Book description
Essential Linux Management Skills Made Easy
Effectively deploy and maintain Linux and other Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on your servers or entire network using this practical resource. Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide, Sixth Edition provides up-to-date details on the latest Linux distributions, including Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu. Learn how to install and customize Linux, work from the GUI or command line, configure Internet and intranet services, interoperate with Windows systems, and create reliable backups. Performance tuning, security, and virtualization are also covered and real-world examples help you put the techniques presented into practice.
- Install and configure popular Linux distributions, including the latest versions of Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu
- Administer Linux servers from the GUI or from the command line (shell)
- Manage users, permissions, folders, and native FOSS applications
- Compile, tune, upgrade, and customize the latest Linux kernel 3.x series
- Work with proc, SysFS, and cgroup file systems
- Understand and manage the Linux TCP/IP networking stack and services for both IPv4 and IPv6
- Build robust firewalls, and routers using Netfilter and Linux
- Create and maintain print, e-mail, FTP, and web servers
- Use LDAP or NIS for identity management
- Set up and administer DNS, POP3, IMAP3, and DHCP servers
- Use GlusterFS, NFS, and Samba for sharing and distributing file system resources
- Explore and implement Linux virtualization technologies using KVM
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- About the Author
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- At a Glance
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Part I: Introduction, Installation, and Software Management
- 1: Technical Summary of Linux Distributions
- 2: Installing Linux in a Server Configuration
- 3: Managing Software
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Part II: Single-Host Administration
- 4: Managing Users and Groups
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5: The Command Line
- An Introduction to BASH
- Command-Line Shortcuts
- Documentation Tools
- Files, File Types, File Ownership, and File Permissions
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File Management and Manipulation
- Copy Files: cp
- Move Files: mv
- Link Files: ln
- Find a File: find
- File Compression: gzip
- bzip2
- Create a Directory: mkdir
- Remove a Directory: rmdir
- Show Present Working Directory: pwd
- Tape Archive: tar
- Concatenate Files: cat
- Display a File One Screen at a Time: more
- Disk Utilization: du
- Show the Directory Location of a File: which
- Locate a Command: whereis
- Disk Free: df
- Synchronize Disks: sync
- Moving a User and Its Home Directory
- Miscellaneous Tools
- Editors
- Summary
- 6: Booting and Shutting Down
- 7: File Systems
- 8: Core System Services
- 9: The Linux Kernel
- 10: Knobs and Dials: Virtual File Systems
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Part III: Networking and Security
- 11: TCP/IP for System Administrators
- 12: Network Configuration
- 13: Linux Firewall (Netfilter)
- 14: Local Security
- 15: Network Security
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Part IV: Internet Services
- 16: DNS
- 17: FTP
- 18: Apache Web Server
- 19: SMTP
- 20: POP and IMAP
- 21: The Secure Shell (SSH)
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Part V: Intranet Services
- 22: Network File System (NFS)
- 23: Samba
- 24: Distributed File Systems
- 25: Network Information Service
- 26: LDAP
- 27: Printing
- 28: DHCP
- 29: Virtualization
- 30: Backups
- Part VI: Appendixes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Linux Administration: A Beginners Guide, Sixth Edition, 6th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2012
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071767590
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