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Introduction For those who don't know, SSHFS stands for Secure SHell FileSystem. It's a client that enables us to interact with remote directories through SFTP...

Introduction Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends. It has an architecture master/node, built for modularity and plug and...

Introduction Redmine is a web application for project management, written entirely using Ruby on Rails, and released under the terms of GPLv2. Some of its features...

Introduction Nextcloud is a cloud storage service invented by ownCloud founder. Unlike other popular services, in this case you can set up your own storage...

Web analytics - a general overview Those who own a website probably know what "web analytics" refers to. It's a general term indicating the study...

Introduction Different operations require different security layers. Accessing your email account, your social media, your bank account, and a remote server that you administer through...

Introduction Percona XtraBackup is an open source backup utility for MySQL-based servers that doesn't lock your database while performing backup. Using it provides the following...

Introduction LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and, as the name suggests, it's a standard protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services...

What is Gitlab? As stated in official website, "GitLab is an application to code, test, and deploy code together. It provides Git repository management with...

Introduction If you work with SSH, you already know that, after few minutes of inactivity, a session would be closed automatically, for security reasons. In...

Introduction We already talked about the release of Fedora 25, and the improvements it brings. In this article, we will see how to upgrade from...

Introduction Sometimes we all need to find some duplicate file in our system; this is a very tedious task, expecially if we have to do...

What's new in PostgreSQL 9.5 PostgreSQL is the world's leading open source database; in its 9.5 version there are a lot of enhancements, here reported...

Introduction We already talked about the usage of rsync to make (and restore) a backup. Today, we'll go further, talking about a tool built upon...

Package rebuilding is something easily done in Debian. As SysAdmin, you might find yourself in a spot needed to rebuild a Package, maybe to...

If you are a System Administrator, it will get to some point you only want to run a one line MySQL command. Maybe in...

Transmission is a GTK based Torrent client package for downloading torrents in Linux. Though this is GUI package, it also has and Web Application package,...

Who is the Superuser (SU)? The SuperUser (SU) – usually known as root in my Unix-like systems is the first user created at the installation...