Linux System Administration for CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, Debian and Ubuntu

Contents:

• 1. About the Author
• 2. About this Book
  • 2.1. Typography and Layout
  • 2.2. Contributions and Acknowledgements
    • 2.2.1. Images Used
  • 2.3. License
• 3. Getting Started
• 4. Introducing Linux
  • 4.1. CentOS and Red Hat
  • 4.2. Debian
  • 4.3. Ubuntu
• 5. Installing CentOS or RHEL
  • 5.1. In cloud-environments
  • 5.2. Starting the installation
    • 5.2.1. Keyboard Configuration and Language Support
    • 5.2.2. Network and Hostname
    • 5.2.3. Date & Time
    • 5.2.4. Installation Source and Software Selection
    • 5.2.5. Installation Destination
      • 5.2.5.1. Standard Partition
      • 5.2.5.2. LVM
      • 5.2.5.3. LVM Thin Provisioning
      • 5.2.5.4. Btrfs
      • 5.2.5.5. Creating the essential partitions
    • 5.2.6. KDump
    • 5.2.7. Security Policy
    • 5.2.8. Begin Installation
    • 5.2.9. Finish Installation
• 6. Installing Debian 9
• 7. Logging in and getting around with Linux
  • 7.1. The Virtual Teletype
  • 7.2. Becoming Root
  • 7.3. The Prompt
  • 7.4. Using the shell
    • 7.4.1. Aliases
    • 7.4.2. Internal Commands
    • 7.4.3. External Commands
  • 7.5. I/O Redirection
  • 7.6. Pipelines
• 8. Essential Shell Commands
  • 8.1. cd and pwd
  • 8.2. cat and less
  • 8.3. ls
  • 8.4. File manipulation commands
  • 8.5. Editing files
  • 8.6. Finding help
    • 8.6.1. man
    • 8.6.2. info / pinfo
    • 8.6.3. command help
    • 8.6.4. /usr/share/doc
• 9. File System Hierarchy
  • 9.1. Navigating the directory tree efficiently
  • 9.2. Finding files efficiently
• 10. User Management
  • 10.1. The /etc/passwd file
  • 10.2. The /etc/shadow file
  • 10.3. The password field in /etc/shadow
  • 10.4. Adding a user-account
  • 10.5. The /etc/group file
  • 10.6. Adding a group
  • 10.7. Adding users to a group
• 11. Working with VI(M)
• 12. IP Networking
  • 12.1. Network types
  • 12.2. Addressing
  • 12.3. Ad-Hoc Network Configuration
  • 12.4. Classic network configuration tools
    • 12.4.1. ifconfig
    • 12.4.2. route
    • 12.4.3. netstat
  • 12.5. iproute2
  • 12.6. Network Configuration in CentOS
    • 12.6.1. nmcli
    • 12.6.2. nmtui
    • 12.6.3. nm-connection-editor
    • 12.6.4. configuration files
  • 12.7. Network Configuration in Debian/Ubuntu
• 13. Systemd
  • 13.1. Systemd as pid-1
  • 13.2. Systemd as Service Manager
  • 13.3. Systemd Targets

Indices and tables

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