One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

Ok, say another power outage reboot my router in my apartment and I turn it back on. After it boots up, I have to SSH into the router to execute the firewall (that problem is another thread). So, I ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...