According to payscale.com the "typical Salary for a Sun Solaris System Administrator in United States is $56,082 - $85,226." Payscale's software and data don't provide directly comparable Linux and ...

More than just about anyone, Unix systems administrators are going to be very reluctant to share passwords of any kind, but will never share our own. It’s bad enough if we have to share root passwords ...

I'm not exactly new to linux, but I've had a very long run where I haven't had much contact with it. My first was setting up smb to run a fileserver. I also learned either ipchains or iptables (can't ...

Sudo is one of the most powerful and dangerous tools in the Unix or Linux system administrator's toolbox. With it, an ordinary user can run commands just as if he or she were the superuser or any ...

Installing and updating the OS, managing user accounts, and looking after security are just a few of the primary responsibilities of a Linux systems administrator. While I don’t imagine that I’ll ever ...

Where do IT fundamentals fit in our modern, cloud- and abstraction-driven engineering culture? I was recently discussing the Sysadmin/DevOps/IT industry with a colleague, and we started marveling at ...

So after finishing up the only MS cert I need (MCITP:SA, not much point in going past that, it'd be paper-only), I want to start working towards a Linux cert. Linux+ seems like a good choice, plus it ...

We aren’t doing the next generation of Linux and Unix admins any favors by forgetting init scripts and fundamental tools I happened across a post on Reddit by chance, asking about textfile ...