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Linux Server Hacks
By Rob Flickenger
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: January 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00461-3
Pages	: 240

		Copyright
		How to Become a Hacker
			The Hacker Attitude
		Preface
			How This Book is Organized
			How to Use This Book
			Conventions Used in This Book
			How to Contact Us
			Gotta Hack?
			Credits
			Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1.  Server Basics
			Section 1.1.  Hacks #1-22
			Hack 1.  Removing Unnecessary Services
			Hack 2.  Forgoing the Console Login
			Hack 3.  Common Boot Parameters
			Hack 4.  Creating a Persistent Daemon with init
			Hack 5.  n>&m: Swap Standard Output and Standard Error
			Hack 6.  Building Complex Command Lines
			Hack 7.  Working with Tricky Files in xargs
			Hack 8.  Immutable Files in ext2/ext3
			Hack 9.  Speeding Up Compiles
			Hack 10.  At Home in Your Shell Environment
			Hack 11.  Finding and Eliminating setuid/setgid Binaries
			Hack 12.  Make sudo Work Harder
			Hack 13.  Using a Makefile to Automate Admin Tasks
			Hack 14.  Brute Forcing Your New Domain Name
			Hack 15.  Playing Hunt the Disk Hog
			Hack 16.  Fun with /proc
			Hack 17.  Manipulating Processes Symbolically with procps
			Hack 18.  Managing System Resources per Process
			Hack 19.  Cleaning Up after Ex-Users
			Hack 20.  Eliminating Unnecessary Drivers from the Kernel
			Hack 21.  Using Large Amounts of RAM
			Hack 22.  hdparm: Fine Tune IDE Drive Parameters
		Chapter 2.  Revision Control
			Section 2.1.  Hacks #23-36
			Hack 23.  Getting Started with RCS
			Hack 24.  Checking Out a Previous Revision in RCS
			Hack 25.  Tracking Changes with rcs2log
			Hack 26.  Getting Started with CVS
			Hack 27.  CVS: Checking Out a Module
			Hack 28.  CVS: Updating Your Working Copy
			Hack 29.  CVS: Using Tags
			Hack 30.  CVS: Making Changes to a Module
			Hack 31.  CVS: Merging Files
			Hack 32.  CVS: Adding and Removing Files and Directories
			Hack 33.  CVS: Branching Development
			Hack 34.  CVS: Watching and Locking Files
			Hack 35.  CVS: Keeping CVS Secure
			Hack 36.  CVS: Anonymous Repositories
		Chapter 3.  Backups
			Section 3.1.  Hacks #37-44
			Hack 37.  Backing Up with tar over ssh
			Hack 38.  Using rsync over ssh
			Hack 39.  Archiving with Pax
			Hack 40.  Backing Up Your Boot Sector
			Hack 41.  Keeping Parts of Filesystems in sync with rsync
			Hack 42.  Automated Snapshot-Style Incremental Backups with rsync
			Hack 43.  Working with ISOs and CDR/CDRWs
			Hack 44.  Burning a CD Without Creating an ISO File
		Chapter 4.  Networking
			Section 4.1.  Hacks #45-53
			Hack 45.  Creating a Firewall from the Command Line of any Server
			Hack 46.  Simple IP Masquerading
			Hack 47.  iptables Tips & Tricks
			Hack 48.  Forwarding TCP Ports to Arbitrary Machines
			Hack 49.  Using Custom Chains in iptables
			Hack 50.  Tunneling: IPIP Encapsulation
			Hack 51.  Tunneling: GRE Encapsulation
			Hack 52.  Using vtun over ssh to Circumvent NAT
			Hack 53.  Automatic vtund.conf Generator
		Chapter 5.  Monitoring
			Section 5.1.  Hacks #54-65
			Hack 54.  Steering syslog
			Hack 55.  Watching Jobs with watch
			Hack 56.  What's Holding That Port Open?
			Hack 57.  Checking On Open Files and Sockets with lsof
			Hack 58.  Monitor System Resources with top
			Hack 59.  Constant Load Average Display in the Titlebar
			Hack 60.  Network Monitoring with ngrep
			Hack 61.  Scanning Your Own Machines with nmap
			Hack 62.  Disk Age Analysis
			Hack 63.  Cheap IP Takeover
			Hack 64.  Running ntop for Real-Time Network Stats
			Hack 65.  Monitoring Web Traffic in Real Time with httptop
		Chapter 6.  SSH
			Section 6.1.  Hacks #66-71
			Hack 66.  Quick Logins with ssh Client Keys
			Hack 67.  Turbo-mode ssh Logins
			Hack 68.  Using ssh-Agent Effectively
			Hack 69.  Running the ssh-Agent in a GUI
			Hack 70.  X over ssh
			Hack 71.  Forwarding Ports over ssh
		Chapter 7.  Scripting
			Section 7.1.  Hacks #72-75
			Hack 72.  Get Settled in Quickly with movein.sh
			Hack 73.  Global Search and Replace with Perl
			Hack 74.  Mincing Your Data into Arbitrary Chunks (in bash)
			Hack 75.  Colorized Log Analysis in Your Terminal
		Chapter 8.  Information Servers
			Section 8.1.  Hacks #76-100
			Hack 76.  Running BIND in a chroot Jail
			Hack 77.  Views in BIND 9
			Hack 78.  Setting Up Caching DNS with Authority for Local Domains
			Hack 79.  Distributing Server Load with Round-Robin DNS
			Hack 80.  Running Your Own Top-Level Domain
			Hack 81.  Monitoring MySQL Health with mtop
			Hack 82.  Setting Up Replication in MySQL
			Hack 83.  Restoring a Single Table from a Large MySQL Dump
			Hack 84.  MySQL Server Tuning
			Hack 85.  Using proftpd with a mysql Authentication Source
			Hack 86.  Optimizing glibc, linuxthreads, and the Kernel for a Super MySQL Server
			Hack 87.  Apache Toolbox
			Hack 88.  Display the Full Filename in Indexes
			Hack 89.  Quick Configuration Changes with IfDefine
			Hack 90.  Simplistic Ad Referral Tracking
			Hack 91.  Mimicking FTP Servers with Apache
			Hack 92.  Rotate and compress Apache Server Logs
			Hack 93.  Generating an SSL cert and Certificate Signing Request
			Hack 94.  Creating Your Own CA
			Hack 95.  Distributing Your CA to Client Browsers
			Hack 96.  Serving multiple sites with the same DocumentRoot
			Hack 97.  Delivering Content Based on the Query String Using mod_rewrite
			Hack 98.  Using mod_proxy on Apache for Speed
			Hack 99.  Distributing Load with Apache RewriteMap
			Hack 100.  Ultrahosting: Mass Web Site Hosting with Wildcards, Proxy, and Rewrite
		Colophon
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