I’m Traw, a systems and network engineer. I write about Linux, networking, and whatever I’m testing, building, or troubleshooting.
$ whoami
network engineer · linux enthusiast · perpetual tinkerer
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I might open it looking for that same command and end up reading the few pages before it. Those pages explain something I wasn't looking for. Maybe there's another command that does something similar. Maybe there's a warning about an option I was about to use. Maybe I realize the command I came looking for wasn't really the thing I needed to understand in the first place.
↗If you learn how to inspect processes with `ps`, kill them with `kill`, check interfaces with `ip`, or connect to another machine using `ssh`, those skills don't suddenly disappear when you boot Fedora.
↗I write about Linux. I've written books about Linux. I use Linux pretty much every day. And I still Google Linux commands.
↗Paste a raw email header and turn the delivery path, authentication verdicts, and filtering clues into something you can actually read.
A reproducible, containerized source of truth for my homelab—with automated device discovery and configuration backups.
Turning FortiGate configuration exports into readable policy maps and audit reports.
What I’ve got on.
Practical guides for people who would rather learn by opening a terminal and trying things.
A Practical Guide to Linux from the Command Line
Valentine G. NachiView book ↗
A practical handbook for writing useful shell scripts
Valentine G. NachiView book ↗
Automate and scale your hacking process with Bash scripting
Valentine G. Nachi · Donald A. TevaultView book ↗Most days, I’m somewhere between a shell prompt, a firewall, and a network diagram—usually trying to understand why something works, or why it suddenly doesn’t.
This site is where I keep the useful parts. Expect notes from real troubleshooting, things I’m testing in my lab, project write-ups, and the occasional thought I wanted to get out of my head.
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