LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

by Tom Adelstein

For experienced system administrators looking to acquire Linux skills, and seasoned Linux users facing a new challenge, Linux System Administration provides advice for managing a complete range of systems and servers. This book summarizes the steps you need to build everything from standalone SOHO hubs, web servers, and LAN servers to load-balanced clusters and servers consolidated through virtualization. You'll also learn about the tools you need to set up and maintain these working environments.Linux System Administration serves as an introduction to Linux for Unix veterans, MCSEs, and mainframe administrators, and as an advanced guide for existing Linux administrators who want to refresh or enhance their skills.Inside, you'll learn how configure, maintain, and troubleshoot a DNS server using BINDSet up an email service for a small- to medium-size site, complete with authenticationInstall and configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a web server built from scratchCombine computers into a load-balanced Apache web server cluster based on the free Linux Virtual ServerUse Linux virtualization with Xen or VMWare to run multiple kernels on one piece of hardware; manage each kernel's access to processor time, devices, and memoryCreate shell scripts and adapt them for your own needsBack up and restore data with rsync, tar, cdrecord, Amanda, and MySQL toolsLinux System Administration offers a wealth of knowledge and experience in one convenient place. In the course of their research, the authors solved many problems that were completely undocumented previously. They now pass their lessons on to you. About the Authors Tom Adelstein works as a technical analyst writer for a large international publishing company headquartered in Texas. He became a young author in 1985 and has written prolifically ever since. Tom's career began as a CPA and progressed into investment banking where he excelled by using computer technology to help his companies bec

Genres: Computers, Technical, Reference

310 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

How did I become an author? First, I starting writing early in life, pursued the craft at school, majored in English literature, worked as a writer-for-hire, obtained expertise in other fields, learned to accept rejection and kept at it. Foremost, I treat writing as a craft, something that has a standard body of knowledge or a cerebral side as well as the dominant creative side.

After college, I knew that 8 cents a word per printed page would not get me through the week financially. I retraced some footsteps and entered the business world. I spent several years as a busy investigative reporter and member of the Computer Press Association, specializing in computer security before it became a fad, so I went into the field very early and found I had a knack for it. I embraced community software development over the Internet. Not long ago, I specialized in government system development and achieved notoriety as a result. Eventually, I joined a consulting and advocacy group and have seen and done things people can't begin to imagine. I went from a part-time to full-time author in 2003.

In 1985, the Longman Pearson Group, Chicago published 'How to Read Analyze and Select Private Real Estate Offerings' which became a breakthrough in my career. I've also published with Macmillan, New York and O'Reilly Media, Cambridge and Sebastopol, CA as you can see in my list of books on the left of this page. I've also penned over 100 articles as an investigative journalist which were published in Forbes, Government Computing, Linux Journal, Investment Advisory Monthly, and O'Reilly Technical Media among others.

I segued back from Non-Fiction to Suspense and brought a lot of experiences to the projects. Many of my books aren't listed on this page either because they're no longer in print or Author Central doesn't compute the ISBN numbers. Contact me through twitter or my blog and I'll complete the list for you. If you live in France, Russia, Turkey, Serbia, Japan or Korea, then I can point out places to find titles.

Reviews

[Jon]

Didn't actually try any of the examples in this book. Some chapters, particularly the earlier ones seemed good, although possibly a little confusing. [return][return]I might recommend this to someone with a decent computer knowledge and a bit of linux knowledge that wanted to get started doing more. One thing though is I am leery about the use of some of the graphical systems and the sudden switching around towards the end of distributions and approaches. Almost feels like each author wrote different sections and used the distro they were more comfortable with. [return][return]Good starting point though. I imagine for those who like to have a book nearby they could figure out areas they're weak in as far as basic setups of various systems.

[Seth Kenlon · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far this is a good solid book on some of, if you will, the basics of Advanced Linux SysAdmin'ing. Not for a noob to Linux, but for an experienced Linux geek just starting to actually administer a more complex system than their own computer. I won this book at Ohio Linux Fest, actually!

[Alamin · Rating 2 out of 5]

not so fascinating...

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

sloppy ordering