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Linux Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Administration Cookbook Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342529
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam K. Dean Adam K. Dean
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Preface 1. Introduction and Environment Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Remote Administration with SSH 3. Networking and Firewalls 4. Services and Daemons 5. Hardware and Disks 6. Security, Updating, and Package Management 7. Monitoring and Logging 8. Permissions, SELinux, and AppArmor 9. Containers and Virtualization 10. Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code 11. Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers 12. Troubleshooting and Workplace Diplomacy 13. BSDs, Solaris, Windows, IaaS and PaaS, and DevOps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Roundup - Troubleshooting and workplace diplomacy

This chapter was something of a mixed bag because I tried to suggest what the best courses of action can be during a production (or even a minor) problem. I included programs I thought might be useful to you in a pinch, some vague directives on what you should think about during an outage, and then concluded with a few suggestions on dealing with other people during what could be the most stressful time of your professional career.

All that said, there's time for a few more points I'd like to make.

Don't trust time

A good 70 percent of the time (random figure), I've found time to be the root cause of most of my problems. It is because of this that one of...

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