Linux Server Hacks (Paperback)

How to Become a Hacker

Preface

Server Basics
1. Removing Unnecessary Services
2. Forgoing the Console Login
3. Common Boot Parameters
4. Creating a Persistent Daemon with init
5. n>&m: Swap Standard Output and Standard Error
6. Building Complex Command Lines
7. Working with Tricky Files in xargs
8. Immutable Files in ext2/ext3
9. Speeding Up Compiles
10. At Home in Your Shell Environment
11. Finding and Eliminating setuid/setgid Binaries
12. Make sudo Work Harder
13. Using a Makefile to Automate Admin Tasks
14. Brute Forcing Your New Domain Name
15. Playing Hunt the Disk Hog
16. Fun with /proc
17. Manipulating Processes Symbolically with procps
18. Managing System Resources per Process
19. Cleaning Up after Ex-Users
20. Eliminating Unnecessary Drivers from the Kernel
21. Using Large Amounts of RAM
22. hdparm: Fine Tune IDE Drive Parameters

Revision Control
23. Getting Started with RCS
24. Checking Out a Previous Revision in RCS
25. Tracking Changes with rcs2log
26. Getting Started with CVS
27. CVS: Checking Out a Module
28. CVS: Updating Your Working Copy
29. CVS: Using Tags
30. CVS: Making Changes to a Module
31. CVS: Merging Files
32. CVS: Adding and Removing Files and Directories
33. CVS: Branching Development
34. CVS: Watching and Locking Files
35. CVS: Keeping CVS Secure
36. CVS: Anonymous Repositories

Backups
37. Backing Up with tar over ssh
38. Using rsync over ssh
39. Archiving with Pax
40. Backing Up Your Boot Sector
41. Keeping Parts of Filesystems in sync with rsync
42. Automated Snapshot-Style Incremental Backups with rsync
43. Working with ISOs and CDR/CDRWs
44. Burning a CD Without Creating an ISO File

Networking
45. Creating a Firewall from the Command Line of any Server
46. Simple IP Masquerading
47. iptables Tips & Tricks
48. Forwarding TCP Ports to Arbitrary Machines
49. Using Custom Chains in iptables
50. Tunneling: IPIP Encapsulation
51. Tunneling: GRE Encapsulation
52. Using vtun over ssh to Circumvent NAT
53. Automatic vtund.conf Generator

Monitoring
54. Steering syslog
55. Watching Jobs with watch
56. What's Holding That Port Open?
57. Checking On Open Files and Sockets with lsof
58. Monitor System Resources with top
59. Constant Load Average Display in the Titlebar
60. Network Monitoring with ngrep
61. Scanning Your Own Machines with nmap
62. Disk Age Analysis
63. Cheap IP Takeover
64. Running ntop for Real-Time Network Stats
65. Monitoring Web Traffic in Real Time with httptop

SSH
66. Quick Logins with ssh Client Keys
67. Turbo-mode ssh Logins
68. Using ssh-Agent Effectively
69. Running the ssh-Agent in a GUI
70. X over ssh
71. Forwarding Ports over ssh

Scripting
72. Get Settled in Quickly with movein.sh
73. Global Search and Replace with Perl
74. Mincing Your Data into Arbitrary Chunks (in bash)
75. Colorized Log Analysis in Your Terminal

Information Servers
76. Running BIND in a chroot Jail
77. Views in BIND 9
78. Setting Up Caching DNS with Authority for Local Domains
79. Distributing Server Load with Round-Robin DNS
80. Running Your Own Top-Level Domain
81. Monitoring MySQL Health with mtop
82. Setting Up Replication in MySQL
83. Restoring a Single Table from a Large MySQL Dump
84. MySQL Server Tuning
85. Using proftpd with a mysql Authentication Source
86. Optimizing glibc, linuxthreads, and the Kernel for a Super MySQL Server
87. Apache Toolbox
88. Display the Full Filename in Indexes
89. Quick Configuration Changes with IfDefine
90. Simplistic Ad Referral Tracking
91. Mimicking FTP Servers with Apache
92. Rotate and compress Apache Server Logs
93. Generating an SSL cert and Certificate Signing Request
94. Creating Your Own CA
95. Distributing Your CA to Client Browsers
96. Serving multiple sites with the same DocumentRoot
97. Delivering Content Based on the Query String Using mod_rewrite
98. Using mod_proxy on Apache for Speed
99. Distributing Load with Apache RewriteMap
100. Ultrahosting: Mass Web Site Hosting with Wildcards, Proxy, and Rewrite