Installing Linux?
Pre-Installation checklist.
What are the considerations for partitioning?
What are the considerations for swap space?
What are various sources of Linux installation?
What are steps of installation?
How to check the installation logs?
Where is Linux help?
Introduction to Networking, Network devices and related concepts?
What is a N/W interface?
What Is Duplex?
What Is A Hub?
What Is A Switch?
What Is A LAN?
What Is A Router?
What Is A Gateway?
What Is A Route?
What Is A Default Gateway?
What Is A NIC?
What Does The "Link" Light On My NIC Indicate?
What Is A MAC Address?
What Is TCP/IP?
What are classes of IP Addresses?
What Is Localhost?
What Is A Subnet Mask?
How Many Addresses Do I Get With My Mask?
What's The Range Of Addresses On My Network?
What is the need of Subnetting?
Case study of subnetting.
What is a loopback address?
What Is ARP?
What Is UTP 5 category cable?
What Is A Straight Through / Crossover Cable?
What Is DHCP?
What Is DNS?
How Can I Check The IP Address For A Domain?
How Do I Get My Own DNS Domain Name?
What is FTP?
What is telnet?
Linux Networking
How To Configure Your NIC's IP Address
How To Configure multiple IP Addresses for same N/W Interface
How To Change Your Default Gateway
How Configure Two Gateways
How To Delete A Route
How To View Your Current Routing Table
When to use proxy ARP
How To Change The Duplex Setting Of Your NIC
How to use ethtool and mii-tool
How To Convert Your Linux Server Into A Router
Configuring IP forwarding
Various N/W configuration files.
Configuring Your /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf Files
How to configure your NIC for DSL and cable modem Internet connections
Simple Network Troubleshooting
How To See Your ARP Table
How to do Cable Link tests at MAC level usng arping
Testing Your NIC
How to See MAC Addresses
Using ping to Test Network Connectivity
Using telnet to Test Network Connectivity
Testing Web sites with the curl and wget Utilities
The netstat Command
Using traceroute to Test Connectivity
Using MTR To Detect Network Congestion
Viewing Packet Flows with tcpdump
Viewing Packet Flows with tethereal
Basic DNS Troubleshooting with the nslookup and host commands
How to do Port Scanning using nmap.
Determining the Source of an Attack
Who Has Used My System?
Troubleshooting Linux With Syslog
/etc/syslog.conf
How to activate changes to /etc/syslog.conf
How to View New Log Entries as They Happen
Logrotate
/etc/logrotate.conf File
Sample Contents of /etc/logrotate.conf
How to activate logrotate
Compressing Your Log Files
syslog-ng
The /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf file
Installing syslog-ng
Configuring syslog-ng Clients
Simple syslog Security
Installing Linux Software
Where To Get Commonly Used RPMs
How to Easily Access CD RPMs With Automount
Getting RPMs Using Web Based FTP
Getting RPMs Using Command Line Anonymous FTP
Getting RPMs Using WGET
Automatic Updates With yum
Automatic Updates With Up2date
How To Install The RPMs
How to Install Source RPMs
RPM Installation Errors
How To List Installed RPMs
How To List All The Files Inside An RPM
How Uninstall RPMs
Which RPMs Will Start Up At Boot Time?
Installing TAR files
Installing Perl modules
The Linux Boot Process
The RedHat Boot Sequence
Changing Default Boot runlevel
Get A GUI Console Without Changing runlevels
Get A Basic Text Terminal Without Exiting The GUI
Switching runlevels on the fly
How To Set Which Programs Run At Each runlevel
How to enter single user mode
Using ntsysv and chkconfig
Configuring A Linux DHCP Server
Download & Install The DHCP Package
The /etc/dhcp.conf File
Modify Your Routes for DHCP on Linux Server
Configuring Linux clients to use DHCP
Adding Linux Users And Sudo
Who Is The Super User?
How To Add Users
How To Delete Users
How To Tell The Groups To Which A User Belongs
How To Change Your Password
What is sudo?
Download & Install The sudo Package
The /etc/sudoers File
How to add sudoers
How To Use sudo
Using syslog To Track All sudo Commands
Configuring Samba
How to Install Samba packages
How To start Samba
The Samba Configuration File
How SWAT Makes Samba Simpler
Creating A Starter Configuration
Fine Tuning The Configuration
Sharing Resources with Samba
Adding A Printer To A Samba PDC
Creating Group Shares in SAMBA
Windows Drive Sharing With Your SAMBA Server
Linux Wireless Networking
Wireless Linux Compatible NICs
Common Wireless Networking Terms
Networking With Linux Wireless-Tools
Configuring 802.11g with Linux Incompatible NICs (With an NDIS wrapper example)
Compiling ndiswrapper
Networking With Linux-WLAN
Linux-WLAN Preparation
Installing The Linux-WLAN Drivers
Post Installation Steps
Linux-WLAN Encryption For Security
Troubleshooting Your Wireless LAN
Wireless Networks In Businesses
Linux Firewalls Using iptables
What Is iptables?
