Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, Essential System Administration is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible.
Author(s): Frisch, Æleen
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 1756
City: Sebastopol
Tags: Operating systems (Computers);UNIX (Computer file)
Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition
Audience
Organization
Conventions Used in This Book
Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to System Administration
1.2. Becoming Superuser
1.2.2. Running a Single Command as root
1.2.3. sudo: Selective Access to Superuser Commands
1.3. Communicating with Users
1.3.2. Sending a Message to All Users
1.3.3. The Message of the Day
1.3.4. Specifying the Pre-Login Message
1.4. About Menus and GUIs
1.4.2. AIX: SMIT and WSM
1.4.3. HP-UX: SAM
1.4.4. Solaris: admintool and Sun Management Console
1.4.5. Linux: Linuxconf. 1.4.6. Red Hat Linux: redhat-config-*1.4.7. SuSE Linux: YaST2
1.4.8. FreeBSD: sysinstall
1.4.9. Tru64: SysMan
1.4.10. Other Freely Available Administration Tools
1.4.11. VNC
1.5. Where Does the Time Go?
2. The Unix Way
2.1.1.2. Who owns new files?
2.1.1.3. Changing file ownership
2.1.2. File Protection
2.1.2.2. Access classes
2.1.2.3. Setting file protection
2.1.2.4. Beyond the basics
2.1.2.5. Specifying numeric file.
