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4.2. System Administration and Configuration

Topics covered in this section include:

Section 4.2.1 Configuration
Section 4.2.2 Benchmarking
Section 4.2.3 Clustering
Section 4.2.4 Backup
Section 4.2.5 Recovery
Section 4.2.6 Security

4.2.1. Configuration

  • Battery-Powered, Battery Powered Linux Mini-HOWTO

    Updated: December 1997. How to reduce a Linux system's power consumption by tweaking some of its configuration settings.

  • Bootdisk-HOWTO, The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO

    Updated: May 2001. How to design and build your own boot/root diskettes for Linux.

  • BootPrompt-HOWTO, The Linux BootPrompt HOWTO

    Updated: May 1999. A compilation of all the possible boot time arguments that can be passed to the Linux kernel at boot time. Includes all kernel and device parameters.

  • Config-HOWTO, Configuration HOWTO

    Updated: August 2000. Aims at making the fine-tuning of your newly installed Linux box quicker and easier. You will find a set of configurations for the most common applications and services.

  • Filesystems-HOWTO, Filesystems HOWTO

    Updated: August 2000. About filesystems and accessing filesystems.

  • HP-HOWTO, HP HOWTO - Utilisation and Configuration Guide of HP Products under Linux

    Updated: March 2001. Describes the use of products available in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) catalog with Linux and some free software.

  • Installation-HOWTO, The Linux Installation HOWTO

    Updated: February 2001. How to obtain and install Linux software. It is the first document which a new Linux user should read to get started.

  • Kernel-HOWTO, The Linux Kernel HOWTO

    Updated: May 2001. A detailed guide to kernel configuration, compilation, upgrades, and troubleshooting for ix86-based systems.

  • KickStart-HOWTO, RedHat Linux KickStart HOWTO

    Updated: January 1999. Briefly describes how to use the RedHat Linux KickStart system to rapidly install large numbers of identical Linux boxes.

  • MultiOS-HOWTO, Managing Multiple Operating Systems HOWTO

    Updated: February 2000. Covers the procedures for using removable hard disks to install and manage multiple alternative operating systems while leaving a single fixed disk to permanently house and protect the primary operating system.

  • Path, PATH HOWTO

    Updated: November 1997. Describes common tricks and problems with Unix / Linux environment variables, especially with PATH variable.

  • Public-Web-Browser, Linux web browser station

    Updated: October 2000. Describes the setup of Internet kiosk-type system based on Linux to be deployed to provide public Internet/webmail access.

  • Quota, Quota mini-HOWTO

    Updated: August 1997. How to enable file system quota on a Linux host, assigning quota for users and groups, as well as the usage of miscellaneous quota commands.

  • Visual-Bell, Visible bell mini-Howto

    Updated: November 1997. How to use termcap to configure a visual bell on one's system and describes how to disable audible bells on demand.

4.2.2. Benchmarking

  • Benchmarking-HOWTO, Linux Benchmarking HOWTO

    Updated: August 1997. Discusses some issues associated with the benchmarking of Linux systems and presents a basic benchmarking toolkit.

4.2.3. Clustering

  • Beowulf-HOWTO, Beowulf HOWTO

    Updated: November 1998. Introduces the Beowulf Supercomputer architecture and provides background information on parallel programming, including links to other more specific documents.

4.2.4. Backup

  • ADSM-Backup, Linux ADSM mini-HOWTO

    Updated: January 1997. How to install and use a client for the commercial ADSM backup system for Linux/i386.

  • Backup-With-MSDOS, Backup-With-MSDOS mini-HOWTO

    Updated: August 1997. How to use a Linux-compatible tape drive installed on an MS-DOS machine to back up the filesystem of a Linux machine.

4.2.5. Recovery

  • Ext2fs-Undeletion, Linux Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO

    Updated: February 1999. Presents a discussion of how to retrieve deleted files from a Second Extended File System.

  • Ext2fs-Undeletion-Dir-Struct, Ext2fs Undeletion of Directory Structures

    Updated: November 2000. Describes a straight forward way of recovering whole directory structures, instead of file by file, that have been removed by a misplaced rm -rf

  • LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO, LILO, Linux Crash Rescue HOWTO

    Updated: May 2001. Discusses methods to recover from Linux system failures.

4.2.6. Security

  • Bridge+Firewall, Linux Bridge+Firewall Mini-HOWTO

    Updated: December 1997. A bridge is an intelligent connection wire between two network cards. A firewall is an intelligent insulator.

  • Bridge+Firewall+DSL, Bridge + Firewall + DSL Mini-HOWTO

    Updated: November 2000. Configuring a Linux system to act as a firewall and bridge with a DSL network connection.

  • Domain, Setting Up Your New Domain Mini HOWTO

    Updated: October 2000. Outlines the things you will probably have to do when you want to setup a network of computers under your own domain. Covers configuration of network parameters, network services, and security settings.

  • Firewall-HOWTO, Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO

    Updated: February 2000. Designed to describe the basics of firewall systems and give you some detail on setting up both a filtering and proxy firewall on a Linux based system.

  • Firewall-Piercing, Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO

    Updated: April 2001. Directions for using ppp over telnet to do network activities transparently through an Internet firewall.

  • Secure-POP+SSH, Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO

    Updated: September 1998. How to set up secure POP connections using ssh.

  • Security-HOWTO, Linux Security HOWTO

    Updated: March 2000. A general overview of security issues that face the administrator of Linux systems.

  • Shadow-Password-HOWTO, Linux Shadow Password HOWTO

    Updated: April 1996. How to obtain, install, and configure the Linux password Shadow Suite.

  • Term-Firewall, Using Term to Pierce an Internet Firewall

    Updated: July 1996. Directions for using ``term'' to do network stuff through a TCP firewall that you're not supposed to be able to.

  • User-Authentication-HOWTO, User Authentication HOWTO

    Updated: May 2000. Explains how user and group information is stored and how users are authenticated on a Linux system (PAM), and how to secure you system's user authentication.