Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

"It is certainly a tool that every system administrator should be aware of and use to automate mundane routine tasks such as backups and taking applications offline." It's common to need an action ...

I am a relatively new Linux user, running Mandrake 8.1 for about two months. I had a nice cron set up that ran a few Python scripts several times a day, but since I had to completely re-format and ...