CentOS Server Management Manual

CentOS Server Management covers over 500 pages of server management training with 60 Labs. Introduction
Historical Development of Linux, Researching Distributions. The Choice of an Enterprise Server , Finding Help, Tasks of a Linux Administrator
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The Boot Process
Includes the boot process, GRUB, Init Process, Startup Scripts, Daemons, rc. d Directory
Managing Services
How to turn services off that you are not using. How to manage the services you need for best security. Process Management
Managing Processes, Nice, Creation of Process, Signals, How to Kill Processes, Process States, ps, top, /proc File System, Tracing System Calls, Dealing with Wild Processes
Managing the File System
Pathnames, Mounting/ Unmounting File Systems, A Linux Standard, File Types, File Permissions
Managing Users
Create users, Change User Information, /etc/ shadow, /etc/ group, Files When a User is Created, Passwords, Password Control, Check Password, Creating Access Control Lists, Monitoring User Activity with psacct
Managing Quotas
quota Commands, Start Quotas, Setup User Quotas, Setup group Quotas, Create Profiles, Turn Quotas Off, Maintain Quotas
Managing System Logs
Create a New Log, Special Log Files, View System Logs, Log Watch, Create a New alias, Create Remote Logs, View Remote Files, Altered Log Files, Security Steps for Logs, Modify Log Output, Add Program Logs
Managing Hard Drives
Sata Drives, SCSI, Drive Geometry, Partitions, Swap Space, Formatting Floppy Drives, Using fdisk to Create Partitions, Listing Partitions With fdisk, View Partitions, Delete Partitions, New Partition Created, File System Formats, Mounting Drives, Enhancing Hard Drive performance, fstab, Add an Additional Device, LVM Logical Volume Manager, Physical Volumes Create a LVM, Rename Logical Volume, Remove a Logical Volume, RAID, Creating RAID 0, 1, and 5
Managing Backups
Backup Media, Using tar, Search the Contents of a tar File, Simple tar Script, Using dd to Clone Drives
Managing Automated Actions
Using at, Using cron
Managing Updates
yum Log, yum Repositories, Updating, Install New Programs, Remove Programs
Basic Networking
LAN - Local Area Network, WAN - Wide Area Network, OSI Layers, Ethernet Media, Network Design, Network Relationship, Using Network Commands, Important Network Files, Ping Webmin: Remote Access
Webmin Security, Webmin Options
VNC Remote Access
Create Users, Start the Server, Set VNC Server to be On at Boot, Client Login
SSH Secure Remote Access
SSH Files and Locations, SSH Basics, Generate a Key Pair, Preventing Man in the Middle, Authentication, Known Hosts, Fingerprints, Making Connections, Initializing a Connection to a Server, Transfer Files Using scp, Using sftp for Secure File Transfer, Remote X Window With SSH, Change Port Number on Client, Connect With Keys Only
Kernel Development
How to Configure the Kernel, Tune Kernel Parameters, Load Drivers and Modules into an Existing Kernel on the Fly, Build a New Kernel
X Window System
X Window Components, X Display Manager, X Applications, Client Authentication, X Server Configuration
Server Security
Layered Security, Reducing Spam and Attack by Limiting IP Addresses, Securing Services, Managing Services, Manage xinetd, tcp_wrappers, Securing The Firewall, Port Scan Attack Detector Security Assessment, Securing the Network Connections, Network Monitoring, Wireshark, Rootkit Hunter, AIDE