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| Foreword to the First Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Basic Administration | |
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| Where to Start | |
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| Suggested background | |
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| Linux's relationship to UNIX | |
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| Linux in historical context | |
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| Linux distributions | |
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| Notation and typographical conventions | |
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| Where to go for information | |
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| How to find and install software | |
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| Essential tasks of the system administrator | |
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| System administration under duress | |
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| Recommended reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Booting and Shutting Down | |
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| Bootstrapping | |
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| Booting PCs | |
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| Using boot loaders: LILO and GRUB | |
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| Booting single-user mode | |
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| Working with startup scripts | |
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| Rebooting and shutting down | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Rootly Powers | |
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| Ownership of files and processes | |
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| The superuser | |
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| Choosing a root password | |
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| Becoming root | |
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| Other pseudo-users | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Controlling Processes | |
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| Components of a process | |
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| The life cycle of a process | |
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| Signals | |
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| Kill and killall: send signals | |
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| Process states | |
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| Nice and renice: influence scheduling priority | |
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| ps: monitor processes | |
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| Top: monitor processes even better | |
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| The /proc filesystem | |
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| Strace: trace signals and system calls | |
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| Runaway processes | |
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| Recommended reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Filesystem | |
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| Pathnames | |
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| Filesystem mounting and unmounting | |
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| The organization of the file tree | |
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| File types | |
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| File attributes | |
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| Access control lists | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Adding New Users | |
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| The /etc/passwd file | |
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| The /etc/shadow file | |
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| The /etc/group file | |
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| Adding users | |
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| Removing users | |
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| Disabling logins | |
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| Managing accounts | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Adding a Disk | |
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| Disk interfaces | |
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| Disk geometry | |
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| Linux filesystems | |
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| An overview of the disk installation procedure | |
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| hdparm: set IDE interface parameters | |
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| fsck: check and repair filesystems | |
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| Adding a disk: a step-by-step guide | |
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| Advanced disk management: RAID and LVM | |
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| Mounting USB drives | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Periodic Processes | |
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| Cron: schedule commands | |
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| The format of crontab files | |
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| Crontab management | |
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| Some common uses for cron | |
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| Other schedulers: anacron and fcron | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Backups | |
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| Motherhood and apple pie | |
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| Backup devices and media | |
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| Setting up an incremental backup regime with dump | |
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| Restoring from dumps with restore | |
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| Dumping and restoring for upgrades | |
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| Using other archiving programs | |
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| Using multiple files on a single tape | |
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| Bacula | |
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| Commercial backup products | |
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| Recommended reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Syslog and Log Files | |
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| Logging policies | |
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| Linux log files | |
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| Logrotate: manage log files | |
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| Syslog: the system event logger | |
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| Condensing log files to useful information | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Software and Configuration Management | |
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| Basic Linux installation | |
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| Diskless clients | |
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| Package management | |
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| High-level package management systems | |
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| Revision control | |
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| Localization and configuration | |
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| Configuration management tools | |
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| Sharing software over NFS | |
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| Recommended software | |
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| Recommended reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Networking | |
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| TCP/IP Networking | |
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| TCP/IP and the Internet | |
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| Networking road map | |
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| Packets and encapsulation | |
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| IP addresses: the gory details | |
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| Routing | |
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| ARP: the address resolution protocol | |
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| Addition of a machine to a network | |
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| Distributi | |