The Linux umask setting plays a big role in determining the permissions that are assigned to files that you create. But what’s behind this variable, and how do the numbers relate to settings like rwxr ...

Halloween has come and gone. In fact, so has Thanksgiving. But some masks are always appropriate – not because we’re trying to inspire people to give us candy, but because it’s just too easy to end up ...

SAS Program That Creates Data Sets and Transport Files: OS/390 The FILENAME statement assigns the libref TPORT to the physical location TPORT.DAT, which stores the entire library to be created. The ...

I once locked myself out of my files with a simple mistyped command. This was the first time I rendered my Linux installation unusable, and it was because I didn’t understand permissions. While I ...

How to quickly audit a Linux system from the command line Your email has been sent For a deep penetrating scan of your Linux servers and desktops, turn to the Lynis ...

A daemon is a process that runs in the background and is waiting for a specific event to occur. Typical daemons are httpd of web server and sshd which provides SSH connection. When booting is ...