It's not hard to look up configuration details on your Linux system. The hard thing is wrapping your brain around how many are available and what they can tell you.

Netplan is a modern network configuration tool introduced in Ubuntu 17.10 and later adopted as the default for managing network interfaces in Ubuntu 18.04 and beyond. With its YAML-based configuration ...

Linux system log files are by default set to rotate. Depending on the age or size, a sequence of files moves back a step, the oldest being removed and a new one taking over as the current log file.

First, create the network configuration file for the gateway computer with the command emacs /etc/sysconfig/network. Next, enter the following information into this file: NETWORKING=yes FORWARD ...

It was bad enough that I had to install an agent on each machine, but I also had to build a giant configuration file on my Munin server by hand that listed each server it should monitor. Plus, any ...