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Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition
By Æleen Frisch
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: August 2002
ISBN	: 0-596-00343-9
Pages	: 1176

		Copyright
		Dedication
		Preface
			The Unix Universe
			Audience
			Organization
			Conventions Used in This Book
			Comments and Questions
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.  Introduction to System Administration
			Section 1.1.  Thinking About System Administration
			Section 1.2.  Becoming Superuser
			Section 1.3.  Communicating with Users
			Section 1.4.  About Menus and GUIs
			Section 1.5.  Where Does the Time Go?
		Chapter 2.  The Unix Way
			Section 2.1.  Files
			Section 2.2.  Processes
			Section 2.3.  Devices
		Chapter 3.  Essential AdministrativeTools and Techniques
			Section 3.1.  Getting the Most from Common Commands
			Section 3.2.  Essential Administrative Techniques
		Chapter 4.  Startup and Shutdown
			Section 4.1.  About the Unix Boot Process
			Section 4.2.  Initialization Files and Boot Scripts
			Section 4.3.  Shutting Down a Unix System
			Section 4.4.  Troubleshooting: Handling Crashes and Boot Failures
		Chapter 5.  TCP/IP Networking
			Section 5.1.  Understanding TCP/IP Networking
			Section 5.2.  Adding a New Network Host
			Section 5.3.  Network Testing and Troubleshooting
		Chapter 6.  Managing Users and Groups
			Section 6.1.  Unix Users and Groups
			Section 6.2.  Managing User Accounts
			Section 6.3.  Administrative Tools for Managing User Accounts
			Section 6.4.  Administering User Passwords
			Section 6.5.  User Authentication with PAM
			Section 6.6.  LDAP: Using a Directory Service for User Authentication
		Chapter 7.  Security
			Section 7.1.  Prelude: What's Wrong with This Picture?
			Section 7.2.  Thinking About Security
			Section 7.3.  User Authentication Revisited
			Section 7.4.  Protecting Files and the Filesystem
			Section 7.5.  Role-Based Access Control
			Section 7.6.  Network Security
			Section 7.7.  Hardening Unix Systems
			Section 7.8.  Detecting Problems
		Chapter 8.  Managing Network Services
			Section 8.1.  Managing DNS Servers
			Section 8.2.  Routing Daemons
			Section 8.3.  Configuring a DHCP Server
			Section 8.4.  Time Synchronization with NTP
			Section 8.5.  Managing Network Daemons under AIX
			Section 8.6.  Monitoring the Network
		Chapter 9.  Electronic Mail
			Section 9.1.  About Electronic Mail
			Section 9.2.  Configuring User Mail Programs
			Section 9.3.  Configuring Access Agents
			Section 9.4.  Configuring the Transport Agent
			Section 9.5.  Retrieving Mail Messages
			Section 9.6.  Mail Filtering with procmail
			Section 9.7.  A Few Final Tools
		Chapter 10.  Filesystems and Disks
			Section 10.1.  Filesystem Types
			Section 10.2.  Managing Filesystems
			Section 10.3.  From Disks to Filesystems
			Section 10.4.  Sharing Filesystems
		Chapter 11.  Backup and Restore
			Section 11.1.  Planning for Disasters and Everyday Needs
			Section 11.2.  Backup Media
			Section 11.3.  Backing Up Files and Filesystems
			Section 11.4.  Restoring Files from Backups
			Section 11.5.  Making Table of Contents Files
			Section 11.6.  Network Backup Systems
			Section 11.7.  Backing Up and Restoring the System Filesystems
		Chapter 12.  Serial Lines and Devices
			Section 12.1.  About Serial Lines
			Section 12.2.  Specifying Terminal Characteristics
			Section 12.3.  Adding a New Serial Device
			Section 12.4.  Troubleshooting Terminal Problems
			Section 12.5.  Controlling Access to Serial Lines
			Section 12.6.  HP-UX and Tru64 Terminal Line Attributes
			Section 12.7.  The HylaFAX Fax Service
			Section 12.8.  USB Devices
		Chapter 13.  Printers and the Spooling Subsystem
			Section 13.1.  The BSD Spooling Facility
			Section 13.2.  System V Printing
			Section 13.3.  The AIX Spooling Facility
			Section 13.4.  Troubleshooting Printers
			Section 13.5.  Sharing Printers with Windows Systems
			Section 13.6.  LPRng
			Section 13.7.  CUPS
			Section 13.8.  Font Management Under X
		Chapter 14.  Automating Administrative Tasks
			Section 14.1.  Creating Effective Shell Scripts
			Section 14.2.  Perl: An Alternate Administrative Language
			Section 14.3.  Expect: Automating Interactive Programs
			Section 14.4.  When Only C Will Do
			Section 14.5.  Automating Complex Configuration Tasks with Cfengine
			Section 14.6.  Stem: Simplified Creation of Client-Server Applications
			Section 14.7.  Adding Local man Pages
		Chapter 15.  Managing System Resources
			Section 15.1.  Thinking About System Performance
			Section 15.2.  Monitoring and Controlling Processes
			Section 15.3.  Managing CPU Resources
			Section 15.4.  Managing Memory
			Section 15.5.  Disk I/O Performance Issues
			Section 15.6.  Monitoring and Managing Disk Space Usage
			Section 15.7.  Network Performance
		Chapter 16.  Configuring and Building Kernels
			Section 16.1.  FreeBSD and Tru64
			Section 16.2.  HP-UX
			Section 16.3.  Linux
			Section 16.4.  Solaris
			Section 16.5.  AIX System Parameters
		Chapter 17.  Accounting
			Section 17.1.  Standard Accounting Files
			Section 17.2.  BSD-Style Accounting: FreeBSD, Linux, and AIX
			Section 17.3.  System V-Style Accounting: AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris
			Section 17.4.  Printing Accounting
		Afterword The Profession of System Administration
			SAGE: The System Administrators Guild
			Administrative Virtues
		Appendix A.  Administrative Shell Programming
			Section A.1.  Basic Syntax
			Section A.2.  The if Statement
			Section A.3.  Other Control Structures
			Section A.4.  Getting Input: The read Command
			Section A.5.  Other Useful Commands
			Section A.6.  Shell Functions
		Colophon
		Index

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