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Mastering Linux Administration

You're reading from   Mastering Linux Administration Take your sysadmin skills to the next level by configuring and maintaining Linux systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630691
Length 764 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Julian Balog Julian Balog
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Alexandru Calcatinge Alexandru Calcatinge
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Basic Linux Administration
2. Chapter 1: Installing Linux FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Linux Shell and Filesystem 4. Chapter 3: Linux Software Management 5. Chapter 4: Managing Users and Groups 6. Chapter 5: Working with Processes, Daemons, and Signals 7. Part 2:Advanced Linux Administration
8. Chapter 6: Working with Disks and Filesystems 9. Chapter 7: Networking with Linux 10. Chapter 8: Linux Shell Scripting 11. Chapter 9: Securing Linux 12. Chapter 10: Disaster Recovery, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting 13. Part 3:Server Administration
14. Chapter 11: Working with Virtual Machines 15. Chapter 12: Managing Containers with Docker 16. Chapter 13: Configuring Linux Servers 17. Part 4:Cloud Administration
18. Chapter 14: Short Introduction to Cloud Computing 19. Chapter 15: Deploying to the Cloud with AWS and Azure 20. Chapter 16: Deploying Applications with Kubernetes 21. Chapter 17: Infrastructure and Automation with Ansible 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the installation and configuration processes for the most well-known services available for Linux. Knowing how to configure all the servers described in this chapter—from DNS to DHCP, Apache, and a printing server—is a minimum requirement for any Linux administrator.

By going through this chapter, you learned how to provide essential services for any Linux server. You learned how to set up and configure a web server using the Apache package; how to provide networked printing services to a small office or home office; how to run an FTP server and share files over TCP; how to share files with Windows clients on your network using the Samba/CIFS protocol; how to share files over Unix and Linux systems using the NFS file-sharing protocol; how to set up NTP to show an accurate time; and how to configure DNS and local DHCP servers. In a nutshell, you learned a lot in this chapter, and yet we have barely scratched the surface of Linux server...

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