Online Resources


There is a wealth of information available on the Internet for every topic covered in this book. In addition to Web sites, there are email discussion lists you can subscribe to and Web-based forums where you can discuss almost any topic.

Apache

One of the cornerstones of the World Wide Web, the Apache Web server is famous for stability and performance.

The Apache Software Foundation

(www.apache.org)

The Apache homepage, with links to its Web server and many other related projects. Extensive online documentation, references to mailing lists (http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html), and more.

ClamAV

Information about the ClamAV antivirus program is mostly centralized on the main Web site.

ClamAV: Project News

(www.clamav.net)

The main ClamAV Web site, featuring documentation, downloads, and information about mailing lists (www.clamav.net/ml.html). You can also submit new virus reports here.

ClamAV: Third-party software

(www.clamav.net/3rdparty.html)

A listing of third-party software that supports ClamAV, including filters for integrating ClamAV with your email server.

Project: Clam AntiVirus: Summary

(http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav)

The SourceForge project page; this is where ClamAV development takes place.

CUPS

CUPS is rapidly becoming the standard for Unix printing to a wide variety of devices.

Common UNIX Printing System

(www.cups.org)

The CUPS homepage, featuring documentation, newsgroups, and a variety of free and commercial support options.

Cygwin

The Cygwin project is fairly specialized (it tries to provide a Red Hat Linux environment on top of Windows), but there is a lot of good information available.

Cygwin

(www.cygwin.com)

The main Cygwin site includes documentation, FAQ, mailing lists (http://cygwin.com/lists.html), unofficial newsgroups, and a package search engine that can help you decide which packages to install when you're looking for a specific application.

Cyrus

Project Cyrus produces a free IMAP mail server.

Project Cyrus

(http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus)

The Cyrus Project homepage. Plenty of documentation and related IMAP links.

DHCP

This is a fairly standard part of most operating systems, so check your OS documentation too.

DNS, BIND, DHCP, LDAP and Directory Services

(www.bind9.net/dhcp)

Links to lots of articles about DHCP on a variety of subjects.

Internet Systems Consortium

(www.isc.org)

The homepage of the Internet Systems Consortium, which develops several free implementations of core Internet protocols, including DHCP. Its DHCP server is the one that most free operating systems include.

Disk Quotas

Limiting the amount of storage that individual users can consume is a good way of making your system safer; many applications don't behave well when they run out of disk space.

FreeBSD HandbookFile System Quotas

(www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html)

Detailed information about activating and administering disk quotas under FreeBSD.

How to Enable Disk Quotas in Windows 2000

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183322/EN-US)

An article on enabling and administering disk quotas under Windows 2000 (which also applies to Windows XP).

Quota support on Mac OS X

(http://sial.org/howto/osx/quota/)

Details on how to set up and administer disk quotas under Mac OS X.

Red Hat LinuxSpecific Information

(www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-storage-rhlspec.html#S2-STORAGE-QUOTAS)

Detailed information about activating and administering disk quotas under Red Hat (and Fedora Core) Linux.

DNS

DNS is a backbone Internet service, with vast amounts of written and online information available.

DNS Resources Directory

(www.dns.net/dnsrd)

Provides a large number of documents about DNS and DNS-related topics.

DNS Stuff

(www.dnsstuff.com)

A page filled with DNS-related tools that you can use from your Web browser.

DynDNS.org

(www.dyndns.org)

A domain-registration service that also offers a free dynamic DNS service for people on DHCP networks, such as those provided by most DSL and cable ISPs.

Fedora Core Linux

Despite the fact that Fedora is a relatively new project, there are a number of good sources for information on it.

DAG: Apt/Yum RPM Repository

(http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt)

Features binary packages (and instructions on integrating them with the standard yum/up2date system in Fedora Core) of many useful applications.

Fedora Project

(http://fedora.redhat.com)

Red Hat's Fedora Project pages include online documentation, sign-up information for the Fedora mailing lists (http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/), and much more.

Fedora Project

(http://fedoraproject.org)

As of this writing, the future home of all things Fedora; contains links to other information.

Linuxlinks.com

(www.linuxlinks.com)

A massive index of Linux-related Web sites, organized by category.

The Unofficial Fedora FAQ

(www.fedorafaq.org)

A repository of FAQs maintained by people who aren't directly associated with the Fedora project.

Fink/Mac OS X

Fink's documentation isn't as good as the general Mac OS X documentation provided by Apple, but it's still more than adequate to help you out.

Apple Computer

(www.apple.com)

Detailed information about every aspect of Mac OS X, including the BSD-flavored Darwin core of the operating system.

Apple Developer Connection

(http://developer.apple.com)

Apple's software-development Web site, including its free Mac OS X development tools (which you'll need for Fink).

DarwinOpen Source

(http://developer.apple.com/darwin)

Apple also makes Darwin, the open-source kernel used with Mac OS X, available.

Fink

(http://fink.sourceforge.net)

Fink's homepage features FAQ and documentation in addition to the download links you need when installing Fink.

Mac OS XOpen Source

(www.apple.com/opensource)

A list of the open-source applications used in Mac OS X, including the technologies that Apple has made open source.

netatalk.sourceforge.net

(http://netatalk.sourceforge.net)

The Netatalk server lets Unix systems (such as Linux and FreeBSD) share directories on an AppleTalk network. This is the fastest network file system for networks made up of Mac clients.

FreeBSD

The FreeBSD project is mature and includes detailed and well-tested documentation.

BSDForums.org

(www.freebsdforums.org)

Web-based discussion forums focusing on FreeBSD, its software, and more.

FreeBSD

(www.freebsd.org)

The mother ship, with mailing-list information (www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list), online documentation galore (including the full text of The FreeBSD Handbook), FAQ, man pages, and almost anything else you can think of.

MySQL

A very capable open-source database engine, MySQL is being used all over the Internet for a wide variety of projects and sites.

MySQL

(www.mysql.org)

The MySQL homepage, filled with developer information, technical resources, and information about books.

Netatalk

The Netatalk project provides AppleTalk-compatible file (and printer) sharing for Unix servers. In fact, it provides better AppleTalk performance than that of similar Macintosh-based servers.

netatalk.sourceforge.net

(http://netatalk.sourceforge.net )

The SourceForge project page, which includes online versions of the documentation.

NFS

Since NFS is an old standard for networked file systems, plenty of books and other information about it is available.

FreeBSD HandbookNetwork File System

(www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.html)

The FreeBSD Handbook's NFS section.

Linux NFS Overview, FAQ, and HOWTO Documents

(http://nfs.sourceforge.net)

The Linux NFS project's homepage on SourceForge includes many links to additional information and mailing lists (http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/nfs).

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is an implementation of the SSH protocol suite (SSH1 and SSH2) and runs on almost every operating system.

OpenSSH

(www.openssh.com)

The OpenSSH homepage, with links to man pages, FAQ, bug-report forms, mailing lists (www.openssh.com/list.html), downloads, and more.

LFTP

(http://lftp.yar.ru)

lftp is an excellent text-based FTP/HTTP/SSH client that makes a great replacement for sftp.

PHP

The ubiquitous Web-page scripting language.

PHP

(www.php.net)

PHP's homepage has links to tutorials, documentation, FAQ, bug-report forms, and a wide variety of other PHP sites.

phpbb

phpbb is a Web forum system written entirely in PHP.

phpBB

(www.phpbb.com)

The phpBB homepage, where you can try a forum demo, get support, interact with the phpbb community, and download styles and add-ons for phpbb.

Postfix

Postfix is a fast, easy-to-administer, secure Sendmail replacement.

The Postfix Home Page

(www.postfix.org)

You can download the source code; subscribe to mailing lists (www.postfix.org/lists.html); read the online documentation, how-to articles, and FAQ; and find out about third-party add-ons.

Samba

The standard for high-performance network file (and printer) sharing. You can also find a number of Samba books at your local bookstore.

Samba.org

(www.samba.org)

The Samba homepage, with complete documentation, mailing lists (http://lists.samba.org/), IRC channels, and more.

Samba Resources

(www.plainjoe.org/samba)

Links to various supplementary Samba information sites and books, maintained by a member of the Samba development team.

Security

Being aware of new security issues is a great way to avoid being hacked by nefarious individuals.

Computer Security Information

(www.alw.nih.gov/Security/security.html)

Links to computer-security advisories, documentation, electronic magazines, FAQ, groups, organizations, and more, from the Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health.

The Risks Digest

(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks)

The Association for Computing Machinery's RISKS Forum ("Risks to the public in computers and related

systems"), which often has information about new security problems before any other venue.

US-CERT

(www.us-cert.gov)

The most up-to-date computer-security site, featuring information about security issues and solutions.

Sendmail

The old workhorse of Unix mail transports, Sendmail has been written about extensively in books and online.

Sendmail Consortium

(www.sendmail.org)

The Sendmail Consortium's homepage, with FAQ, documentation, and news.

Squid

You can speed up access to the World Wide Web for users on your network by caching commonly visited pages using Squid.

Squid Web Proxy Cache

(www.squid-cache.org)

The Squid homepage, with FAQ, online documentation, support information, and related projects.

Webmin

Lots of information about Webmin (and the Perl programming language it's written in) is available.

ActivePerl

(www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl)

The ActiveState port of Perl for Windows has better performance (and fewer memory leaks) than the Cygwin port. You'll probably want this if you're going to run Webmin for any length of time under Cygwin.

CPAN

(www.cpan.org)

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network is a huge, distributed database of Perl modules and source code. If you need to do something with Perl, this is going to be one of your favorite sites.

Webmin

(www.webmin.com)

Webmin's homepage includes an array of links to detailed documentation, FAQ, third-party extension modules, and articles about Webmin.

Miscellaneous

These interesting links don't really fit into any of the above categories, but they're still useful.

freshmeat.net

(http://freshmeat.net)

The Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, updated constantly.

ISO Recorder Power Toy

(http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com)

ISO Recorder is a Windows XP add-on that lets you burn CD-ROM images to disc directly from the Windows desktop.

Kuro5hin

(www.kuro5hin.org)

Another high-tech news portal, similar to Slashdot but covering a wider variety of topics.

Peachpit Press

(www.peachpit.com)

Publisher of fine computer books of all kinds.

rsnapshot

(www.rsnapshot.org)

The homepage for rsnapshot, a backup utility written in Perl that works over the rsync protocol.

Slashdot

(http://slashdot.org)

"News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." Slashdot is a news portal focusing on high-tech and computer-related articles and discussion.

Wikipedia

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

Not strictly a computing resource, Wikipedia is a fantastic free online encyclopedia. Everyone should know about this.



    Unix Advanced. Visual QuickPro Guide
    Unix Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide
    ISBN: 0321205499
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 116

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