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  • From: "Beth Ellison" <leonardbernst55 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: proposal for linux sys admin book
  • Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:59:45 -0400


Topics for a possible linux sys admin book. Anyone *interested* care to read over it and make suggestions?


thanky,
Beth



1) Overview - The Sys Administrator
The OS
The Kernel
UNIX services (init, logins from terminals, syslog, periodic command execution with cron and at, GUIs, networking, network logins, NFS, mail, printing, filesystem layout

2) Overview of the Directory Tree

3) Essential Tools(grep, awk, man pages, find, xargs, creating several directory levels at once, duplicating an entire directory tree, comparing directories, deleting unwanted files with emacs,

4) Automating Tasks with scrips, cron, etc.

5) Disks and other Media Storage (various types of storage, partitions, filesystems, allocating disk space

6) Managing System Resources (virtual memory, swap, the buffer cache, managing disk space, monitoring and controlling CPU activity)

7) Booting and Shutting Down (overview of boots and shutdowns, rebooting, single-user mode, emergency boot floppies)

8) init (overview of init, configuring init to start getty, run levels, booting in single-user mode

9) Logging in and out (via terminals, via the network, X and xdm, access control, shell startup)

10) Managing User Accounts (overview, creating, changing properties, removing, temporarily disabling)

11) Terminals and Modems (terminal related files, adding a new device, troubleshooting terminal problems, configuring a dialin/dialout modem, controlling access to serial lines,

12) TCP/IP Network Management (overview, adding a new host, NFS, NIS, network security)

13) Email (configuring, system-wide email config files, aliases and distribution lists)

14) Printing (spooling, troubleshooting, remote printing)

15) Configuring and Building Kernels

16) Accounting (standard accounting files, BSD accounting, System V accounting)

17) Backups (compression, archiving, etc.)

18) Security & Firewalls

19) Time (time zones, hardware and software clocks)






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  • proposal for linux sys admin book, Beth Ellison, 09/21/2001

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