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Linux System Administration

(in Small Bites!)

S Michael

An introduction to Linux for anyone who ever found text books a bit dry. Learning real Linux skills can be fun. We start with some basics and increase our skills step by step until we are comfortable and confident. We use small building blocks to tackle everyday Linux system administration tasks.

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You can learn Linux today. It can be fun. This book can help you on your journey. This book is for anyone who has wanted to learn but has struggled. Written by an accomplished Linux Engineer and mentor this book will help you to learn the building blocks and how to assemble them to accomplish real work. Every utility and method covered in this book will contribute to your growth as a Linux administrator while you run a small business, contribute within a global organisation or simply run a home network on Linux. Buy the book and get started. You can do it.

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Based in the English Midlands, the author is a student of art and science and a writer of fiction and non-fiction.

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Part I

  1. Introduction
  2. Who is this for?
  3. Wait! Where am I? ls and pwd
  4. Where is that darn thing..? find
  5. Know when to count them. wc
  6. Composition? So soon? The pipe | operator
  7. What’s in the box? grep
  8. Wrap up your commands! Python
  9. What’s in a file? cat and stat
  10. Test for… echo
  11. Composition? Again? Writing a Function
  12. The magic of… touch
  13. Make your mark. mkdir
  14. What does this thing do? man
  15. Just a little please… head and tail
  16. The meaning of life and other easy things… vim
  17. You what!? emacs
  18. A Real World Scenario
  19. Wrap it up to go please. tar
  20. Squeeze it… unsqueeze it… gzip
  21. Squeeze and send. tar and gzip

Part II

  1. The cornerstone. lsblk
  2. All things Internet. ip
  3. What time is it? date
  4. My lil’ file system. fstab and blkid
  5. Whodat? id
  6. useradd and passwd
  7. My own special number… groupadd
  8. A package? For me? yum
  9. Reverse it? Yes, back it up! backups
  10. Note: The audit.log file itself is in service collecting audit information; the files with a number after the name have been rolled out of service and are good candidates for compressing and backing up.
  11. Major Tom. systemctl
  12. wheel and sudo
  13. Who ate my disk? df and du

Part III

  1. Secret Squirrel. ssh
  2. Snooping around. ps
  3. Shwhat? chmod
  4. The Man in the Iron… umask
  5. Sticky wicket… sticky bit
  6. Sock it to me. netstat and ss
  7. The Crystal Ball? smartctl
  8. What just happened? journalctl
  9. The Big Guns. curl (and wget)
  10. Some more please..? ip
  11. Who goes there? lsof

Part IV

  1. The Kitchen… rsync
  2. Its time to take action! cron
  3. This is getting serious… systemd services and timers
  4. Appendix A
  5. VirtualBox
  6. Cygwin
  7. Ubuntu App for Windows 10
  8. WinSCP

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