A Little Philosophical Thought: The SoftLayer Family Tree
Somewhat picking up on the theme of the blog, “Here’s to you, that nerdy Sysadmin”, this is a sort of, “Here’s to you, our family tree of customers.” I find it very interesting how everyone in the...
View Article5 Steps to Start Using IPv6 (not IPv5)
As Kevin mentioned on Friday, we are less than 45 days from “doomsday.” The IANA only has about 3% of the resources required to sustain our current way of life. 6.8 billion people with only 4.3 billion...
View ArticleUNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp: An Intro to SSH
You’ve got a ‘nix box set up. For some reason, you feel completely lost and powerless. It happens. Many a UNIX-related sob has been cried by confused and frustrated sysadmins, and it needs to stop. As...
View ArticleUNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp: bash
Welcome back to UNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp. You’ve had a few days to get some reps in accessing your server via SSH, so it’s about time we add some weight to your exercise by teaching you some of the...
View ArticleUNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp: Your Logs and You
We’re a few exercises into UNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp, and if you’re keeping up, you’ve learned about SSH and bash. In those sessions, our focus was to tell the server what we wanted it to do. In this...
View ArticleUNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp: Passwords
It’s been a while since our last UNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp … Are you still with me? Have you kept up with your sysadmin exercises? Are you starting to get comfortable with SSH, bash and your logs? Good....
View ArticleUNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp: User Management
Now that you’re an expert when it comes to bash, logs, SSH, and passwords, you’re probably foaming at the mouth to learn some new skills. While I can’t equip you with the “nunchuck skills” or...
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UNIX Sysadmin Boot Camp: Permissions
I hope you brought your sweat band … Today’s Boot Camp workout is going to be pretty intense. We’re focusing on our permissions muscles. Permissions in a UNIX environment cause a lot of customer issues...
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