List of articles about Linux system administration.
shivalik -- simple configuration backup (defying Murphy's laws) There are a whole lot of HOWTOs out there which tell you what to do if you have a serious problem with your Linux installation. Good for us. But there is no one there who told you what you should do before disaster strikes you!
Gentoo linux Gentoo Linux is a source package based Linux system. It is very different from the established commercial Linux distributions.
uucpssh.org: UUCP e-mail for Linux fans In the windows world incomming mails are received via POP3 or IMAP and outgoing mails are sent directly via SMTP. This split setup can cause all kind of headaches especially if you are using different ISPs all the time.
Rsync: The Best Backup System Ever Backup is one of the hardest and most neglected parts of system administration. This article presents a very easy solution based on rsync.
Accessing PostgreSQL through JDBC via a Java SSL tunnel This article shows how to set up JDBC access for PostgreSQL on redhat 8.0 and how to create a SSL tunnel using Sun's Java Secured Socket Extensions, to enable secured access to a remote postgres database.
External attacks This article presents the different types of external attacks that a cracker can use.
Automating system administration with ssh and scp This article demonstrates the usage of ssh and scp commands to automate system administration jobs, such as installing and configuring software on Linux systems.
Intrusion detection with Debian GNU/Linux The article presents techniques and the tools for Debian GNU/Linux to detect and track people wo broke into your computer network.
Installation of a LAMP-Systems LAMP is an abbreviation for Linux Apache MySQL PHP. In this article you will learn how to install a Webserver based on LAMP.
Root-kit and integrity This article presents the different operations a cracker can do after having succeeded in entering a machine. We will also discuss what an administrator can do to detect that the machine has been jeopardized.
How to secure an heterogeneous network with free tools Security in computers networks is probably one of the biggest technology challenges of the 21st century. This article provides a general overview over the most important aspects.
Linux System Administration - A User's Guide (Book Review) This is a review of the book titled "Linux System Administration - A User's Guide" by Marcel Gagne. The book has 532 pages and 26 chapters that cover installation, daemons, run-levels,file systems, password policy, kernel building, printing, devices, backups, network administration, secure computing, and more.
Chrooting all services in Linux Chrooted system services improve security by limiting damage that someone who broke into the system can possibly do
Through the tunnel Using free SSH with external applications on different OSes
Realtime data mirroring on Linux This article will explain on how to set an inexpensive real.time data replication system on Linux without need of special hardware. This kind of replication will be especially useful for ISPs or webhosts.
Using different ISPs for your Internet access In this article we develop configuration files to easily change between a number of different Internet Service Providers. We extend the configuration not only to one PC but to a whole network using IP masquerading. A DNS proxy will be used to make the changing DNS IP addresses invisible inside the masqueraded network.
Samba Configuration This article describes the configuration of Linux-samba, a server needed to control domains of networks based on MS-windows machines. Examples given here are based on Debian GNU/Linux and Samba 2.0.7
xinetd - extended Internet services daemon xinetd - extended Internet services daemon - provides an excellent security against the intrusions, and limit certain risks of attacks by Deny of Services ( DoS ). It allows, just like the most known pair ( inetd + tcpd ), to set access control to a computer, but its capacities extend well beyond. This article proposes you to discover them.
Building Scalable ISPs with opensource softwares In my last article, I introduced you to using LDAP on Linux. In this article, we will build a scalable ISP that can scale from one to any number of backend machines. The backbone of setting up this ISP is LDAP.
Bastille Linux Available by the beginning of june,version 1.1 of Bastille-Linux is not a new Linux Distribution but a set of security scripts. The authors have adopted a very pedagogic approach and one can learn a lot simply installing these scripts.
Network File System (NFS) Network File System (NFS) is a tool to manage files spread among several computers on a network as if they were on the same local machine. So, the final user does not have to worry of the exact location of its own files in order to access them.
Yellow Pages (Part III) In this last article about NIS, we explain how to install a NIS server. We will see which programs are used, configuration files and the building of the database.
Yellow Pages (Part II) My previous article was an introduction to the yellow pages and RPCs. This one explains how to configure a NIS client, how this client works and a small introduction to the different tools coming with NIS. Finally, we'll have a few words about NIS+
Using LDAP under Linux This article will talk about the benefits of deploying LDAP in an organization and how to implement it on Linux.
Slackware 7.0 part II: Configuration Guide After the installation in the first part, the author now describes some basic configuration tasks in his now favorite Linux distribution. He explains how to configure X, how to compile a kernel (and how to use it with lilo), how to do user account management, how to dial in to internet and how to give your system some basic security.
Slackware 7.0 part I: Installation Guide The author describes in detail the installation of the Slackware 7.0 Linux distribution. This article is written for beginners.
Setting up IP-Masquerading IP-Masquerading provides the possibility to connect several computers to the Internet using a computer running Linux with just one public IP address.
Yellow Pages The Network Information Service (NIS) manages a data base on server. Each computer on a network running a NIS client NIS can then poll the server for informations (login name,password, users and groups informations, ...).
VXE, a Linux security tool Serge Lozovsky presents a software package that he developed to make UNIX systems more secure.
Sendmail and Fetchmail: A local mail server. Sendmail is a powerful but complex software. This article explains how to configure sendmail and fetchmail for use on a typical home computer.
Recycling Ip Addresses with Apache This article demonstrates how to serve multiple virtual web servers using the same Ip address with Apache on Unix/Linux.
How to remove windows This article describes how to remove Windows and give the disk space to Linux without re-installing it
Japanese on Linux Part I This article takes a brief overview at how to make your Linux system Japanese-capable.
Enabling Chinese on Linux This brief article describes how to enable Chinese locale on a "standard" Linux box.
An Introduction to Network Booting and Etherboot An advanced article that explains how to bootstrap your computer from a program stored in non-volatile memory without accessing your hard disk.
TCPD and Firewalls using IPFWADM This article describes very briefly how to configure the inetd services in order to improve security on your system. We concentrate in the of the tool IPFWADM to administer and configure inetd services
Introduction to DNS You may have wondered what happens behind the scenes in Netscape after you enter a URL. This article will help you to understand the name-lookup process.
The X Display Manager The X Display Manager runs as a daemon on a host machine and manages multiple X displays.
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