ITworld.com – If you have tried to give away any files lately on any of your Unix systems (i.e., without first becoming root), you may have been surprised to learn that you can’t. On most Unix systems ...

Linux and recursion are on very good speaking terms. In fact, a number of Linux commands recurse without ever being asked, while others have to be coaxed with just the right option. When is recursion ...

Today’s column is another troubleshooting tale – a real story from the pits of systems administration. And, although the solution to the particular problem encountered turned out to be trivial, the ...

The Linux operating system and all its variant distributions inherit a strict ownership model from Unix systems. This means that users must have specific permissions in order to manipulate particular ...

In Unix-like operating systems, such OS X or a Linux distribution, every file has an owner account. They also have a special program called the terminal that gives access to the command line and all ...