Linux

Sysadmins (and lesser mortals) use cron to schedule regular jobs on servers for all sorts of tasks including backups. Since it can be a pain to log into each server to ensure that these scheduled jobs are running correctly days, weeks or even months after the jobs were first created, you can opt to receive notifications of the success or failure of these jobs by email. In order to send emails, cron relies on sendmail....

When you provision a new server or VPS, there are a few steps you should take to make access to the server both secure and less painful. 1. Update the server Update the server using the latest packages. On Ubuntu execute the following commands (as root): apt-get update 2. Don’t login as root The first time you login into your (new) server, you should use the root account for updating the server and creating a new user....