Linux Cookbook: Essential Skills for Linux Users and System & Network Administrators

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This cookbook is a practical guide that aims to teach new-to-intermediate Linux users the fundamental skills necessary to manage a Linux system, using both graphical and command-line tools. Whether you are working with Linux in embedded, desktop, server, or cloud or virtual environments, the basic skills remain the same. The book provides copy-paste examples and recipes that cover specific problems, with discussions that explain how each recipe works and references to additional resources for further study.

Some of the essential skills that you will learn from this book are:

• Using systemd, the comprehensive service manager
• Building simple or complex firewalls with firewalld
• Setting up secure network connections for Linux systems and mobile devices
• Rescuing non-booting systems
• Resetting lost passwords on Linux and Windows
• Using dnsmasq to simplify managing your LAN name services
• Managing users and groups and controlling access to files
• Probing your computer hardware and monitoring hardware health
• Managing the GRUB bootloader and multiboot Linux and Windows
• Keeping accurate time across your network with the latest tools
• Building an internet router/firewall on Raspberry Pi
• Managing filesystems and partitioning

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Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd edition (September 21, 2021)
Language: English
Paperback: 542 pages
ISBN-10: 1492087165
ISBN-13: 978-1492087168
Item Weight: 1.89 pounds
Dimensions: 6.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches