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Essential System Administration, Third Edition

ISBN: 0596003439
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2002
Pages: 162

Authors: u00c6leen Frisch

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface
• The Unix Universe
• Audience
• Organization
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Comments and Questions
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction to System Administration
• 1.1 Thinking About System Administration
• 1.2 Becoming Superuser
• 1.3 Communicating with Users
• 1.4 About Menus and GUIs
• 1.5 Where Does the Time Go?
• Chapter 2. The Unix Way
• 2.1 Files
• 2.2 Processes
• 2.3 Devices
• Chapter 3. Essential AdministrativeTools and Techniques
• 3.1 Getting the Most from Common Commands
• 3.2 Essential Administrative Techniques
• Chapter 4. Startup and Shutdown
• 4.1 About the Unix Boot Process
• 4.2 Initialization Files and Boot Scripts
• 4.3 Shutting Down a Unix System
• 4.4 Troubleshooting: Handling Crashes and Boot Failures
• Chapter 5. TCPIP Networking
• 5.1 Understanding TCPIP Networking
• 5.2 Adding a New Network Host
• 5.3 Network Testing and Troubleshooting
• Chapter 6. Managing Users and Groups
• 6.1 Unix Users and Groups
• 6.2 Managing User Accounts
• 6.3 Administrative Tools for Managing User Accounts
• 6.4 Administering User Passwords
• 6.5 User Authentication with PAM
• 6.6 LDAP: Using a Directory Service for User Authentication
• Chapter 7. Security
• 7.1 Prelude: What s Wrong with This Picture?
• 7.2 Thinking About Security
• 7.3 User Authentication Revisited
• 7.4 Protecting Files and the Filesystem
• 7.5 Role-Based Access Control
• 7.6 Network Security
• 7.7 Hardening Unix Systems
• 7.8 Detecting Problems
• Chapter 8. Managing Network Services
• 8.1 Managing DNS Servers
• 8.2 Routing Daemons
• 8.3 Configuring a DHCP Server
• 8.4 Time Synchronization with NTP
• 8.5 Managing Network Daemons under AIX
• 8.6 Monitoring the Network
• Chapter 9. Electronic Mail
• 9.1 About Electronic Mail
• 9.2 Configuring User Mail Programs
• 9.3 Configuring Access Agents
• 9.4 Configuring the Transport Agent
• 9.5 Retrieving Mail Messages
• 9.6 Mail Filtering with procmail
• 9.7 A Few Final Tools
• Chapter 10. Filesystems and Disks
• 10.1 Filesystem Types
• 10.2 Managing Filesystems
• 10.3 From Disks to Filesystems
• 10.4 Sharing Filesystems
• Chapter 11. Backup and Restore
• 11.1 Planning for Disasters and Everyday Needs
• 11.2 Backup Media
• 11.3 Backing Up Files and Filesystems
• 11.4 Restoring Files from Backups
• 11.5 Making Table of Contents Files
• 11.6 Network Backup Systems
• 11.7 Backing Up and Restoring the System Filesystems
• Chapter 12. Serial Lines and Devices
• 12.1 About Serial Lines
• 12.2 Specifying Terminal Characteristics
• 12.3 Adding a New Serial Device
• 12.4 Troubleshooting Terminal Problems
• 12.5 Controlling Access to Serial Lines
• 12.6 HP-UX and Tru64 Terminal Line Attributes
• 12.7 The HylaFAX Fax Service
• 12.8 USB Devices
• Chapter 13. Printers and the Spooling Subsystem
• 13.1 The BSD Spooling Facility
• 13.2 System V Printing
• 13.3 The AIX Spooling Facility
• 13.4 Troubleshooting Printers
• 13.5 Sharing Printers with Windows Systems
• 13.6 LPRng
• 13.7 CUPS
• 13.8 Font Management Under X
• Chapter 14. Automating Administrative Tasks
• 14.1 Creating Effective Shell Scripts
• 14.2 Perl: An Alternate Administrative Language
• 14.3 Expect: Automating Interactive Programs
• 14.4 When Only C Will Do
• 14.5 Automating Complex Configuration Tasks with Cfengine
• 14.6 Stem: Simplified Creation of Client-Server Applications
• 14.7 Adding Local man Pages
• Chapter 15. Managing System Resources
• 15.1 Thinking About System Performance
• 15.2 Monitoring and Controlling Processes
• 15.3 Managing CPU Resources
• 15.4 Managing Memory
• 15.5 Disk IO Performance Issues
• 15.6 Monitoring and Managing Disk Space Usage
• 15.7 Network Performance
• Chapter 16. Configuring and Building Kernels
• 16.1 FreeBSD and Tru64
• 16.2 HP-UX
• 16.3 Linux
• 16.4 Solaris
• 16.5 AIX System Parameters
• Chapter 17. Accounting
• 17.1 Standard Accounting Files
• 17.2 BSD-Style Accounting: FreeBSD, Linux, and AIX
• 17.3 System V-Style Accounting: AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris
• 17.4 Printing Accounting
• The Profession of System Administration
• SAGE: The System Administrators Guild
• Administrative Virtues
• Appendix A. Administrative Shell Programming
• A.1 Basic Syntax
• A.2 The if Statement
• A.3 Other Control Structures
• A.4 Getting Input: The read Command
• A.5 Other Useful Commands
• A.6 Shell Functions
• Colophon
• Index
• Index SYMBOL
• Index A
• Index B
• Index C
• Index D
• Index E
• Index F
• Index G
• Index H
• Index I
• Index J
• Index K
• Index L
• Index M
• Index N
• Index O
• Index P
• Index Q
• Index R
• Index S
• Index T
• Index U
• Index V
• Index W
• Index X
• Index Y