I’m working on lesson 20 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge today. This lesson is titled “Scripting” and I’m hopeful that means I can learn something here. For a large part of my career I have been told “Forget best practices, just get it working. Now!” The lesson begins talking about the needs for writing scripts and automating things. It then mentions you can...
Working on lesson 19 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is titled “Inodes, symlinks and other shortcuts.” The lesson begins speaking about the Linux Virtual Filesystem and the inode or layer between filenames and actual data. The lesson points out that permissions, ownership, and the dates are kept at the inode level and not with the filename. Next the lesson is...
Moving along with lesson 18 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. This lesson is titled “Log rotation” which will be great to touch on Linux logs as they are not something I have very much experience with. The lesson starts with talking about logrotate and how helpful it can be with managing and automating your logs. That sounds wonderful to me! The lesson has me check the logs on my...
Moving on to lesson 17 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is entitled “Build from the source.” This should be an interesting lesson. Let’s check it out! So we are going to install software directly from the source instead of from a repository package manager like apt. This can quickly get sticky with missing dependencies but as long as you take it slow and...
Time to work through lesson 16 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is called “Archiving and compressing.” I feel like I am already familiar with Tar and GnuZip so this should be a pretty quick one. Let’s dive in! The lesson starts with a discussion on tar and gzip which is a nice refresher to actually think about the different parts of the process. I had no...