Juliet Kemp

Even the largest disks will eventually begin to fill up, and sometimes you notice this (or at least, I do!) only when strange errors start to occur. If

Given my fondness for the console and for bare-bones window managers like ratpoison, I'm always pleased when I find another neat console tool. This time

More about Vim and open source software I've been using the open source editor Vim for an alarming number of years now, but I only very recently

More on proxy servers The open source proxy server and accelerator Squid has been around since the mid-1990s, helping speed up Internet traffic at both

One of the more neat things you can do with the versatile utility lsof is use it to recover a file you've just accidentally deleted. Tip of the Trade:

More on Open Source Software FreeBSD is a UNIX-like OS that has been around since 1993. If you're familiar with Linux or other UNIXes, you have most of

Clusters and distributed computing can operate in a number of ways. At one end of the spectrum are full-time dedicated clusters. Alternatively, you can

Dragonfly BSD v2.0 has recently been released. It's a fork from FreeBSD, and it's ultimate goal is to provide native clustering support in the kernel.

Last week I talked about testing the strength of users' passwords. Another way to ensure security is to set a good password policy. Tip of the Trade:

Admins use ps all the time to look at processes running on a system. But do you make the best use of the multitude of options this very useful tool has,

You may already be familiar with Gordano Messaging Suite, whose mail server component was reviewed here on ServerWatch earlier in the year. GMS is a

The excellent open-source monitoring software Nagios is set up to use plugins to do the actual work of checking services. Here are some useful plugins