Linux in a Nutshell - Brossura

Weber, Aaron; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0596009305 ISBN 13: 9780596009304

Casa editrice: Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2005

Riassunto

Over the last few years, Linux has grown both as an operating system and a tool for personal and business use. Simultaneously becoming more user friendly and more powerful as a back-end system, Linux has achieved new plateaus: the newer filesystems have solidified, new commands and tools have appeared and become standard, and the desktop--including new desktop environments--have proved to be viable, stable, and readily accessible to even those who don't consider themselves computer gurus.

Whether you're using Linux for personal software projects, for a small office or home office (often termed the SOHO environment), to provide services to a small group of colleagues, or to administer a site responsible for millions of email and web connections each day, you need quick access to information on a wide range of tools. This book covers all aspects of administering and making effective use of Linux systems. Among its topics are booting, package management, and revision control. But foremost in Linux in a Nutshell are the utilities and commands that make Linux one of the most powerful and flexible systems available.

Now in its fifth edition, Linux in a Nutshell brings users up-to-date with the current state of Linux. Considered by many to be the most complete and authoritative command reference for Linux available, the book covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions.

Comprehensive but concise, the fifth edition has been updated to cover new features of major Linux distributions. Configuration information for the rapidly growing commercial network services and community update services is one of the subjects covered for the first time.

But that's just the beginning. The book covers editors, shells, and LILO and GRUB boot options. There's also coverage of Apache, Samba, Postfix, sendmail, CVS, Subversion, Emacs, vi, sed, gawk, and much more. Everything that system administrators, developers, and power users need to know about Linux is referenced here, and they will turn to this book again and again.

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L'autore

Ellen Siever is a writer and editor specializing in Linux and other open source topics. In addition to Linux in a Nutshell, she co-authored O'Reilly's Perl in a Nutshell. She is a long-time Linux and Unix user, and was a programmer for many years until she decided that writing about computers was more fun.

Aaron Weber is a technical writer for Novell, Inc. who wrote the section on GNOME in O'Reilly's Running Linux. He's also published in Interex Enterprise Solutions (interex.com) and Boston's Weekly Dig (www.weeklydig.com), and is the host of secretlyironic.com.

Stephen Figgins administrates Linux servers for Sunflower Broadband in Lawrence, KS. He also writes, edits and consults on computing topics. He balances this with his study of nature. Through the Plainscraft school of living (http://www.plainscraft.com), he teaches wilderness awareness and survival skills including animal tracking, edible and medicinal plants and matchless fire making.

Robert Love is a contributing editor at Linux Journal and authored Linux Kernel Development (Sams). He works in Novell's Ximian Desktop Group as a kernel hacker and graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Arnold Robbins is a professional programmer and technical author who has worked with Unix systems since 1980. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for awk and is currently the maintainer of gawk (GNU project's version of awk) and its documentation. Arnold co-authored of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor.

Contenuti

Preface; Organization of This Book; Other Resources; Using Code Examples; Conventions; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Excitement of Linux; 1.2 Distribution and Support; 1.3 Commands on Linux; 1.4 What This Book Offers; 1.5 Sources and Licenses; 1.6 Beginner's Guide; Chapter 2: System and Network Administration Overview; 2.1 Common Commands; 2.2 Overview of Networking; 2.3 Overview of TCP/IP; 2.4 Overview of Firewalls and Masquerading; 2.5 Overview of NFS; 2.6 Overview of NIS; 2.7 Administering NIS; 2.8 RPC and XDR; Chapter 3: Linux Commands; 3.1 Alphabetical Summary of Commands; Chapter 4: Boot Methods; 4.1 The Boot Process; 4.2 LILO: The Linux Loader; 4.3 GRUB: The Grand Unified Bootloader; 4.4 GRUB Commands; 4.5 Dual-Booting Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP; 4.6 Boot-Time Kernel Options; 4.7 initrd: Using a RAM Disk; Chapter 5: Package Management; 5.1 The Red Hat Package Manager; 5.2 Yum: Yellowdog Updater Modified; 5.3 up2date: Red Hat Update Agent; 5.4 The Debian Package Manager; Chapter 6: The Bash Shell and Korn Shell; 6.1 Overview of Features; 6.2 Invoking the Shell; 6.3 Syntax; 6.4 Functions; 6.5 Variables; 6.6 Arithmetic Expressions; 6.7 Command History; 6.8 Job Control; 6.9 Command Execution; 6.10 Restricted Shells; 6.11 Built-in Commands (Bash and Korn Shells); Chapter 7: Pattern Matching; 7.1 Filenames Versus Patterns; 7.2 Metacharacters; 7.3 Metacharacters, Listed by Program; 7.4 Examples of Searching; Chapter 8: The Emacs Editor; 8.1 Conceptual Overview; 8.2 Command-Line Syntax; 8.3 Summary of Commands by Group; 8.4 Summary of Commands by Key; 8.5 Summary of Commands by Name; Chapter 9: The vi, ex, and vim Editors; 9.1 Conceptual Overview; 9.2 Command-Line Syntax; 9.3 Review of vi Operations; 9.4 vi Commands; 9.5 vi Configuration; 9.6 ex Basics; 9.7 Alphabetical Summary of ex Commands; Chapter 10: The sed Editor; 10.1 Conceptual Overview; 10.2 Command-Line Syntax; 10.3 Syntax of sed Commands; 10.4 Group Summary of sed Commands; 10.5 Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands; Chapter 11: The gawk Programming Language; 11.1 Conceptual Overview; 11.2 Command-Line Syntax; 11.3 Patterns and Procedures; 11.4 Built-in Variables; 11.5 Operators; 11.6 Variable and Array Assignment; 11.7 User-Defined Functions; 11.8 Gawk-specific Features; 11.9 Implementation Limits; 11.10 Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands; 11.11 Alphabetical Summary of awk Functions and Commands; 11.13 Source Code; Chapter 12: Source Code Management: An Overview; 12.1 Introduction and Terminology; 12.2 Usage Models; 12.3 Source Code Management Systems; 12.4 Other Source Code Management Systems; Chapter 13: The Concurrent Versions System (CVS); 13.1 Conceptual Overview; 13.2 Command-Line Syntax and Options; 13.3 Dot Files; 13.4 Environment Variables; 13.5 Keywords and Keyword Modes; 13.6 Dates; 13.7 CVSROOT Variables; 13.8 Alphabetical Summary of Commands; Chapter 14: The Subversion Version Control System; 14.1 Conceptual Overview; 14.2 Obtaining Subversion; 14.3 Using Subversion: A Quick Tour; 14.4 The Subversion Command Line Client: svn; 14.5 Repository Administration: svnadmin; 14.6 Examining the Repository: svnlook; 14.7 Providing Remote Access: svnserve; 14.8 Other Subversion Components; Colophon;

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oreilly & Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0596009305
• ISBN 13: 9780596009304
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 925
• Redattore: Siever Ellen