CentOS 6 Linux server cookbook : a practical guide to installing, configuring, and administering the CentOS community-based enterprise server / Jonathan Hobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson, Jonathan.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linux.

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Hobson Jonathan: Jonathan is a web developer, systems engineer and applications programmer, who, for more than 20 years has been working behind the scenes to support companies, organizations and individuals around the world to realize their digital ambitions. With an honors degree in both English and History and as a respected practitioner of many computer languages Jonathan enjoys writing code, publishing articles, building computers, playing the video games and getting 'out and about' in the big outdoors. He has been using CentOS since its inception and over the years, it has not only earned his trust, but it has become his first choice server solution. CentOS is a first class community based enterprise class operating system, it is a pleasure to work with, and because of this Jonathan has written this book in order that his knowledge and experience can be passed on to others.

Summary:

This book is written in cookbook style and it offers learning through recipes with examples and illustrations. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. The book is designed so that you can read it from start to end for beginner's or just open up any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference for advanced users,""CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook"" is for Linux professionals and system administrators using CentOS for their business's server

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Installing CentOS; Introduction; Downloading CentOS and confirming the checksum on a Windows desktop; Performing an installation of CentOS using the graphical installer; Running a netinstall over HTTP; Installing CentOS in Text Mode and building a minimal installation; Re-installing the boot loader; Updating the installation and enhancing; the minimal install with additional administration and development tools; Finishing the installation process with Firstboot

Adding the GNOME desktop environment,changing the runlevel, and installing additional software; Chapter 2: Configuring CentOS; Introduction; Changing the time zone and updating the hardware clock; Synchronizing the system clock with NTP; Setting a static IP address; Binding multiple IP addresses to a single Ethernet device; Bonding two Ethernet devices to increase bandwidth and provide redundancy; Changing the hostname and resolving a fully qualified domain name; Switching SELinux off; Disabling the IPv6 module; Chapter 3: Working with CentOS; Introduction; Creating an administrative user and

becoming root with the switch user command Introducing mailx and forwarding the root's e-mail to an external e-mail address; Automating tasks with cron; Synchronizing files and directories with; rsync and working towards a full system backup with cron; Issuing customized e-mail reports with Mutt; Using logrotate to manage logfiles; Extending log rotation by adding NTP to logrotate; Using chkconfig to enable a custom service at boot; Evaluating current memory usage with the; free and top commands and clearing the memory cache; Chapter 4: Managing Packages with Yum; Introduction

Updating the system with YUMCleaning the YUM cache; Automating Yum updates with Yum-cron; Installing packages with YUM; Removing packages with YUM; Finding packages with YUM; Installing Yum Priorities to support additional repositories; Enhancing CentOS with the EPEL and Remi repositories; Chapter 5: Securing CentOS; Introduction; Escalating user privilege with sudo; Hardening the secure shell environment; Configuring a firewall and working with IPTables; Protecting SSH with fail2ban; Preventing dictionary-based attacks with DenyHosts; Running antivirus scans with ClamAV

Chapter 6: Working with Samba Introduction; Configuring Samba as a standalone server and enabling home directories; Adding, deleting, and disabling a Samba user; Providing a network recycle bin for Samba; Hiding folders and files with Samba; Creating a custom share folder for a specific user or a group of users; Chapter 7: Working with Domains; Introduction; Building a caching-only nameserver with BIND; Writing zone files for BIND; Adding zones to BIND and configuring a nameserver; Deploying a local nameserver with dnsmasq; Logging events with dnsmasq and combining this with logrotate

Enabling domain name wildcards with dnsmasq

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781299485945

1299485944

9781849519038

184951903X

OCLC:

842842528