Many people don’t figure out why a Systemd service can be masked. They understand the need to enable it at boot and start it but why masking it? Back to basics, a Systemd service can be: manually started with the…

When a service doesn’t run as you would like, when you want to change its default configuration, Systemd offers you several options. Firstly, you can copy the standard unit file from the /usr/lib/systemd/system directory into the /etc/systemd/system directory and then…

To a non expert, Firewalld can sometimes appear a little bit strange and confusing. Let’s take an example: you just set up an Apache webserver and want to configure a https virtual host. Because it’s a test, you want to…