Linux Cookbook Essential Skills for Linux Users and System and Network Administrators 2nd Edition by Carla Schroder ISBN 9781492087168 1492087165

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ISBN 10: 1492087165
ISBN 13: 9781492087168
Author: Carla Schroder

Linux Cookbook Essential Skills for Linux Users and System and Network Administrators 2nd Edition Table of contents:

1. Installing Linux

Booting from Installation Media

Where to Download Linux

Best Linux for Newbies

1.1. Entering your System BIOS/UEFI Setup

1.2. Downloading a Linux Installation Image

1.3. Creating a Linux Installation USB Stick with UNetbootin

1.4. Creating a Linux Installation DVD with K3b

1.5. Using the wodim Command to Create a Bootable CD/DVD

1.6. Creating a Linux Installation USB Stick with the dd Command

1.7. Trying a Simple Ubuntu Installation

1.8. Customizing Partitioning

1.9. Preserving Existing Partitions

1.10. Customizing Package Selection

1.11. Multibooting Linux Distributions

1.12. Dual-boot with Microsoft Windows

1.13. Recovering an OEM Windows 8 or 10 Product Key

1.14. Mounting Your ISO Image on Linux

2. Managing the GRUB Bootloader

2.1. Rebuilding Your GRUB Configuration File

2.2. Unhiding a Hidden GRUB Menu

2.3. Booting to a Different Linux Kernel

2.4. Understanding GRUB Configuration Files

2.5. Writing a Minimal GRUB Configuration File

2.6. Setting a Custom Background for Your GRUB Menu

2.7. Changing Font Colors in the GRUB Menu

2.8. Applying a Theme to Your GRUB Menu

2.9. Rescuing a Nonbooting System from the grub> Prompt

2.10. Rescuing a Nonbooting System from the grub rescue> Prompt

2.11. Reinstalling Your GRUB Configuration

3. Starting, Stopping, Restarting, and Putting Linux into Sleep Modes

3.1. Shutting Down with systemctl

3.2. Shutting Down, Timed Shutdowns, and Rebooting with the shutdown Command

3.3. Shutting Down and Rebooting with halt, reboot, and poweroff

3.4. Sending Your System into Sleep Modes with systemctl

3.5. Rebooting Out of Trouble with Ctrl-Alt-Delete

3.6. Disabling, Enabling, and Configuring Ctrl-Alt-Delete in the Linux Console

3.7. Creating Scheduled Shutdowns with cron

3.8. Scheduling Automated Startups with UEFI Wake-Ups

3.9. Scheduling Automated Startups with RTC Wake-ups

3.10. Setting Up Remote Wake-Ups with Wake-on-LAN over Wired Ethernet

3.11. Setting Up Remote Wake-Ups over WiFi (WoWLAN)

4. Managing Services with systemd

4.1. Learning if Your Linux Uses systemd

4.2. Understanding PID 1, the Mother of All Processes

4.3. Listing Services and Their States with systemctl

4.4. Querying the Status of Selected Services

4.5. Starting and Stopping Services

4.6. Enabling and Disabling Services

4.7. Stopping Troublesome Processes

4.8. Managing Runlevels with systemd

4.9. Diagnosing Slow Startups

5. Managing Users and Groups

5.1. Finding a User’s UID and GID

5.2. Creating a Human User with useradd

5.3. Creating a System User with useradd

5.4. Changing the useradd Default Settings

5.5. Customizing the Documents, Music, Video, Pictures, and Downloads Directories

5.6. Creating User and System Groups with groupadd

5.7. Adding Users to Groups with usermod

5.8. Creating Users with adduser on Ubuntu

5.9. Creating a System User with adduser on Ubuntu

5.10. Creating User and System Groups with addgroup

5.11. Checking Password File Integrity

5.12. Disabling a User Account

5.13. Deleting a User with userdel

5.14. Deleting a User with deluser on Ubuntu

5.15. Removing a Group with delgroup on Ubuntu

5.16. Finding and Managing All Files for a User

5.17. Using su to Be Root

5.18. Granting Limited Root Powers with sudo

5.19. Extending the sudo Password Timeout

5.20. Creating Individual sudoers Configurations

5.21. Managing the Root User’s Password

5.22. Changing sudo to Not Ask for the Root Password

6. Managing Files and Directories

6.1. Creating Files and Directories

6.2. Quickly Creating a Batch of Files for Testing

6.3. Working with Relative and Absolute Filepaths

6.4. Deleting Files and Directories

6.5. Copying, Moving, and Renaming Files and Directories

6.6. Setting File Permissions with chmod’s Octal Notation

6.7. Setting Directory Permissions with chmod’s Octal Notation

6.8. Using the Special Modes for Special Use Cases

6.9. Removing the Special Modes in Octal Notation

6.10. Setting File Permissions with chmod’s Symbolic Notation

6.11. Setting the Special Modes with chmod’s Symbolic Notation

6.12. Setting Permissions in Batches with chmod

6.13. Setting File and Directory Ownership with chown

6.14. Changing Ownership on Batches of Files with chown

6.15. Setting Default Permissions with umask

6.16. Creating Shortcuts (Soft and Hard Links) to Files and Directories

6.17. Hiding Files and Directories

7. Backup and Recovery with rsync and cp

7.1. Selecting Which Files to Back Up

7.2. Selecting Files to Restore from Backups

7.3. Using the Simplest Local Backup Method

7.4. Automating Simple Local Backups

7.5. Using rsync for Local Backups

7.6. Making Secure Remote File Transfers with rsync over SSH

