Further Reading
Similar to the previous chapter, I strongly suggest you visit Chapter 11, Troubleshooting and Monitoring Your Workloads, to read about logging in Linux, because often, the systemctl status
command doesn't provide you with enough information. I have also already pointed to the blog by Lennart Poettering, and the systemd website.
For Linux security in general, you can start reading the book Mastering Linux Security and Hardening, by Donald A. Tevault. Many of the topics covered in this chapter, and many more besides, are explained in great detail.
The firewalld daemon has a project website, https://firewalld.org, with a blog and excellent documentation. For older distributions, the wiki of Arch Linux is a good place to start to learn more: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/iptables. And since iptables is utilized by firewalld, it's a good start before diving into the man page of firewalld.richlanguage
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All the details regarding SELinux are covered...