Modern Linux systems will have lots of daemons running in the background, especially on servers. Even on desktop systems, ...

For example, to use a web server, users need to start the Apache service, or to use a database, users must start the MySQL service. Managing Linux services is also important for system stability ...

For example, one valuable feature of the platform, he says, is a bit of fingerprint code that is designed to enable Oracle Linux to detect attempts to exploit patched vulnerabilities.

LDAP services exist in a TCP/IP context. It's an Internet service that uses daemons, requires an administrator, configuration files and structure. In some ways LDAP resembles a Linux file system with ...