When someone says VoIP and Linux, the first thing that comes to mind is Asterisk, the open source PBX software. This is the same software that we deployed for our university several years ago (disclai…

In last year's Linux Admin Tips entry, I mentioned FUSE, the open source filesystem in Userspace project, and how it is used to mount remote file systems via SSH.

Here's a tutorial on how to …

Scouring the net for virtualization solutions similar to what I use on my Mac, I found an Oracle DBA's blog entry on how to install Xen on CentOS 5.0.

Whilst the article seems simple to follow, n…

With hard disk drive prices plummeting rapidly, it is easy to create your own network-attached-storage (NAS). Whilst there are commercial devices that provide with a simple NAS solution, using an old …

For those of you who have multiple network connections on a single computer or server, there might be value in aggregating the total bandwidth and making it look like a single connection. In networkin…

FTP is one of the easiest and most universal ways of transferring files between systems (although I prefer and highly recommend SCP) but it is also not easy to manage. In most cases, ftp access is gra…

Not too long ago, I had my technical team install Subversion (SVN), a version control system, on a Mac OS X. I am not sure what happened but I think they opted to transfer it to a Linux box. I couldn&…

Linux.com's Gary Sims lists various tools that you may use to monitor and manage your system processes. Budding system administrators should know these tools by heart. :)

This powerful feature of…

Not too long ago, I wrote about how you can install OpenVZ. Just in case you cannot find the time (or patience) to set it up, you can now play with OpenVZ without installing it. Today, OpenVZ is avail…

Last month, I wrote about using Virtualbox on Ubuntu's Dapper Drake. Today, I bring you a How-To, written by blkwolf for How To Forge, on installing VMWare Server on Ubuntu's latest release, F…