If you really want to see what's happening beneath the hood of your Linux distribution, you need to use log files.

Log files on Linux systems contain a LOT of information — more than you'll ever have time to view. Here are some tips on how you can make use of it without ... drowning in it.

Quick: What’s the first thing you do when you need to troubleshoot a Linux server? If you answered, “Check log files,” give yourself a cookie because you answered correctly.

Building your own Linux print server can be a fun and cheap way to repurpose old hardware into something useful.

Jack Wallen shows you how to sync files across a network on Linux with a simple command line tool.

Whether it's for the home or home office, a Linux server can provide an array of digital services for the family or a budding business.

There are a few other commands to find large files on Linux; fd, for example, is a faster alternative. But find is typically installed by default and it’s usually all you need.

I've successfully joined the system to my AD domain. wbinfo works, getent works, but trying to login to the server via ssh with my AD account(or even to see a samba share) fails.I've configured ...

A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances ...

Conclusion In conclusion, evaluating and optimizing Linux server performance involves a systematic approach to monitoring key metrics, benchmarking to establish performance baselines, and applying ...