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CentOS System Administration Essentials

Become an efficient CentOS administrator by acquiring real-world knowledge of system setup and configuration

Paid access
|Nov 2014

Key Features

    Book Description

    What you will learn

    • Conquer the command line using shortcuts in the shell and within the editor Vim
    • Analyze the booting of CentOS utilizing MBR, GRUB, and Plymouth
    • Gain an understanding of the filesystem structure of hard links, inodes, and data using stat and ls
    • Manage your software installations with YUM
    • Handle your services as they begin to migrate from System V scripts
    • Establish centralized account information using openLDAP directory services
    • Centralize the configuration management of CentOS using Puppet, enabling updates from Puppet Master to be distributed to the clients

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Taming the text editor that is Vi
    2. Cold starts
    3. CentOS File Systems : A Deeper Look
    4. YUM : This software look great
    5. Herding cats: or taking control of your services andprocesses
    6. Do you really want to let users loose on your system :really?
    7. openLDAP: A better type a user
    8. Deploying a scalable and performance centric webserver with NGINX
    9. Now you are to be the Puppet Master
    10. Security Central
    11. Graduation day
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-593-7
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2014
    Language: English
    Pages: 174
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