Tec(h)tonic

Insights into building a solid I.T. foundation in the mid-size business world.

Tag: *nix

  • Microsoft does Linux (sort of)

    Historically very anti-Linux (to the point of litigation), Microsoft has begun to embrace the open source OS, in its own way, out of pure necessity – the cloud computing boom has completely altered the requirements for back-end servers and software, requirements that typical MS Windows products aren’t built to support. Personally, though I realize this is…

  • Single line command to copy file from one file server to another

    Here’s a simple command to copy a specified file from one file server to another – I use this to send our office contact list (stored on our local Samba file server) to our branch office’s file server whenever I update it so that both offices always have access to the current copy. Note that…

  • Shell script to monitor /boot disk usage

    Linux tends to allocate a relatively small amount of storage space to the /boot volume during the install process and, as a result, it can quickly fill up with kernel updates, particularly if you have your server set up to automatically apply any security updates. In my experience, when this happens then the server can begin…