Using iptables as part of your web server management security plan
Download And Install The Iptables Package
How To Get iptables Started
Packet Processing In iptables
Iptables Packet Flow Diagram
Processing For Packets Routed By The Firewall
Packet Processing For Data Received By The Firewall
Packet Processing For Data Sent By The Firewall
Targets And Jumps
Descriptions Of The Most Commonly Used Targets
Important Iptables Command Switch Operations
General Iptables Match Criteria
Common TCP and UDP Match Criteria
Common ICMP (Ping) Match Criteria
Common Match Extensions Criteria
Using User Defined Chains
Sample iptables Scripts
Basic Initialization
Allowing DNS Access To Your Firewall
Allowing WWW And SSH Access To Your Firewall
Allowing Your Firewall To Access The Internet
Allow Your Home Network To Access The Firewall
IP Masquerade
Regular Masquerading (Many to One Network Address Translation)
Port Forwarding Type NAT
Static NAT
Logging & Troubleshooting
Configuring a Linux FTP server
FTP Overview
Problems with FTP and firewalls
How To Download And Install The VSFTP Package
How To Get VSFTP Started
Testing To See If VSFTP Is Running
What Is Anonymous FTP?
The /etc/vsftpd.conf File
How to configure VSFTPD to run with authenticated logins
Secure Remote Logins & File Copying
Using Secure Shell As A Replacement For Telnet
Testing To See If SSH Is Running
The /etc/ssh/sshd_config File
Using SSH To Login To A Remote Machine
What You Should Expect To See When You Log In
Deactivating Telnet once SSH is installed
Using SCP as a more secure replacement for FTP
Copying files using SCP without a password
Configuring DNS
What Is DNS?
What Is BIND?
How DNS is critical to Web Hosting
When To Use A DNS Caching Name Server
When To Use A Regular DNS Server
How To Download & Install The BIND Packages
How To Get BIND Started
Configuring A Caching Name Server
Configuring A Regular Name Server
Web Hosting With The Apache Web Server
Download & Install The Apache Package
How To Get Apache Started
Configuring DNS For Apache
General Configuration Steps
File Permissions And Apache
Virtual Hosting - Single IP Address - Many Sites
Apache Running On A Server Behind A Firewall
How To Protect Web Page Directories With Passwords
Remote Disk Access With NFS
Installing NFS
How To Get NFS Started
The /etc/exports File
Activating Modifications The Exports File
NFS And DNS
Configuring The NFS Client
Other NFS Considerations
Controlling Web Usage With Squid
Download and Install The Squid Package
The /etc/squid/squid.conf File
Configuring Web Browsers To Use Your Squid Server
How To Get Squid Started
Squid And Firewalls
Squid Disk Usage
Troubleshooting Squid
Other Squid Capabilities
Basic MySQL Configuration
Installing MySQL
Starting MySQL
A Common Fedora MySQL Startup Error
The Location of MySQL Databases
Creating a MySQL "root" Account
Accessing The MySQL Command Line
Creating and Deleting MySQL Databases
Recovering Your MySQL Root Password
MySQL Granting Privileges to Users
MySQL Database Backup
MySQL Database Restoration
Very Basic MySQL Network Security
Configuring Linux Mail
Configuring Sendmail
How Sendmail Works
Installing Sendmail
Starting Sendmail
How To Restart Sendmail After Editing Your Configuration Files
The /etc/mail/sendmail.mc File
Configuring DNS for sendmail
How To Configure Linux Sendmail Clients
Converting From a Mail Client to a Mail Server
The /etc/mail/relay-domains File
The /etc/mail/access File
The /etc/mail/local-host-names File
Which User Should Really Receive The Mail?
Sendmail Masquerading Explained
Using Sendmail to Change the Sender's Email Address
Troubleshooting Sendmail
Fighting SPAM
Using Public SPAM Blacklists With Sendmail
Spamassassin
A Simple PERL Script To Help Stop SPAM
Configuring Your POP Mail Server
Installing Your POP Mail Server
Starting Your POP Mail Server
How To Configure Your Windows Mail Programs
Configuring Secure POP Mail
How to handle overlapping email addresses.
Troubleshooting POP Mail
Network Based Linux Installation
Setting Up The Installation Server
Creating Boot Diskettes
The Network Installation
Troubleshooting The Network Installation
Automating Installation With Redhat Kickstart
LVM
Expanding Linux Partitions With LVM
LVM Terminologies
Configuring LVM Devices
Managing Disk Usage With Quotas
Setting Up Quotas
Other Quota Topics
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