Today, we will look at a script that provides more information on the processes keeping a file system busy by using fuser to supply process IDs to ps and ps to then display additional information ...

What happened was this: Our anonymous sysadmin accidentally zeroed out a file named /usr/lib/libgen.so.1. This file is used for string pattern matching and pathname manipulation.

Whenever you use a simple grep command to find a single word or phrase in a file, you run the risk of getting a lot of extra "stuff" you didn't want to see. Here are two grep commands that will do ...

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach.