Sandra Henry-Stocker has been administering Unix systems for more than 18 years. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language) but remembers enough English to write books and buy groceries. She currently works for TeleCommunication Systems, a wireless communications company, in Annapolis, Maryland, where no one else necessarily shares any of her opinions. She lives on a small farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
This blog offers advice for every-day Unix systems administration and some clever ways to approach more challenging problems.
Send comments and suggestions to mailto:bugfarm@gmail.com.
Fake "Tech Support" Email
Occasional email from Tech Support can be very useful if it doesn't arrive so frequently that you tend to ignore it altogether. But what happens when email from Tech Support is just another phishing attempt by the bad guys? Make sure your users can easily spot the difference.
Grappling with disk space
Disks are getting bigger and bigger, but so are our users' data collections. How do you quickly pin down the source of the problem when a file system suddenly fills up? Let's look at some useful commands.
Favorite Unix Tools & Commands
After 25 years of a love affair with Unix, I still appreciate the many little commands and tricks that make me feel clever on the command line.
Port Forwarding with Perl
SSH tunnels aren't the only way to do port forwarding. If you're clever enough, you can write your own program. If you're not quite that clever, you can use someone else's program -- like a very cool Perl script I found on the web.
