If you are a manager who is responsible for UNIX servers, you'll want to read and heed these 'Top 10 Rules' of Successful System Administration: Nobody gets the root password. That's right - nobody; not the DBA, not the developers, not even your aunt Martha. With the root password, anybody can do an...

UNIX for Managers and Business Owners. What you should know... Premier UNIX Support "In theory, communism works." - Homer Simpson Theory is not reality. In reality, UNIX systems are typically the core of the business information architecture. They run the databases, business applications and system ...

There is no "silver bullet" that optimizes the performance of a UNIX system. Performance tuning is usually done in a panic without a thorough understanding of what is going on. There are any number of costly products in the market place that say, "buy me". They are usually cumbersome and worthless u...

When most people think of web servers, they think about accessing sites (like this one) on the world wide web. Web servers can also be a valuable service on your internal network (intranet). Some effective tools you can use: Let them see but not touch. Give managers and other casual users access to ...

All too frequently, business continuance and disaster recovery are associated with backups. Unfortunately, most people are under the unrealistic impression that if they have a backup of their system, they can recover their system. All to frequently, when people think that they have good backups they...