Concise Linux//An Introduction To Linux Use And Administration Lxk1 En Manual

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Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
- What is Linux?
- Linux History
- Free Software, ``Open Source'' and the GPL
- Linux—The Kernel
- Linux Properties
- Linux Distributions
Using the Linux System
- Logging In and Out
- Switching On and Off
- The System Administrator
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Shell?
- Why?
  - What Is The Shell?
- Commands
Getting Help
- Self-Help
- The *help Command and the *–help Option
- The On-Line Manual
- Info Pages
- HOWTOs
- Further Information Sources
The vi Editor
- Editors
- The Standard—*vi
- Other Editors
Files: Care and Feeding
- File and Path Names
- Directory Commands
- File Search Patterns
- Handling Files
Standard I/O and Filter Commands
- I/O Redirection and Command Pipelines
- Filter Commands
- Reading and Writing Files
- Text Processing
  - Character by Character—*tr, *expand and *unexpand
  - Line by Line—*fmt, *pr and so on
- Data Management
  - Sorted Files—*sort and *uniq
  - Columns and Fields—*cut, *paste etc.
More About The Shell
- Simple Commands: *sleep, *echo, and *date
- Shell Variables and The Environment
- Command Types—Reloaded
- The Shell As A Convenient Tool
- Commands From A File
- The Shell As A Programming Language
  - Foreground and Background Processes
The File System
- Terms
- File Types
- The Linux Directory Tree
- Directory Tree and File Systems
- Removable Media
System Administration
- Introductory Remarks
- The Privileged root Account
- Obtaining Administrator Privileges
- Distribution-specific Administrative Tools
User Administration
- Basics
- User and Group Information
- Managing User Accounts and Group Information
Access Control
- The Linux Access Control System
- Access Control For Files And Directories
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Process Ownership
- Special Permissions for Executable Files
- Special Permissions for Directories
- File Attributes
Process Management
- What Is A Process?
- Process States
- Process Information—*ps
- Processes in a Tree—pstree
- Controlling Processes—*kill and *killall
- pgrep and pkill
- Process Priorities—*nice and *renice
- Further Process Management Commands—*nohup and *top
Hard Disks (and Other Secondary Storage)
- Fundamentals
- Bus Systems for Mass Storage
- Partitioning
- Linux and Mass Storage
- Partitioning Disks
- Loop Devices and kpartx
- The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
File Systems: Care and Feeding
- Creating a Linux File System
- Mounting File Systems
- The *dd Command
Booting Linux
- Fundamentals
- GRUB Legacy
- Kernel Parameters
- System Startup Problems
System-V Init and the Init Process
- The Init Process
- System-V Init
- Upstart
- Shutting Down the System
Systemd
- Overview
- Unit Files
- Unit Types
- Dependencies
- Targets
- The systemctl Command
- Installing Units
Time-controlled Actions—*cron and *at
- Introduction
- One-Time Execution of Commands
- Repeated Execution of Commands
System Logging
- The Problem
- The Syslog Daemon
- Log Files
- Kernel Logging
- Extended Possibilities: Rsyslog
- The ``next generation'': Syslog-NG
- The *logrotate Program
System Logging with Systemd and ``The Journal''
- Fundamentals
- Systemd and journald
- Log Inspection
TCP/IP Fundamentals
- History and Introduction
  - The History of the Internet
  - Internet Administration
- Technology
  - Overview
  - Protocols
- TCP/IP
- Addressing, Routing and Subnetting
- IPv6
  - IPv6 Addressing
Linux Network Configuration
- Network Interfaces
- Persistent Network Configuration
- DHCP
- IPv6 Configuration
- Name Resolution and DNS
Network Troubleshooting
- Introduction
- Local Problems
- Checking Connectivity With ping
- Checking Routing Using traceroute And tracepath
- Checking Services With netstat And nmap
- Testing DNS With host And dig
- Other Useful Tools For Diagnosis
The Secure Shell
- Introduction
- Logging Into Remote Hosts Using *ssh
- Other Useful Applications: *scp and *sftp
- Public-Key Client Authentication
- Port Forwarding Using SSH
  - X11 Forwarding
  - Forwarding Arbitrary TCP Ports
Software Package Management Using Debian Tools
- Overview
- The Basis: dpkg
- Debian Package Management: The Next Generation
- Debian Package Integrity
- The debconf Infrastructure
- alien: Software From Different Worlds
Package Management with RPM and YUM
- Introduction
- Package Management Using *rpm
- YUM
Sample Solutions
Example Files
LPIC-1 Certification
- Overview
- Exam LPI-101
- Exam LPI-102
- LPI Objectives In This Manual
Command Index
Index

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