March 2007
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
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Table of Contents
Preface
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1. Requirements for a Linux System Administrator
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About This Book 2
How Can We Help? 2
Where Do You Start? 3
Do You Need a Book? 3
Who Needs You? 4
What System Managers Should Know About Linux 6
What’s Next 7
2. Setting Up a Linux Multifunction Server
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Server Requirements 9
Installing Debian 10
Logging in Remotely 12
Configuring the Network 13
Changing the Default Debian Packages 15
Setting Up Quotas 16
Providing Domain Name Services 18
Adding a Relational Database: MySQL 20
Configuring Mail Securely with Postfix, POP3, and IMAP 22
Putting Apache to Work 33
Adding FTP Services with ProFTPD 34
Summarizing Your Web Statistics with Webalizer 35
Synchronizing the System Clock 36
Installing Perl Modules Needed by SpamAssassin 36
What’s Next 37
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3. The Domain Name System
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DNS Basics 38
Getting into the BIND 40
Setting Up a DNS Server 41
Configuring an Authoritative DNS Server 44
Editing the Configuration Files 50
BIND Tools ...
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