An introduction to the Network Time Protocol
Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? -- Chicago, 1969 Perhaps that rock group didn’t care what time it was...
sync — The command you never heard of
Have you ever heard of the sync command? Have you heard of it but then forgotten all about it -- like me? The sync command...
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How I delay code execution in Bash until a remote host is responding
I have recently been working on some code that needs to run on a remote host using SSH. I describe this in my article, Using...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 15 — Strive For Elegance
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 17 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with some changes to update the...
A quick look at DNF5
DNF5 is the new DNF. With Fedora 41, it replaces DNF, and brings with it a new command as well as some new, upgraded, and...
How I used fdisk in a script to partition a drive
Image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay. As you probably know by now, I believe in automating everything. So when one of my scripts failed to...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 14 — Use Open Source software
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 16 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with...
A short review of Fedora 41
Fedora 41 was released on October 29, and I installed it on my primary workstation within a few minutes after I received the notification. No...
How I reverted from firewalld to iptables — and why
First, let's get something straight. Linux has only one firewall. One. Netfilter is a part of the Linux kernel and it implements the logic contained...
A day at ATO’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference (DEI)
Sunday, October 27, Yesterday as I write this, was an amazing day. The All Things Open DEI Conference featured some amazing speakers who offered some...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 13 — Make programs portable
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 15 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with...
What does it mean to be a SysAdmin?
A lot of us call ourselves SysAdmins (aka System Administrators1) and, sometimes, that's what our job title might be. You might not even realize that...
Welcome, “We (heart) Open Source”
We ❤️ Open Source is "A community education resource." A recent article at FOSS Force, "‘All Things Open’ Revives the OpenSource.com Community Abandoned by Red...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 14 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with changes. There is a lot...
Why I won’t use the BtrFS filesystem
Over the more than twenty-five years I have been using Linux, the default filesystem for Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) and Fedora has evolved considerably....