Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security
by Bruce Potter, Yanek Korff, and Brian (Paco) Hope
FreeBSD and OpenBSD are increasingly gaining traction in educational institutions, non-profits, and corporations worldwide because they provide significant security advantages over Linux. Although a lot can be said for the robustness, clean organization, and stability of the BSD operating systems, security is one of the main reasons system administrators use these two platforms. There are plenty of books to help you get a FreeBSD or OpenBSD system off the ground, and all of them touch on securit...
Python is growing in popularity; based on download statistics, there are now over 450,000 people using Python, and more than 150,000 people using Python on Windows. Use of the language has been growing at about 40% per year since 1995, and there is every reason to believe that growth will continue. Despite Python's increasing popularity on Windows, Python Programming on Win32 is the first book to demonstrate how to use it as a serious Windows development and administration tool. Unlike sc...
Advanced UNIX Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing)
by Marc J. Rochkind
The changes to UNIX programming that have taken place since 1985 are extensive to say the least. The first edition of Advanced UNIX Programming is still used and considered to be a must have book on any UNIX programmer's shelf. With this new edition UNIX programmers now have a one-volume, comprehensive, in-depth guide to the essential system-level services provided to them by the UNIX family of operating systems - now including Linux, FreeBSD, and the Mac OS X kernel (Darwin). All UNIX applicati...
Your one-stop resource to learn, configure and use Ubuntu 22.04 for your day-to-day operations and deployments. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format. Key Features Get well-versed with newly added features in Ubuntu 22.04 Master the art of installing, managing, and troubleshooting Ubuntu Server Leverage the improved performance and security-related aspects of Ubuntu Server 22.04 Book DescriptionUbuntu Server is taking the server world by storm - and for a g...
PANIC! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis Handbook (Bk/CD-ROM)
by Chris Drake and Kimberley A.D. Brown
For systems and network administrators and technical support engineers responsible for maintaining UNIX computer systems and networks. A first aid guide for UNIX system and network administrators, this book provides quick solutions to a variety of UNIX system problems. It discusses in detail UNIX system panics, crashes and hangs, their causes, what to do when they occur, how to collect information about them, how to analyze that information, and how to get the problem resolved.
Programming with UNIX System Calls and Libraries(SVR4.2 MP)
by The UNIX System Group
Device Driver Programming for Intel Processors (UNIX SVR4.2 MP)
by The UNIX System Group
Automating Solaris Installations
by Paul Anthony Kasper, Alan McClellan, and Sun Microsystems Press
Automating Solaris Installations describes how to set up "hands- off" Solaris installations for hundreds of SPARC or x86 systems. It explains in detail how to configure your site so that when you install the Solaris environment, you simply boot a system and walk away—the software installs automatically! Site configuration involves three key features of Solaris: network booting, automatic system configuration, and the custom JumpStart (auto-install) technology. Using these features to automate So...
Covering releases 3.2.5 and 4.1, this book provides information on theconcepts, tools, and techniques for assessing and tuning the performance of AIX on IBM's RISC System/6000.
Programming in C for Unix (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers and Their Applications)
by Claus Schirmer
The leading book in its field, this guide focuses on the design, development and coding of network software under the UNIX operating system. Provides over 15,000 lines of C code with descriptions of how and why a given solution is achieved. For programmers seeking an indepth tutorial on sockets, transport level interface (TLI), interprocess communications (IPC) facilities under System V and BSD UNIX.
Covers the organization of system control structures, paged memory management, the UNIX file system, interprocess communications techniques, and networking features.
Solaris and LDAP Naming Services is a practical guide to implementing Solaris 8 native LDAP on clients and servers. Basic LDAP concepts are covered, as well as naming and authentication architectural details. This BluePrint outlines strategies for consolidating legacy directory services using LDAP technology.
This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding how the various components of the NFS product family work together on HP-UX systems and how to configure each of them for optimal performance. Networked File System (NFS) has been the industry standard protocol for remote file access on the Unix operating system platform for many years. It has become a critical component to every flavor of Unix, as well as non-Unix based operating systems. Currently, there is very little information available t...
This new and fully updated edition provides the practical course text to the Operating Systems required by the majority of degree and HND courses in Computing. It uses as a basis the familiar operating systems of UNIX, MSDOS and Windows. Colin Ritchie provides a clear introduction of all the terminology and concepts involved, and enables the reader to gain a thorough knowledge of the subject by blending technical discussion with real-practice issues, supported by practical exercises.
This book is a practical guide to performance optimization of computationally intensive programs on Sun UltraSPARC platforms. It is primarily intended for developers of technical or high performance computing (HPC) applications for the Solaris(tm) operating environment. This audience includes both independent software vendor (ISV) developers and noncommercial developers. It can also be used by end-users of HPC applications to help them better understand how applications utilize system resources....
Learn Linux, and take your career to the next level! Linux Essentials, 2nd Edition provides a solid foundation of knowledge for anyone considering a career in information technology, for anyone new to the Linux operating system, and for anyone who is preparing to sit for the Linux Essentials Exam. Through this engaging resource, you can access key information in a learning-by-doing style. Hands-on tutorials and end-of-chapter exercises and review questions lead you in both learning and applying...
This title introduces the fundamentals of the Unix operating system to the PC user. Unix is "the operating system of the Internet" and is gaining attention from PC users because if its rapid growth. This book utilizes hand-on projects and step-by-step instructions to provide the user with a firm understanding of Unix using Linux as the teaching vehicle.
Drive Even More Value from Virtualization: Write VMware (R) Applications that Automate Virtual Infrastructure Management Companies running VMware have already achieved enormous gains through virtualization. The next wave of benefits will come when they reduce the time and effort required to run and manage VMware platforms. The VMware Infrastructure Software Development Kit (VI SDK) includes application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow developers and administrators to do just that....