This book is a clear, detailed and practical guide to learn about designing and deploying you puppet architecture, with informative examples to highlight and explain concepts in a focused manner. This book is designed for users who already have good experience with Puppet, and will surprise experienced users with innovative topics that explore how to design, implement, adapt, and deploy a Puppet architecture. The key to extending Puppet is the development of types and providers, for which you mu...
You've asked for it; now it's here: the Second Edition of The UNIX CD Bookshelf, containing updated books from O'Reilly plus the software from UNIX Power Tools -- all on a convenient CD-ROM. A bonus hardcopy book, UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, is also included.Included on the CD-ROM are UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition; UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition (with software); Learning the UNIX Operating System, 4th Editions; Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition; sed & awk, 2nd Edition; and Learning...
Unix for the Impatient, CD-ROM Version
by Paul W Abrahams and Bruce R. Larson
"IF YOU ARE THINKING about using UNIX, you must have this book." The popular handbook -- now with a hypertext version for the Hyper-Impatient UNIX for the Impatient is is an in-depth, comprehensive guide to UNIX -- a handbook you can use both for learning and as a ready reference. Clear, concise, and readable, the book is written for the technically oriented UNIX user who doesn't want to wade through verbose tutorials but isn't already an expert. Its functional organization makes it easy to fin...
Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours, Complete Learning Edition
by Warren Gay
Linux is quickly becoming the operating system of the future. With easily downloaded information from the Internet, relentless programmers coming up with newer versions with greater potential, and the practically cost-free reality of Linux, learning to program it has become a necessity for serious operating system administrators and systems developers. With Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours, Complete Learning Edition, you will have the perfect starter kit to get up and running wi...
Linux as a Business OS is a step-by-step, focused tutorial on installing and reliably maintaining a comprehensive Internet solution, including a corporate mail server, Web Server and more on a shoestring budget. Topics include: Set up and Installation, Connecting to the Internet, Basic services-mail and news, Setting up a Web server, Security, Advanced networking, Managing the system--accounts, logs, backups, configuring workstations, and Troubleshooting.
With the advent of the new 2.4-series kernels, a new XFree86 architecture and distribution, and advances soon slated to hit the KDE and GNOME markets, the time is ripe to craft the definitive and classic intermediate to advanced work covering Red Hat Linux. Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed does not incorporate any previous material. All chapters concentrate on Red Hat Linux software and tools, and more specifically those software packages included with Red Hat Linux. There is new topic coverage in ar...
A System V Guide to UNIX and XENIX takes the novice reader through the features of the UNIX system step-by-step without jargon and assumptions about the reader's technical knowledge found in similar books. With its clear explanations, numerous examles, and straightforward organization, this book appeals to many non-technical people just beginning to work with UNIX, as well as engineers and programmers with prior experience. Anyone who reads this book will learn how to use the features of UNIX, a...
SuSE Linux Unleashed
by William Ball, Frank Hum, Daniel Robbins, Richard Morgan, and Dierdre Sciorses
SuSE Linux Unleashed shows you how to install, configure, and manage the latest version of SuSE Linux. This book provides the information you want and need and can otherwise only be found by hunting through multiple documents on the internet. The most important topics to the intermediate/advanced user are covered on installation and management of SuSE systems, and wisdom and insights on how to control some of the more difficult to use aspects of SuSE, like integrating SuSE into Microsoft network...
Slackware Linux Unleashed
by Tina Nguyen, Bao Ha, Carl Constantine, Pat St. Jean, Martin Wheeler, Daniel Solin, Byron Alley, and Ralph Meyer
SlackWare Linux 4 Unleashed shows you how to install, configure, and manage the latest version of SlackWare Linux. The book provides expert advice on installation and configuration, programming, administration and networking. It also provides wisdom and insights on how to control some of the more difficult-to-use aspects of SlackWare, like integrating SlackWare into Microsoft networks. Everything you need to know to use Slackware to set up an Internet site is covered. SlackWare Linux 4 Unleashed...
Usenix UNIX Security Symposium
Linux is being adopted by an increasing number of embedded systems developers, who have been won over by its sophisticated scheduling and networking, its cost-free license, its open development model, and the support offered by rich and powerful programming tools. While there is a great deal of hype surrounding the use of Linux in embedded systems, there is not a lot of practical information. "Building Embedded Linux Systems" is a guide to putting together an embedded system based on the Linux k...
Instant Optimizing Embedded Systems Using Busybox
by Wu Zhangjin and Cao Ziqiang
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A step-by-step guide which provides concise and clear recipes for getting started with Busybox.If you are an embedded system developer or Android developer who wishes to learn to build an embedded (Android Linux) system from scratch, as well as to optimize the system performance, then this book will be great for you. It's assumed that you have some experience in Linux and UNIX utiliti...
Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two (Hacks)
by William von Hagen and Brian K Jones
Text processing and pattern matching simplifiedKey Features-Master the fastest and most elegant big data munging language-Implement text processing and pattern matching using the advanced features of AWK and GAWK-Implement debugging and inter-process communication using GAWKBook DescriptionAWK is one of the most primitive and powerful utilities which exists in all Unix and Unix-like distributions. It is used as a command-line utility when performing a basic text-processing operation, and as prog...
Unix System Administration: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guide)
by Steve Maxwell
Learn to administer UNIX from both a network and single system perspective with help from this introductory resource. You'll get clear advice on everything from installation and configuration to setting up important services such as Web Server, FTP, SNMP, DNS, as well as other key functions. You'll also find specific information for the Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX platforms.
There currently no books on the market that offer to teach FreeBSD to a novice. This book will be very attractive to the rushed and impatient, as well as to those who simply have a desire to learn the benefits of FreeBSD when compared to other proprietary operating systems. The book covers the most beneficial uses of FreeBSD, as well as the information needed to install and configure the operating system. This book will be the definitive tutorial reference for the growing FreeBSD market.
This book describes, in detail, the benefits of using the AFS distributed file system in large and small organizations. By relieving administrators of inefficiencies of scale and allowing users to retrive files effectively from anywhere in their organization. This book demonstrates the power of using an integrated, fully functional, and centrally managed system to provide a ubiquitous and reliable data storage system. This book explains how to manage AFS to its greatest effect incuding the insta...