BSD Hacks
- BSD Hacks
- Table of Contents
- Credits
- About the Author
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Why BSD Hacks?
- How to Use this Book
- How This Book Is Organized
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- We d Like to Hear from You
- Chapter 1. Customizing the User Environment
- Hack 0 Introduction
- Hack 1 Get the Most Out of the Default Shell
- Hack 2 Useful tcsh Shell Configuration File Options
- Hack 3 Create Shell Bindings
- Hack 4 Use Terminal and X Bindings
- Hack 5 Use the Mouse at a Terminal
- Hack 6 Get Your Daily Dose of Trivia
- Hack 7 Lock the Screen
- Hack 8 Create a Trash Directory
- Hack 9 Customize User Configurations
- Hack 10 Maintain Your Environment on Multiple Systems
- Hack 11 Use an Interactive Shell
- Hack 12 Use Multiple Screens on One Terminal
- Chapter 2. Dealing with Files and Filesystems
- Hack 12 Introduction
- Hack 13 Find Things
- Hack 14 Get the Most Out of grep
- Hack 15 Manipulate Files with sed
- Hack 16 Format Text at the Command Line
- Hack 17 Delimiter Dilemma
- Hack 18 DOS Floppy Manipulation
- Hack 19 Access Windows Shares Without a Server
- Hack 20 Deal with Disk Hogs
- Hack 21 Manage Temporary Files and Swap Space
- Hack 22 Recreate a Directory Structure Using mtree
- Hack 23 Ghosting Systems
- Chapter 3. The Boot and Login Environments
- Introduction
- Hack 24 Customize the Default Boot Menu
- Hack 25 Protect the Boot Process
- Hack 26 Run a Headless System
- Hack 27 Log a Headless Server Remotely
- Hack 28 Remove the Terminal Login Banner
- Hack 29 Protecting Passwords With Blowfish Hashes
- Hack 30 Monitor Password Policy Compliance
- Hack 31 Create an Effective, Reusable Password Policy
- Hack 32 Automate Memorable Password Generation
- Hack 33 Use One Time Passwords
- Hack 34 Restrict Logins
- Chapter 4. Backing Up
- Introduction
- Hack 35 Back Up FreeBSD with SMBFS
- Hack 36 Create Portable POSIX Archives
- Hack 37 Interactive Copy
- Hack 38 Secure Backups Over a Network
- Hack 39 Automate Remote Backups
- Hack 40 Automate Data Dumps for PostgreSQL Databases
- Hack 41 Perform Client-Server Cross-Platform Backups with Bacula
- Chapter 5. Networking Hacks
- Introduction
- Hack 42 See Console Messages Over a Remote Login
- Hack 43 Spoof a MAC Address
- Hack 44 Use Multiple Wireless NIC Configurations
- Hack 45 Survive Catastrophic Internet Loss
- Hack 46 Humanize tcpdump Output
- Hack 47 Understand DNS Records and Tools
- Hack 48 Send and Receive Email Without a Mail Client
- Hack 49 Why Do I Need sendmail?
- Hack 50 Hold Email for Later Delivery
- Hack 51 Get the Most Out of FTP
- Hack 52 Distributed Command Execution
- Hack 53 Interactive Remote Administration
- Chapter 6. Securing the System
- Introduction
- Hack 54 Strip the Kernel
- Hack 55 FreeBSD Access Control Lists
- Hack 56 Protect Files with Flags
- Hack 57 Tighten Security with Mandatory Access Control
- Hack 58 Use mtree as a Built-in Tripwire
- Hack 59 Intrusion Detection with Snort, ACID, MySQL, and FreeBSD
- Hack 60 Encrypt Your Hard Disk
- Hack 61 Sudo Gotchas
- Hack 62 sudoscript
- Hack 63 Restrict an SSH server
- Hack 64 Script IP Filter Rulesets
- Hack 65 Secure a Wireless Network Using PF
- Hack 66 Automatically Generate Firewall Rules
- Hack 67 Automate Security Patches
- Hack 68 Scan a Network of Windows Computers for Viruses
- Chapter 7. Going Beyond the Basics
- Introduction
- Hack 69 Tune FreeBSD for Different Applications
- Hack 70 Traffic Shaping on FreeBSD
- Hack 71 Create an Emergency Repair Kit
- Hack 72 Use the FreeBSD Recovery Process
- Hack 73 Use the GNU Debugger to Analyze a Buffer Overflow
- Hack 74 Consolidate Web Server Logs
- Hack 75 Script User Interaction
- Hack 76 Create a Trade Show Demo
- Chapter 8. Keeping Up-to-Date
- Introduction
- Hack 77 Automated Install
- Hack 78 FreeBSD from Scratch
- Hack 79 Safely Merge Changes to etc
- Hack 80 Automate Updates
- Hack 81 Create a Package Repository
- Hack 82 Build a Port Without the Ports Tree
- Hack 83 Keep Ports Up-to-Date with CTM
- Hack 84 Navigate the Ports System
- Hack 85 Downgrade a Port
- Hack 86 Create Your Own Startup Scripts
- Hack 87 Automate NetBSD Package Builds
- Hack 88 Easily Install Unix Applications on Mac OS X
- Chapter 9. Grokking BSD
- Introduction
- Hack 89 How d He Know That?
- Hack 90 Create Your Own Manpages
- Hack 91 Get the Most Out of Manpages
- Hack 92 Apply, Understand, and Create Patches
- Hack 93 Display Hardware Information
- Hack 94 Determine Who Is on the System
- Hack 95 Spelling Bee
- Hack 96 Leave on Time
- Hack 97 Run Native Java Applications
- Hack 98 Rotate Your Signature
- Hack 99 Useful One-Liners
- 9.13 Fun with X
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