A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Linux operating system in all its variants.

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systemd replaces upstart and init

Unlike Upstart in Oracle Linux 6, the systemd daemon now replaces Upstart in managing system run levels and services.

openSUSE Quick Reference Guide

This article provides a quick reference guide for the open SuSE operating system

Tomcat 7 on CentOS 7

This post provides a basic installation and configuration of Tomcat 7 on a CentOS 7 server.

Moving from LAMP to LEMP

LAMP is a popular server stack using apache to deliver dynamic content; LEMP utilises ngnix to achieve the same open source technologies.

RPM cheat sheet

RPM is a command line package management utility used for installing, uninstalling, updating, querying and verifying software packages.

Installing PHP GeoIP on Ubuntu

A simple article providing the steps necessary to get GeoIP working with PHP on Ubuntu systems.

LVM Logical Volumes

The use of logical volumes is similar to the use of partitions and is accomplished with the same standard commands (mkfs, mount, fsck, df, ...)