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By William von Hagen, Brian K. Jones
December 2005
Pages: 478
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-10082-5 |
ISBN 13: 9780596100827
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This handy reference offers 100 completely new server management tips and techniques designed to improve your productivity and sharpen your administrative skills. Each hack represents a clever way to accomplish a specific task, saving you countless hours of searching for the right answer. And you don't have to be a system administrator with hundreds of boxen to get something useful from this book as many of the hacks apply equally well to a single system or a home network. Whether they help you recover lost data, collect information from distributed clients, or synchronize administrative environments, the solutions found in Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two will simplify your life as a system administrator.
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Which is why we created Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two, a second collection of incredibly useful tips and tricks for finding and using dozens of open source tools you can apply to solve your sys admin problems. The power and flexibility of Linux and Open Source means that there is an astounding amount of great software out there waiting to be applied to your sys admin problems -- if only you knew about it and had enough information to get started. Hence, Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two.
This handy reference offers 100 completely new server management tips and techniques designed to improve your productivity and sharpen your administrative skills. Each hack represents a clever way to accomplish a specific task, saving you countless hours of searching for the right answer. No more sifting through man pages, HOWTO websites, or source code comments -- the only resource you need is right here. And you don't have to be a system administrator with hundreds of boxen to get something useful from this book as many of the hacks apply equally well to a single system or a home network.
Compiled by experts, these hacks not only give you the step-by-step instructions necessary to implement the software, but they also provide the context to truly enable you to learn the technology. Topics include:
- Authentication
- Remote GUI connectivity
- Storage management
- File sharing and synchronizing resources
- Security/lockdown instruction
- Log files and monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- System rescue, recovery, and repair
Whether they help you recover lost data, collect information from distributed clients, or synchronize administrative environments, the solutions found in Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two will simplify your life as a system administrator.
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Featured customer reviews
Linux Server Hacks, Volume 2 it's a great book, September 04 2007
This books it's great. All the hacks explained are useful for each
administrator and the selection it's amazing, specially because it
talks about all the topics including very specific items like network
monitoring and backups explaining in detail ( which it's great because
each hack fills less than ten pages ) all the sides and letting from
the administrator other details that can easily be solved reading
another book or Internet.
I thought the most useful Hacks for me were Nagios, Backup system,
system recoveries, and remote graphical systems. I liked all the
others specially some bash scripting examples for integrations among
servers and communication systems like Jabber. I have no critics for
the book. The work the editors made here it's amazing because the
selection of the hacks, and the authors shown here their greatest
knowledge.
I think LINUX SERVER HACKS Volume Two is a must-have for every system
administrator. The reading of the book it's quite easy and fun, and
useful in every hack I've seen.
Media reviews
"Bill von Hagen and Brian K. Jones have assembled a collection of tips that are just golden...You should buy this book to free up your nights and weekends. To free yourself from pain and worry. Okay, owning this book may not make the birds sing any sweeter, but it might keep you out of trouble long enough to hear them once in awhile. Seriously, applying the tips contained within this book will keep you more aware of the health and status of your systems, will allow you to be more connected with your systems, and will help you troubleshoot the systems if a problem should ever arise. If you don’t need help in any of these areas, you have my admiration."
-- Brian Turner, Free Software Magazine
"Hacks here only take a few minutes to read through but provide many answers to problems ranging from remotely running a GUI Linux desktop environment for end users to centralizing Windows font resources and combining network storage areas on new servers."
-- Diane Donovan, Library Bookwatch: Midwest Book Review
"...this is a great book for systems administrators and power users (for the latter audience, I also highly recommend Linux Desktop Hacks as a companion). The majority of the tips are clever and aimed at solving specific issues that are common to most environments. By focusing predominantly on the operating system and the features of it, the hacks are useful regardless of the number of machines you are running."
--Emmett Delaney, UnixReview.com, March 2006
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