Essential System Administration, Third Edition
Essential System Administration, Third Edition
ISBN: 0596003439
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 162
Pages: 162
Authors: u00c6leen Frisch
- 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
Essential System Administration, Third Edition
ISBN: 0596003439
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 162
Pages: 162
Authors: u00c6leen Frisch