Tools News and Articles

Just as a craftsman is unlikely to purchase a new angle grinder every month, sys admins are unlikely to change constantly their tried and trusted tools. Columnist Charly Kühnast ditches this conservative philosophy this month, lured by the charms of a new logfile tool.

Tool review: Dialog 0.7, virtenv 0.8.6, collectd 5.4.0, convmv 1.15, Drukkar 1.11, and ngIRCd 20.3.

The incron utility provides an easy way to initiate commands and scripts triggered by filesystem events.

Taskwarrior is arguably the most powerful command-line task manager. We show you how to use this application to manage tasks like a pro.

The Volatility forensic tool helps admins analyze what went wrong on a system. When you need to draw conclusions about malware, or even compromised services, peer into memory with Volatility.

Columnist Charly gives Apache a slick coat of Varnish for better performance.

Splunk has mastered the art of finding truly relevant messages in huge amounts of log data. Perlmeister Mike Schilli throws his system messages at the feet of a proprietary analysis tool and teaches the free version an enterprise feature.

The powerful dpkg-reconfigure command can be used to reconfigure an entire installation. We show how to use it wisely.