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Batch files are well known for managing and configuring client computers. Most of the system administrators are creating batch files on a regular basis. Let's create a batch file to check if all the client computers are running a specific program on startup.

DirectAdmin contains a message system which contains information about thing like brute force attacks, overusage, etc. The message system get really full pretty fast and could contain thousands of messages.

When using the incremental backup script, I noticed some files were backupped which should be backuped. In this case some logs files which I don't have to backup every day. So I...

A Symbolic Links (also called symlink or softlink), is a special file which references another file or directory. These symlinks are very useful. For example a lot of deployment...

Virtualhosts allow you to host multiple websites on a single webserver. Shared hosting is based on this idea as this allows multiple customers to use a single server. It does require some configuration.

The previous backup script is a bit limited as it always creates a full backup. Let' adjust that to create incremental backups.

Numerical permissions describe the permissions of the file or folders and is most likely known with FTP or the unix filesystem. This post explains the meaning of those numbers.

This easy backup script creates a .tar.gz for a certain folder. The script can be used to backup a full folder once or scheduled.