Contents
Preface
Organization of the Book
Conventions used in This Book Book
The Open Publication License
Acknowledgments
Part 1
Files and File Systems
1
Linux Files and File Systems
1.1
Understanding File Types
1.2
Determining the File Type
1.3
Creating Files
1.4
Understanding File Systems
1.5
Exploring the File System Hierarchy
2
SuSE and the File System Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
2.1
The Root Directory
2.2
/usr: Secondary hierarchy
2.3
/var: Variable data
3
Collecting System Information
3.1
Process-Specific Subdirectories
3.2
Kernel data
3.3
IDE devices in /proc/ide
3.4
Networking info in /proc/net
3.5
SCSI info
3.6
Parallel port info in /proc/parport
3.7
TTY info in /proc/tty
4
Modifying System Parameters
4.1
/proc/sys/fs - File system data
4.2
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc - Miscellaneous binary formats
4.3
/proc/sys/kernel - general kernel parameters
4.4
/proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem
4.5
/proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters
4.6
/proc/sys/sunrpc - Remote procedure calls
4.7
/proc/sys/net - Networking stuff
4.8
/proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings
4.9
Appletalk
4.10
IPX
Part 2
The Boot Process
5
LILO: From "power on" to "Loading linux..."
5.1
The Four Steps of the Booting Process
5.2
Introducing LILO
5.3
Installing LILO
5.4
Lilo loads Linux
5.5
Linux: The kernel takes the stage
6
The init process: the kernel needs company
6.1
Runlevels
6.2
System V init
6.3
Shutting down the system
7
Customizing the boot process
7.1
Writing rc-scripts
7.2
Adding an rc-script to a runlevel
7.3
Creating customized runlevels
Part 3
System Setup
8
Automating tasks: the system never sleeps
8.1
Using cron to automate tasks
8.2
Standard maintenance tasks set up by SuSE
8.3
Adding customized tasks
8.4
Executing a job once at a specified time
9
TCP/IP networks: some theory
9.1
Managing networks: subnets and routing
9.2
Routing
10
SuSE's scheme of network configuration
10.1
Interface configuration
10.2
Virtual interfaces
10.3
The dummy interface
10.4
Setting up static routing
10.5
ICMP redirects
11
inetd: the Internet super server
11.1
What does inetd do?
11.2
Configuring inetd
12
Basic network services
12.1
Services provided by inetd
12.2
Standard Services
13
SSH: Secure Shell
14
DNS: Domain Name Service
14.1
Configuring the Domain Name Service
14.2
Debugging the Domain Name Service
15
NIS: Network Information Service
15.1
Setting up the Network Information Service
15.2
Setting up an NIS client
15.3
Making sure it works
16
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
16.1
Setting up wu.ftpd
16.2
Anonymous FTP
17
HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
17.1
Walking through the document tree
17.2
Permitting user home pages
17.3
More information
18
SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
18.1
SuSE's standard configuration
18.2
Features of the SuSE setup
18.3
Using m4 macros to set up sendmail
19
Samba - The Server Message Block Protocol (SMB)
20
NFS - Network File System
20.1
The user-space daemon
20.2
The kernel NFS daemon-new and improved
20.3
Controlling the NFS filesystems
20.4
Monitoring NFS
21
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
21.1
Preparations for configuring dhcpd
21.2
Configuring the DHCP server
21.3
A generic example
21.4
More info on DHCP configuration
22
Configuring Dial-in networking
22.1
Hooking up modems
22.2
Mgetty configuration
22.3
Configuring PPP dial-in
Part 4
System Security
23
General Thoughts on Security
24
Host Security
24.1
Security Policies
24.2
Administrative Tasks to Ensure Host Security
24.3
Tripwire
25
PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules
25.1
The PAM configuration scheme
25.2
The configuration file syntax
25.3
PAM modules
25.4
Some examples
26
Network Security
26.1
Network Setup
26.2
The TCP Wrapper
27
The Secure Shell Client
27.1
Cryptography in ssh
27.2
Creating the public and private keys
27.3
Copying the public key to the server machine
27.4
Using ssh
27.5
Ssh-agent as Repository for the Passphrase
28
Packet Filtering with IP-Chains
29
The SuSE packet filter
29.1
Expectations from the packet filter
29.2
The firewall script
29.3
Configuration of the Packet Filter
Part 5
Customized Installations
30
Setting up an Installation Server
30.1
Copying the five CDs into a single tree
30.2
Using the installation server via FTP
30.3
Using the installation server via NFS
30.4
Installing from Scratch Using the Installation Server
31
Diskless Clients
31.1
A guide for diskless clients
31.2
Setting up the server machine
31.3
Creating the Boot Floppy for Clients
31.4
Customizing the Setup for Diskless Operation
31.5
Booting the Client
31.6
Extending the Server to Multiple Clients
32
Setting up an X-Terminal
Part 6
Package Development
33
RPM - The Red Hat Package Manager
33.1
Installing Packages
33.2
Upgrading Packages
33.3
Querying Package Information
33.4
Verification of installed packages
33.5
Removing Packages
34
Compiling SuSE Source Packages
34.1
Installing SRPMs
34.2
The RPM build tree
34.3
Building the Package
35
Creating Your Own RPM Packages
35.1
Roadmap
35.2
Preparing the Source Code
35.3
Integration into the SuSE Setup Scheme
35.4
Creating the Patch-File
35.5
Creating the Spec-File
35.6
Build the RPM and SRPM packages
Appendix
Appendix
A
Linux Allocated Devices
B
GNU General Public License
C
GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
D
Open Publication License
Copyright (c) 1999 by Terrehon Bowden and Bodo Bauer
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