Admin Workshop Identd Insider Tips: Identd with Linux-based Servers

Mar 31, 2005

In last month’s issue of Admin Workshop, we introduced tools that help admins get services up and running. This month, we will show how you can use the Ident protocol to associate a user name with a TCP connection.

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Knoda: Forms & Reports Managing databases on KDE

Mar 31, 2005

Knoda is a user-friendly KDE program that makes database management an intuitive experience. In Part 2 of our workshop, we investigate how to create forms and print reports with Knoda.

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Admin Workshop: inetd & xinetd Insider Tips: Server Management with inetd and xinetd

Feb 28, 2005

If you have many daemons running on your server, it can be quite difficult to keep track of them all. inetd and xinetd manage these services centrally and also take care of exchanges with your clients, allowing programs without network code to operate as Internet servers.

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PHP for Sysadmins Using PHP in administration scripts

Dec 31, 2004

Most admins tend to use the shell, Perl,or Python if they need a system administration script. But there is no need for web programmers to learn another language just to script a routine task. PHP gives admins the power to program command-line tools and even complete web interfaces.

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