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

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Moving from LAMP to LEMP

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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

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

Installing PHP GeoIP on Ubuntu

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

LVM Logical Volumes

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

LVM Volume Groups

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A volume group (vg) is an abstraction layer between block devices and logical volumes. The commands used to manage a volume group start with vg

LVM Physical Volumes

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A physical volume (pv) is any block device (a disk, a partition, a RAID device, an iSCSI device, etc.)

Private and public key pairs for SSH

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SSH has a key management capacity and related agents.When configured with public key authentication, your key proves your identity to remote SSH hosts

SSH configuration and security best practices

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Here is a list of processes and configurations that you can use to tighten and enhance SSH security with regard to remote host access