Essential System Administration Pocket Reference: Commands and File Formats (Paperback)

Introduction and Font Conventions

The root Account
Granting Limited root Powers

Essential Administrative Tools

Devices and Device Files
Special File Formats

File Ownership and Protection
Access Control Lists (ACLs)

System Messages and Log Files

Startup and Shutdown

User Accounts
Solaris Projects
User Account Management Commands
User Account Attributes
User Authentication and Login Controls
Password Selection and Aging

Process and Resource Management
The cron Facility
Managing Paging Space

Filesystems and Disks
Filesystem Configuration File
Filesystem-Related Commands
Adding a New Disk
Logical Volume Managers
Sharing Local Filesystems with NFS
Backups

Printing
The BSD and LPRng Spooling Subsystems
The System V Spooling Subsystem
AIX Spooling Subsystem

Serial Lines
Serial Line Configuration Files

Networking
Network Client Configuration
Network Servers
Networking Administrative Commands

Electronic Mail
sendmail
procmail and fetchmail

Security
System Hardening Checklist
Security Monitoring Commands

Kernel Configuration
Configuring Boot Loaders