Issue Focus: System Administration
- Beyond Your First Shell Script
- How to write versatile, robust Bourne shell scripts that will run flawlessly under other shells as well.
by Brian Rice
- Diff, Patch, and Friends
- De-mystifying patches and the tools used to create and apply them.
by Michael K Johnson
- Auto-loading Kernel Modules
- Make your system leaner by modularizing the kernel.
by Preston F. Crow
- The Cold, Thin Edge
- Taking the Shell Paradigm to its Brutal Limits. Whether you use Tcl, shells, Perl, or C, there is usually an option whereby tools from one programming environment can be imported into another. Here's how to "push the envelope".
by Todd Graham Lewis
- Basic fvwm Configuration, Part 2
- Customizing the Desktop. Organize and customize those pop-up menu entries.
by John M Fisk
- Mobile IP:
- Transparent Host Migration on the Internet
by Ben Lancki, Abhijit Dixit, and Vipul Gupta
- Graphing with Gnuplot and Xmgr
- Two graphing packages available under Linux
by Andy Vaught
- Certifying Linux
- by Heiko Eissfeldt