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Essential System Administration

Essential System Administration Author: Aeleen Frisch Publisher: O'Reilly Published: 2002 Pages: 1149

Essential System Administration

Essential System Administration Chapters

Essential System Administration Chapters

1. Introduction to System Administration
   • Thinking About System Administration
   • Becoming Superuser
   • Communicating with User
   • About Menus and GUIs
   • Where Does the Time Go?
2. The Unix Way
   • Files
   • Processes
   • Devices
3. Essential Administratvie Tools and Techniques
   • Getting the Most from Common Commands
   • Eseential Administrative Techniques
4. Startup and Shutdown
   • About the Unix Boot Process
   • Initialization Files and Boot Scripts
   • Shutting Down a Unix System
   • Troubleshooting: Handling Crashes and Boot Failures
5. TCP/IP Networking
   • Understanding TCP/IP Netowkring
   • Adding a New Network Host
   • Network Testing and Troubleshooting
6. Managing Users and Groups
   • Unix Users and Groups
   • Managing User Accounts
   • Administrative Tools for Managing User Accounts
   • Administering User Passwords
   • User Authentication with PAM
   • LDAP: Using a Directory Service for User Authentication
7. Security
   • Preclude: What's Wrong with This Picture?
   • Thinking About Security
   • User Authentication Revisited
   • Protecting Files and Filesystem
   • Role-Based Access Control
   • Network Security
   • Hardening Unix Systems
   • Detecting Problems
8. Managing Network Services
   • Managing DNS Servers
   • Routing Daemons
   • Configuring a DHCP Server
   • Time Synchronization with NTP
   • Managing Network Daemons Under AIX
   • Monitoring the Network
9. Electronic Mail
   • About Electronic Mail
   • Configuring User Mail Programs
   • Configuring Access Agents
   • Configuring the Transport Agent
   • Retrieving Mail Messages
   • Mail Filtering with procmail
   • A Few Final Tools
10. Filesystems and Disks
    • Filesystem Types
    • Managing Filesystems
    • From Disks to Filesystems
    • Sharing Filesystems
11. Backup and Restore
    • Planning for Disasters and Everyday Needs
    • Backup Media
    • Backing Up Files and Filesystems
    • Restoring Files from Backups
    • Making Table of Content Files
    • Metwork Backup Systems
    • Backing Up and Restoring
    • The System Filesystems
12. Serial Lines and Devices
    • About Serial Lines
    • Specifying Terminal Characteristics
    • Adding a New Serial Device
    • Troubleshooting Terminal Problems
    • Controlling Addess to Serial Lines
    • HP-UX and Tru64 Terminal Line Attributes
    • The HylaFAX Fax Service
    • USB Devices
13. Printers and the Spooling Subsystem
    • The BSD Spooling Facility
    • System V Printing
    • Th AIX Spooling Facility
    • Troubleshooting Prtiners
    • Sharing Printers with Windows Systems
    • LPRng
    • CUPS
    • Font Management Under X
14. Automating Administrative Tasks
    • Creating Effective Shell Scripts
    • Perl: An Alternative Administrative Language
    • Expect: Automating interactive Programs
    • When Only C Will Do
    • Automating Complex Configuration Tasks with Cfengine
    • Stem Simplified Creation of Client-Server Applications
    • Adding Local man Pages
15. Managing System Resources
    • Thinking About System Performance
    • Monitoring and Controlling Processes
    • Managing CPU Resources
    • Managing Memory
    • Disk I/O Performance Issues
    • Monitoring and Managing Disk Space Usage
    • Network Performance
16. Configuring and Building Kernels
    • FreeBSD and Tru64
    • HP-UX
    • Linux
    • Solaris
    • AIS System Parameters
17. Accounting
    • Standard Accounting Files
    • BSD-Style Accounting: FreeBSD, Linux and AIX
    • System V-Style Accounting: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
    • Pritning Accouting
18. The Profession of System Adminsitration
    • SAGE: The System Administrators Guild
    • Administrative Virtues

Essential System Administration Appendices

1. Administrative Shell Programming
2. Index