Linux server hacks / Rob Flickenger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flickenger, Rob.

Series:

Hacks series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linux.

Client/server computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A competent system administrator knows that a Linux server is a high performance system for routing large amounts of information through a network connection. Setting up and maintaining a Linux server requires understanding not only the hardware, but the ins and outs of the Linux operating system along with its supporting cast of utilities as well as layers of applications software. There's basic documentation online but there's a lot beyond the basics you have to know, and this only comes from people with hands-on, real-world experience. This kind of ""know how"" is what we sought

Contents:

Contents; Credits; About the Author; Contributors; Acknowledgments; How to Become a Hacker; The Hacker Attitude; 1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.; 2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.; 3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.; 4. Freedom is good.; 5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.; Preface; How This Book Is Organized; How to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Gotta Hack?; Server Basics; Removing Unnecessary Services; See also:; Forgoing the Console Login; Common Boot Parameters; See also:

Creating a Persistent Daemon with initSee also:; n>&m: Swap Standard Output and StandardError; Building Complex Command Lines; Hacking the Hack; Working with Tricky Files in xargs; Listing: albumize; Immutable Files in ext2/ext3; Speeding Up Compiles; At Home in Your Shell Environment; Finding and Eliminating setuid/setgid Binaries; Make sudo Work Harder; Using a Makefile to Automate Admin Tasks; Listing: Makefile.mail; Listing: Makefile.push; Brute Forcing Your New Domain Name; Playing Hunt the Disk Hog; Fun with /proc; Manipulating Processes Symbolically withprocps; See also:

Managing System Resources per ProcessSee also:; Cleaning Up after Ex-Users; Eliminating Unnecessary Drivers from the Kernel; See also:; Using Large Amounts of RAM; hdparm: Fine Tune IDE Drive Parameters; Revision Control; Getting Started with RCS; Checking Out a Previous Revision in RCS; Tracking Changes with rcs2log; Getting Started with CVS; Typical Uses; Creating a Repository; Importing a New Module; Environment Variables; See Also:; CVS: Checking Out a Module; CVS: Updating Your Working Copy; CVS: Using Tags; CVS: Making Changes to a Module; CVS: Merging Files

CVS: Adding and Removing Files and DirectoriesRemoving Files; Removing Directories; CVS: Branching Development; CVS: Watching and Locking Files; CVS: Keeping CVS Secure; Remote Repositories; Permissions; Developer Machines; CVS: Anonymous Repositories; Creating an Anonymous Repository; Installing pserver; Using a Remote pserver; Backups; Backing Up with tar over ssh; See also:; Using rsync over ssh; See also:; Archiving with Pax; Creating Archives; Expanding Archives; Interactive Restores; Recursively Copy a Directory; Incremental Backups; Skipping Files on Restore; See also:

Backing Up Your Boot SectorSee also:; Keeping Parts of Filesystems in sync with rsync; Listing: Balance-push.sh; Automated Snapshot-Style Incremental Backups with rsync; Extensions: Hourly, Daily, and Weekly Snapshots; Listing: make_snapshot.sh; Listing: Daily_snapshot_rotate.sh; Sample Output of ls -l /snapshot/home; See also:; Working with ISOs and CDR/CDRWs; See also:; Burning a CD Without Creating an ISO File; Networking; Creating a Firewall from the Command Line of any Server; See also:; Simple IP Masquerading; See also:; iptables Tips & Tricks; Advanced iptables Features; See also:

Forwarding TCP Ports to Arbitrary Machines

Notes:

"100 industrial-strength tips & tools."

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449378929

1449378927

9780596522155

0596522150