Microsoft Exchange Server Utilities ESEutil & ISinteg
Microsoft includes two command line utilities with Exchange Server that are designed to accomplish various maintenance functions within the Exchange…
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Actively Monitoring Disk Free Space
Why care about disk free space? The obvious answer is that low free space means upcoming problems, like the inability…
How “ps” Works And Why
The simple "ps" command has generated a fair amount of confusion. Almost every Unix variant does it slightly differently; flags…
Python in Systems Administration: Part I — Better Scripting
One well-honed item in every sys admin's toolbox is a preferred scripting language -- maybe sh, or ksh, or Perl,…
The Wrong Way to Upgrade Your RPMs
Most Linux distributions use the RPM[1] format for their software packages. RPMs are managed by the rpm program, which typically…
Improve Linux performance
Performance breakthroughs seem to come in two varieties: easy and hard. That's no platitude; the boundary between the two is…
Simple Network Troubleshooting
I know that working from the command line can be intimidating to those of us who have always had a…
