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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is. I've converted a few machines here in just the last few months, even one where the HD was so shot full of holes only the recovery partition made it onto the replacement SSD and I wound up ...