Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix AdministrationEssential 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. |
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... Postfix, procmail, and setting up POP3 and IMAP. • Additional security topics and techniques, including the secure shell (ssh), onetime passwords, role-based access control (RBAC), chroot jails and sandboxing, and techniques for ...
... Postfix mail transport agents, and the procmail and fetchmail facilities. Chapter 10, Filesystems and Disks, discusses how discrete disk partitions become part of a Unix filesystem. It begins by describing the disk mounting commands and ...
... Postfix electronic mail package. By default, the primary Postfix configuration file, main.cf, is overwritten This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition 24 | Chapter1: Introduction to System Administration Figure 1-7. The SuSE Linux ...
... Postfix SuSEconfig subscript is executed.* The latter happens every time SuSEconfig runs, which is practically every time you change anything on the system with YaST or YaST2 (regardless of its lack of relevance to Postfix). The net ...
... Postfix is a common alternative (its server process is also called sendmail). • Printing: the spooling subsystem also may be entirely local or used for printing to remote systems in addition to (or instead of) locally connected ones ...
Contents
Managing Users and Groups | |
Security | |
Backup and Restore | |
Serial Lines and Devices | |
Printers and the Spooling Subsystem | |
Automating Administrative Tasks | |
Managing System Resources | |
Configuring and Building Kernels | |
Accounting | |
The Profession of System Administration | |
Managing Network Services | |
Electronic Mail | |
Filesystems and Disks | |
Administrative Shell Programming | |
Index | |
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Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers Daniel Power No preview available - 2002 |