Stories by Sandra Henry-Stocker

How to manage user accounts and keep your Linux users happy

Environment variables on Unix systems -- how to understand, modify, and appreciate them

Things to watch and tools to use to make sure your Unix/Linux systems maintain their health and vigor

The day that we've all been waiting for or waiting to get beyond is now upon us. As one of the most contentious political elections ever crashes to a close, it's time to think like the techies we are. So, here are some reasons why scripts are so much better and often more reliable than politicians.

clever use of history commands to help you move faster on the command line

Linux reaches the age of 25 with more than ten times that number of distributions to date. Can any of us wrap our brains around where it has gone and what it has become?

You can do a lot more with your command line font colors than turn them on and off. How about picking your own colors? How about customizing your prompt so that it balks when you make a mistake?

The top command's many options allow you to be creative when you're looking into system performance

With the right group of options, you can get rsync to do just what you want and nothing more