Linux Server Hacks,9780596004613

Linux Server Hacks

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780596004613
ISBN10: 0596004613
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

This handy new book's collection of tips, tools and scripts reflect the real-world experience of expert system administrators who managed Linux servers the hard way, through years of tedious trial and error. Each hack in this book can be read easily in a few minutes, saving countless hours of searching for the right answer. Linux Server Hacks includes tips for Apache, MySQL and other open source tools that are typically part of a Linux server installation, and covers system monitoring tools for performance tracking and tuning.

Author Biography

Rob Flickenger has been a professional systems administrator for more than 10 years, and all around hacker for as long as he can remember. Rob enjoys spreading the good word of open networks, open standards, and ubiquitous wireless networking. His current professional project is Metrix Communication LLC, which provides wireless hardware and software that embodies the same open source principles he rants about in his books. Rob also works with the U.N. and various international organizations to bring these ideas to places where communications infrastructure is badly needed. He hopes that all of this effort is contributing toward the ultimate goal of infinite bandwidth everywhere for free. He is the author of Linux Server Hacks, Wireless Hacks, and Building Wireless Community Networks (which is in its second edition).

Table of Contents

How to Become a Hacker vii
Preface xi
Server Basics 1(2)
Removing Unnecessary Services
3(3)
Forgoing the Console Login
6(1)
Common Boot Parameters
7(1)
Creating a Persistent Daemon with init
8(2)
n>&m: Swap Standard Output and Standard Error
10(2)
Building Complex Command Lines
12(3)
Working with Tricky Files in xargs
15(2)
Immutable Files in ext2/ext3
17(1)
Speeding Up Compiles
18(1)
At Home in Your Shell Environment
19(3)
Finding and Eliminating setuid/setgid Binaries
22(3)
Make sudo Work Harder
25(2)
Using a Makefile to Automate Admin Tasks
27(2)
Brute Forcing Your New Domain Name
29(1)
Playing Hunt the Disk Hog
29(2)
Fun with /proc
31(3)
Manipulating Processes Symbolically with procps
34(1)
Managing System Resources per Process
35(2)
Cleaning Up after Ex-Users
37(2)
Eliminating Unnecessary Drivers from the Kernel
39(3)
Using Large Amounts of RAM
42(1)
hdparm: Fine Tune IDE Drive Parameters
43(3)
Revision Control 46(17)
Getting Started with RCS
47(1)
Checking Out a Previous Revision in RCS
48(1)
Tracking Changes with rcs2log
49(2)
Getting Started with CVS
51(3)
CVS: Checking Out a Module
54(1)
CVS: Updating Your Working Copy
54(1)
CVS: Using Tags
55(1)
CVS: Making Changes to a Module
56(1)
CVS: Merging Files
57(1)
CVS: Adding and Removing Files and Directories
57(1)
CVS: Branching Development
58(1)
CVS: Watching and Locking Files
59(1)
CVS: Keeping CVS Secure
60(1)
CVS: Anonymous Repositories
61(2)
Backups 63(24)
Backing Up with tar over ssh
64(1)
Using rsync over ssh
65(1)
Archiving with Pax
66(6)
Backing Up Your Boot Sector
72(1)
Keeping Parts of Filesystems in sync with rsync
73(5)
Automated Snapshot-Style Incremental Backups with rsync
78(6)
Working with ISOs and CDR/CDRWs
84(1)
Burning a CD Without Creating an ISO File
85(2)
Networking 87(23)
Creating a Firewall from the Command Line of any Server
87(3)
Simple IP Masquerading
90(1)
iptables Tips & Tricks
91(2)
Forwarding TCP Ports to Arbitrary Machines
93(1)
Using Custom Chains in iptables
94(2)
Tunneling: IPIP Encapsulation
96(2)
Tunneling: GRE Encapsulation
98(1)
Using vtun over ssh to Circumvent NAT
99(6)
Automatic vtund.conf Generator
105(5)
Monitoring 110(29)
Steering syslog
110(3)
Watching Jobs with watch
113(1)
What's Holding That Port Open?
114(1)
Checking On Open Files and Sockets with lsof
115(3)
Monitor System Resources with top
118(1)
Constant Load Average Display in the Titlebar
119(2)
Network Monitoring with ngrep
121(2)
Scanning Your Own Machines with nmap
123(1)
Disk Age Analysis
124(2)
Cheap IP Takeover
126(3)
Running ntop for Real-Time Network Stats
129(2)
Monitoring Web Traffic in Real Time with httptop
131(8)
SSH 139(10)
Quick Logins with ssh Client Keys
139(2)
Turbo-mode ssh Logins
141(1)
Using ssh-Agent Effectively
142(2)
Running the ssh-Agent in a GUI
144(1)
X over ssh
145(1)
Forwarding Ports over ssh
146(3)
Scripting 149(8)
Get Settled in Quickly with movein.sh
149(2)
Global Search and Replace with Perl
151(2)
Mincing Your Data into Arbitrary Chunks (in bash)
153(2)
Colorized Log Analysis in Your Terminal
155(2)
Information Servers 157(56)
Running BIND in a chroot Jail
158(2)
Views in BIND 9
160(5)
Setting Up Caching DNS with Authority for Local Domains
165(2)
Distributing Server Load with Round-Robin DNS
167(1)
Running Your Own Top-Level Domain
168(1)
Monitoring MySQL Health with mtop
169(3)
Setting Up Replication in MySQL
172(3)
Restoring a Single Table from a Large MySQL Dump
175(1)
MySQL Server Tuning
175(3)
Using proftpd with a mysql Authentication Source
178(2)
Optimizing glibc, linuxthreads, and the Kernel for a Super MySQL Server
180(2)
Apache Toolbox
182(3)
Display the Full Filename in Indexes
185(1)
Quick Configuration Changes with IfDefine
186(2)
Simplistic Ad Referral Tracking
188(3)
Mimicking FTP Servers with Apache
191(2)
Rotate and compress Apache Server Logs
193(1)
Generating an SSL cert and Certificate Signing Request
194(2)
Creating Your Own CA
196(2)
Distributing Your CA to Client Browsers
198(3)
Serving multiple sites with the same DocumentRoot
201(2)
Delivering Content Based on the Query String Using mod_rewrite
203(1)
Using mod_proxy on Apache for Speed
204(2)
Distributing Load with Apache RewriteMap
206(2)
Ultrahosting: Mass Web Site Hosting with Wildcards, Proxy, and Rewrite
208(5)
Index 213

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