Booch has been discussing his recent diagnosis of having an aortic aneurysm on his website’s blog.
Our thoughts and well wishes go out to him and hope that he can hang in there.
Starting and stopping services
Use:
/sbin/service [name] start | stop
To configure services to run at startup, use:
chkconfig [name] on | off
Linux system admin using Webmin
Webmin is a web front-end for administrating a Linux system. It gives incredibly simple web based access to tweak and configure the system through your browser.
Webmin is available from: www.webmin.com
Joe Cooper has a great user guide to using Webmin on his site here
Configuring a Linux server using Webmin
I don’t mind reading through man pages and searching around on websites to work out what commands I need to manage my Linux server (on which this site runs), but I recently came across Webmin which made my life a whole lot easier.
Webmin is a great web-based front-end to Linux to allow you to tweak and administer your Linux server incredibly easily.