Administration News and Articles

LFTP is an alternative to the FTP command set, which supports many protocols and offers countless parameters.

Stacer is a handy graphical tool for cleaning up your Linux system.

One false click can quickly delete important data, or even an entire partition. If a backup tool is missing, only a rescue specialist can help.

Stop fiddling around with the mouse or trackpad – do your file management in the terminal, with vi-like key bindings.

Paperwork was developed to manage the paperless office – a dream as old as desktop PCs.

The new networkd component of the systemd project supports basic network configuration. Despite its early stage of development, one thing is clear: This is a daemon with brains.

Recently, sys admin Charly was faced with the task of synchronizing a directory on a server with two NFS-mounted clients. He wanted the whole thing to happen quickly and to be easily manageable, which ruled out DRBD and GlusterFS.

Sunflower is a highly configurable graphical file manager with two windows that implement an unusual concept by trying to integrate the command line with the file manager.

Logging DNS replies can prove very useful. Kurt explains how to capture the data and keep it forever.