
1. | ![]() A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux® (Versions 8.10 and 8.04), Second Edition By: Mark G. Sobell Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 30-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 28-DEC-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux® (Versions 8.10 and 8.04), Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.The Most Complete, Easy-to-Follow Guide
to Ubuntu LinuxMark Sobell’s A Practical Guide
to Ubuntu Linux®, Second Edition, isn’t just the
most thorough and up-to-date reference to installing, configuring,
and working with Ubuntu. It also provides comprehensive server
coverage you won’t find in any other Ubuntu book.The fully updated JumpStart sections help
you get complex servers running quickly. Whatever your questions
may be, the completely revamped index gives you even faster access
to the answers you’re searching for. And a brand new...
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2. | ![]() A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine By: Mark Burgess; Æleen Frisch Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 09-APR-2007 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine
Cfengine is a free software package for automating the configuration and maintenance of networked computers. Its purpose is to implement policy-based configuration management. A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine describes all aspects of using Cfengine 2. Beginning with the fundamentals of Cfengine itself, the booklet takes you though the policies, shows you how to build an infrastructure. It then covers host monitoring and anomaly detection, as well as the management process. Finally, the booklet provides case studies and sample policies and a...
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3. | Overview: Advanced UNIX Programming Advanced UNIX Programming goes beyond the fundamentals of UNIX
programming and presents information and techniques the readers
needs to expand their knowledge base. Designed for professional
UNIX programmers, this book builds on the skills and knowledge the
reader already possesses. It includes coverage of internet
processes, interprocess control, file system manipulation,
synchronization, and much more....
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4. | ![]() Automating Linux and Unix System Administration By: Nate Campi; Kirk Bauer Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 30-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Automating Linux and Unix System Administration
Whether you need a network of ten Linux PCs and a server or a datacenter with a few thousand Unix nodes, you need to know how to automate much of the installation, configuration, and standard system administration.
Build your network once using cfengine, and the network build will work, without user intervention, on any hardware you prefer. Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition is unique in its focus on how to make the system administrator's job easier and more efficient: instead of just managing the system administrator's time, the book explains the technology...
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5. | ![]() Automating System Administration with Perl, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 21-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 12-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Automating System Administration with Perl, 2nd Edition
If you do systems administration work of any kind, you have to deal
with the growing complexity of your environment and increasing
demands on your time. Automating System Administration with
Perl, Second Edition, not only offers you the right tools for
your job, but also suggests the best way to approach specific
problems and to securely automate recurring tasks.
Updated and expanded to cover the latest operating systems,
technologies, and Perl modules, this edition of the "Otter Book"
will help you:Manage user accountsMonitor filesystems and processesWork with configuration files in...
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6. | ![]() Backup & Recovery, 1st Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 03-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Backup & Recovery, 1st Edition
Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery
solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well
as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of
Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revised
and expanded with over 75% new material.
Backup & Recovery starts with a complete overview of
backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities
of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. It then explains
several open source backup products that automate backups using
those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula,...
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7. | ![]() Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional By: Peter Seebach Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 05-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional
Portable shell scripting is today the future of modern Linux, OS X, and Unix command-line access. Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional teaches shell scripting by using the common core of most shells and expands those principles to all of scripting.
You will learn about portable scripting and how to use the same syntax and design principles for all shells. You'll discover about the interaction between shells and other scripting languages like Ruby and Python, and everything you learn will be shown in context for Linux, OS X, bash, and AppleScript.
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8. | ![]() Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration: From Novice to Professional By: Sander van Vugt Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 26-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration: From Novice to Professional
You love it as the world's most popular desktop Linux distribution, and now Ubuntu is available at a server near you. Embracing the very same features desktop users have grown to love, system administrators are rapidly adopting Ubuntu due to their ability to configure, deploy, and manage network services more effectively than ever.
Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration guides you through all of the key configuration and administration tasks you'll need to know. Whether you're interested in adopting Ubuntu within a Fortune 500 environment or just want to use Ubuntu to manage your home...
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9. | ![]() By: Dru Lavigne Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 24-MAY-2004 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: BSD Hacks
In the world of Unix operating systems, the various BSDs come with
a long heritage of high-quality software and well-designed
solutions, making them a favorite OS of a wide range of users.
Among budget-minded users who adopted BSD early on to developers of
some of today's largest Internet sites, the popularity of BSD
systems continues to grow. If you use the BSD operating system,
then you know that the secret of its success is not just in its
price tag: practical, reliable, extraordinarily stable and
flexible, BSD also offers plenty of fertile ground for creative,
time-saving tweaks and...
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10. | ![]() BSD Unix® Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD®, OpenBSD, and NetBSD® By: Christopher Negus; Francois Caen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 05-MAY-2008 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: BSD Unix® Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD®, OpenBSD, and NetBSD®
This handy, compact guide teaches you to use BSD UNIX systems as the experts do: from the command line. Try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Apply the skills you learn from this book to use and administer servers and desktops running FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or any other BSD flavor.
Expand your BSD UNIX expertise in these and other areas:
Using the shell
Finding online software
Working with files
Playing with music and images
Administering file systems
Backing up data
Checking...
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