[share_ebook] Linux System Administration

If you are an seasoned technique administrator hunting to obtain Linux capabilities, or a seasoned Linux user facing a new problem, Linux Technique Administration delivers useful understanding for controlling a comprehensive array of Linux techniques and servers. The guide summarizes the methods you need to have to develop every thing from standalone SOHO hubs, net servers, and LAN servers to load-balanced clusters and servers consolidated via virtualization. Alongside the way, you\'ll discover about all of the tools you require to set up and preserve these functioning environments. Linux is now a regular corporate platform with end users numbering in the hundreds of millions, and there is a definite shortage of proficient administrators. Linux Technique Administration is best as an introduction to Linux for Unix veterans, MCSEs, and mainframe administrators, and as an advanced (and refresher) manual for current Linux administrators who will want to jump into the middle of the book. Inside, you\'ll understand how to:

• Set up a stand-on your own Linux server

• Install, configure, sustain, and troubleshoot a DNS server utilizing BIND

• Develop an Web server to deal with web sites, complete email and file transfers, and much more

• Set up an electronic mail services for a little-to-medium-sized internet site, full with authentication

• Set up and configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a web server constructed from scratch

• Combine personal computers into a load-balanced Apache world wide web server cluster centered on the totally free Linux Virtual Server

• Set up nearby network companies from distributed file programs to DHCP solutions, gateway solutions, print services, user administration and a lot more

• Use Linux virtualization with Xen or VMWare to run multiple kernels on 1 piece of hardware handle every kernel\'s entry to processor time, devices, and memory

• Make shell scripts and adapt them for your personal demands

• Again up and restore information with rsync, tar, cdrecord, Amanda, and MySQL instruments

Linux Technique Administration is not only well-informed and useful, but hassle-free. The ingredients for this ebook had been scattered all the way through mailing lists, discussion boards, and discussion groups, as well as publications, periodicals, and the encounters of colleagues. Every little thing is now in a single handy guidebook. In the training course of their research, the authors also solved many difficulties whose options had been entirely undocumented. They now pass their lessons on to you.