the recurrence of such issues and avoid unplanned downtime. There are several ways we can find out what triggered a reboot. In this article,…
As networking continue to evolve and increase in size, the configurations are becoming more complex and challenging to manage using conventional manual methods. Besides the traditional local and wide area networks, we now have the cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking, and other technologies that widen the coverage and the number of connected…
pip (or its recursive acronym “Pip Installs Packages”) is the package installer for Python. Python has an extensive index of available modules and packages that you can use in your projects. Often, downloading them or keeping them updated is a challenge, especially if your project is huge or needs to maintain multiple such projects. That’s…
Just like any other software, Windows 10 can also face problems while working. Sometimes the network or audio stops working, and in worst cases, Windows slows down to a crawl or doesn’t boot at all. Now manually solving these Windows problems can be quite a headache, especially if you lack the technical knowledge and have…
Let’s find out how you can keep your production reliable with the help of Chaos Engineering tools. Chaos engineering is a discipline where you experiment on your system or application to reveal its weaknesses and capacity failure. These are something that you did not think could happen while creating it. So, you would cause some…
Let’s learn how to install and configure MariaDB, an open-source popular MySQL Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). It is community developed and has the option of commercial support. MariaDB has been intended to remain highly compatible with MySQL though there are some deviations. In this article, we’ll be covering the installation and configuration of MariaDB…
One of the basic file system administration tasks involves creating, modifying, and deleting different types of files and directories. Knowing some basic tools and concepts for file deletion comes in handy and can save you time. Linux offers several tools that can help us accomplish file removal tasks. Often we need to remove not just…
lsof is a powerful utility available for Linux and Unix-based systems which literally stands for ‘list (of) open files’. Its main function is to retrieve details about various types of files opened up by different running processes. These files can be regular files, directories, block files, network sockets, named pipes, etc. With lsof, you can…
The new Start menu in Windows 10 is definitely one of the biggest upgrades to previous versions; right behind Cortana. It’s sleek, heavily customizable, and comes with cool live tiles that show live information from apps. No matter how powerful it may be, I personally don’t like the Windows 10 Start menu; it just looks…
SFTP or Secure File Transfer Protocol is a secure remote file transfer utility based on File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP traffic is unencrypted and insecure which is why it has been mostly replaced by SFTP. SFTP runs over SSH protocol by default on TCP port 22 and offers the same set of security and encryption…
English 
Français 
Español 
Deutsch
