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Essential System Administration,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system
administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run
such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and
more. Essential System Administration provides a clear, concise, practical guide
to the real-world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily.
The new edition of this indispensable reference has been fully updated for
all the latest operating systems. Even more importantly, it has been extensively
revised and expanded to consider the current system administrative topics that
administrators need most. Essential System Administration,3rd Edition covers:
DHCP, USB devices, the latest automation tools, SNMP and network management,
LDAP, PAM, and recent security tools and techniques.
Essential System Administration is comprehensive. But what has made this book
the guide system administrators turn to over and over again is not just the
sheer volume of valuable information it provides, but the clear, useful way
the information is presented. It discusses the underlying higher-level concepts,
but it also provides the details of the procedures needed to carry them out.
It is not organized around the features of the Unix operating system, but around
the various facets of a system administrator's job. It describes all the usual
administrative tools that Unix provides, but it also shows how to use them intelligently
and efficiently.
Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative
support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative
functions, Essential System Administration is for you. This comprehensive and
invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical
expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as
possible. Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction to System Administration
Thinking About System Administration
Becoming Superuser
Communicating with Users
About Menus and GUIs
Where Does the Time Go?
2. The Unix Way
Files
Processes
Devices
3. Essential Administrative Tools and Techniques
Getting the Most from Common Commands
Essential 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 Networking
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
Prelude: What's Wrong with This Picture?
Thinking About Security
User Authentication Revisited
Protecting Files and the 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 Contents Files
Network 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 Access 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
The AIX Spooling Facility
Troubleshooting Printers
Sharing Printers with Windows Systems
LPRng
CUPS
Font Management Under X
14. Automating Administrative Tasks
Creating Effective Shell Scripts
Perl: An Alternate 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
AIX System Parameters
17. Accounting
Standard Accounting Files
BSD-Style Accounting: FreeBSD, Linux, and AIX
System V-Style Accounting: AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris
Printing Accounting
Afterword: The Profession of System Administration
SAGE: The System Administrators Guild
Administrative Virtues
Appendix: Administrative Shell Programming
Index
About the Author
Æleen Frisch has been a system administrator for over
20 years, tending a plethora of VMS, Unix, and Windows systems over the years.
Her current system administration responsibilities center on looking after a
very heterogeneous network of Unix and Windows NT/2000/XP systems. She is also
a writer, lecturer, teacher, marketing consultant and occasional database programmer.
She has written eight books, including Essential System Administration (now
in its third edition), Essential Windows NT System Administration and the Windows
2000 Desktop Reference (all from O'Reilly & Associates) and Exploring Chemistry
with Electronic Structure Methods (Gaussian, Inc.). Currently, she writes the
"Guru Guidance" column for Linux Magazine. She also writes poetry
and is currently working on her first novel.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Aug 14, 2003
The bible!!
Another great book from AEleen! This book is probably one of _the_ bibles for Unix system administration. My previous editions retired dog-earred and trashed from constant use (and abuse). If I was stranded on a desert island with a Unix box and only one book (great work, if you can get it), this would be the one!
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