Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

This morning, I received a message from a friend who was reading a hack log, and she had some questions about the commands used. This got me thinking, as Linux has a ton of commands and some can be ...

The shred command is a good option for removing files from a Linux system in a way that makes them virtually impossible to recover. The most obvious way to remove a file on a Linux system is to simply ...