Hacker News with Generative AI: System Administration

The GNU Shepherd Manual (gnu.org)
This manual documents the GNU Daemon Shepherd, or GNU Shepherd for short. The Shepherd looks after system services, typically daemons. It is used to start and stop them in a reliable fashion. For instance, it will dynamically determine and start any other services that our desired service depends upon.

Operating Systems, Linux, System Administration, Daemon Management, GNU

6 points by ossusermivami 27 days ago | 0 comments

Using /tmp/ and /var/tmp/ Safely (systemd.io)
/tmp/ and /var/tmp/ are two world-writable directories Linux systems provide for temporary files.

Linux, Security, File Systems, System Administration

5 points by todsacerdoti 28 days ago | 0 comments

Traditionally, init on Unix was not a service manager as such (utoronto.ca)
Init (the process) has historically had a number of roles but, perhaps surprisingly, being a 'service manager' (or a 'daemon manager') was not one of them in traditional init systems.

Operating Systems, Unix, System Administration

39 points by rbanffy 46 days ago | 2 comments

A word about systemd (2016) (skarnet.org)
systemd is becoming de facto a standard init system for Linux. But even this choice of words is treacherous, because systemd is much more than an init system. It's basically an integrated redesign of all the low-level userspace of a Linux system, with great plans to change how software is run and organized.

Linux, Operating Systems, Software Design, System Administration

36 points by tosh 65 days ago | 182 comments

S6 – Skarnet's small supervision suite (skarnet.org)
s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools and runit, as well as various operations on processes and daemons.

Unix, System Administration, Process Management, Software, Open Source

98 points by tosh 69 days ago | 40 comments

Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility: R/sysadmin (reddit.com)
It's been a few weeks since our little incident discussed in my original post.

IT, Healthcare, Security, System Administration, Mobile Devices

3 points by oxw 70 days ago | 0 comments

Creating an Immutable System with NixOS, systemd-repart and systemd-sysupdate (x86.lol)

NixOS, System Administration, Linux, Immutable Systems, Systemd

9 points by ssernikk 84 days ago | 0 comments

Run System Commands in Ruby – When to use which methods to run shell commands (medium.com)

Ruby, Shell Commands, Programming, System Administration, Development Tools

25 points by thunderbong 86 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers? (ycombinator.com)

Server Monitoring, System Administration, Hacker News, Tools, Best Practices

346 points by gorkemcetin 100 days ago | 185 comments

Hcreate(3) (linux.die.net)

Linux, Command Line, System Administration

53 points by luu 101 days ago | 35 comments

Hiding Linux Processes with Bind Mounts (righteousit.com)

Linux, Security, System Administration, Operating Systems

182 points by indigodaddy 120 days ago | 64 comments

Dtui – TUI for introspecting the state of the system/session dbus (github.com/Troels51)

Software, Linux, System Administration, D-Bus

156 points by diggan 121 days ago | 39 comments

Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux (github.com/linuxmint)

Linux, System Administration, Backup, Open Source, Tools

373 points by gballan 122 days ago | 172 comments

Crowdstrike: What % of sys admins can remotely boot to safe mode, given BSOD? (ycombinator.com)

Crowdstrike, System Administration, Troubleshooting, Windows

13 points by peterhartree 125 days ago | 11 comments

Duc: A collection of tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage (zevv.nl)

Disk Usage, Visualization, Tools, System Administration

20 points by justinclift 130 days ago | 4 comments

System insights with command-line tools: dmidecode and lspci (fedoramagazine.org)

System Administration, Hardware Information

13 points by jethronethro 133 days ago | 0 comments

Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021) (utoronto.ca)

Operating Systems, Linux, System Administration, File Systems

42 points by cloudripper 141 days ago | 13 comments

Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs (utoronto.ca)

Plaintext, Logging, System Administration, Data Storage

12 points by thunderbong 142 days ago | 14 comments

How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins (rachelbythebay.com)

System Administration, Network Performance, Humor

295 points by zoidb 145 days ago | 147 comments

Parallel Nix Evaluation (determinate.systems)

Parallel Computing, Nix, System Administration, Software Development

7 points by tripdout 145 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Arch Users – What is your long-term system maintenance routine? (ycombinator.com)

Linux, Arch Linux, System Administration

11 points by ensocode 147 days ago | 30 comments

SSH as a Sudo Replacement (whynothugo.nl)

SSH, Security, Linux, System Administration

230 points by legobeet 151 days ago | 111 comments

CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux (criu.org)

Linux, Operating Systems, System Administration, Virtualization

208 points by JeremyNT 153 days ago | 73 comments

Running "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" will delete /home in systemd 256 (mathstodon.xyz)

Linux, System Administration, Systemd, Operating Systems

60 points by josephcsible 155 days ago | 24 comments

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' (theregister.com)

Operating Systems, Software, Linux, System Administration

10 points by Stratoscope 160 days ago | 2 comments

Lowering resource usage with foot and systemd (rgoswami.me)

Resource Management, Linux, System Administration

69 points by HaoZeke 171 days ago | 30 comments

DBus and Systemd (uyha.github.io)

Linux, System Administration, Software, Open Source

73 points by thunderbong 177 days ago | 80 comments

Sys Admins and AI (ycombinator.com)

System Administration, Artificial Intelligence

17 points by flaflapoms 184 days ago | 12 comments

SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic? (rachelbythebay.com)

Operating Systems, System Administration, Linux

176 points by ingve 190 days ago | 76 comments

Toddler Proofing Systemd-Boot (2023) (wonky.computer)

Linux, System Administration, Security, Operating Systems

11 points by luu 199 days ago | 2 comments