7.7. Automating rsync Transfers with cron and SSH

7.8. Excluding Files from Backup

7.9. Including Selected Files to Backup

7.10. Managing Includes with a Simple Include File

7.11. Managing Includes and Excludes with an Exclude File

7.12. Limiting rsync’s Bandwidth Use

7.13. Building an rsyncd Backup Server

7.14. Limiting Access to rsyncd Modules

7.15. Creating a Message of the Day for rsyncd

8. Managing Disk Partitioning with parted

Overview

8.1. Unmounting Your Partitions Before Using parted

8.2. Choosing the Command Mode for parted

8.3. Viewing Your Existing Disks and Partitions

8.4. Creating GPT Partitions on a Nonbooting Disk

8.5. Creating Partitions for Installing Linux

8.6. Removing Partitions

8.7. Recovering a Deleted Partition

8.8. Increasing Partition Size

8.9. Shrinking a Partition

9. Managing Partitions and Filesystems with GParted

9.1. Viewing Partitions, Filesystems, and Free Space

9.2. Creating a New Partition Table

9.3. Deleting a Partition

9.4. Creating a New Partition

9.5. Deleting a Filesystem Without Deleting the Partition

9.6. Recovering a Deleted Partition

9.7. Resizing Partitions

9.8. Moving a Partition

9.9. Copying a Partition

9.10. Managing Filesystems with GParted

10. Getting Detailed Information About Your Computer Hardware

10.1. Collecting Hardware Information with lshw

10.2. Filtering lshw Output

10.3. Detecting Hardware, Including Displays and RAID Devices, with hwinfo

10.4. Detecting PCI Hardware with lspci

10.5. Understanding lspci Output

10.6. Filtering lspci Output

10.7. Using lspci to Identify Kernel Modules

10.8. Using lsusb to List USB Devices

10.9. Listing Partitions and Hard Disks with lsblk

10.10. Getting CPU Information

10.11. Identifying Your Hardware Architecture

11. Creating and Managing Filesystems

Filesystem Overview

11.1. Listing Supported Filesystems

11.2. Identifying Your Existing Filesystems

11.3. Resizing Filesystems

11.4. Deleting Filesystems

11.5. Using a New Filesystem

11.6. Creating Automatic Filesystem Mounts

11.7. Creating Ext4 Filesystems

11.8. Configuring the Ext4 Journal Mode

11.9. Finding Which Journal Your Ext4 Filesystem Is Attached To

11.10. Improving Performance with an External Journal for Ext4

11.11. Freeing Space from Reserved Blocks on Ext4 Filesystems

11.12. Creating a New XFS Filesystem

11.13. Resizing an XFS Filesystem

11.14. Creating an exFAT Filesystem

11.15. Creating FAT16 and FAT32 Filesystems

11.16. Creating a Btrfs Filesystem

12. Secure Remote Access with OpenSSH

12.1. Installing OpenSSH Server

12.2. Generating New Host Keys

12.3. Configuring Your OpenSSH Server

12.4. Checking Configuration Syntax

12.5. Setting Up Password Authentication

12.6. Retrieving a Key Fingerprint

12.7. Using Public Key Authentication

12.8. Managing Multiple Public Keys

12.9. Changing a Passphrase

12.10. Automatic Passphrase Management with Keychain

12.11. Using Keychain to Make Passphrases Available to Cron

12.12. Tunneling an X Session Securely over SSH

12.13. Opening an SSH Session and Running a Command in One Line

12.14. Mounting Entire Remote Filesystems with sshfs

12.15. Customizing the Bash Prompt for SSH

12.16. Listing Supported Encryption Algorithms

13. Secure Remote Access with OpenVPN

OpenVPN Overview

13.1. Installing OpenVPN, Server and Client

13.2. Setting Up a Simple Connection Test

13.3. Setting Up Easy Encryption with Static Keys

13.4. Installing EasyRSA to Manage Your PKI

13.5. Creating a PKI

13.6. Customizing EasyRSA Default Options

13.7. Creating and Testing Server and Client Configurations

13.8. Controlling OpenVPN with systemctl

13.9. Distributing Client Configurations More Easily with .ovpn Files

13.10. Hardening Your OpenVPN Server

13.11. Configuring Networking

14. Building a Linux Firewall with firewalld

firewalld Overview

14.1. Querying Which Firewall Is Running

14.2. Installing firewalld

14.3. Finding Your firewalld Version

14.4. Configuring iptables or nftables as the firewalld Backend

14.5. Listing All Zones and All Services Managed by Each Zone

14.6. Listing and Querying Services

14.7. Selecting and Setting Zones

14.8. Changing the Default firewalld Zone

14.9. Customizing firewalld Zones

14.10. Creating a New Zone

14.11. Integrating NetworkManager and firewalld

14.12. Allowing or Blocking Specific Ports

14.13. Blocking IP Addresses with Rich Rules

14.14. Changing a Zone Default Target

15. Printing on Linux

Overview

15.1. Using the CUPS Web Interface

15.2. Installing a Locally Attached Printer

15.3. Giving Printers Useful Names

15.4. Installing a Network Printer

15.5. Using Driverless Printing

15.6. Sharing Nonnetworked Printers

15.7. Correcting the “Forbidden” Error Message

15.8. Installing Printer Drivers

15.9. Modifying an Installed Printer

15.10. Saving Documents by Printing to a PDF File

15.11. Troubleshooting

16. Managing Local Name Services with Dnsmasq and the hosts File

16.1. Simple Name Resolution with /etc/hosts

16.2. Using /etc/hosts for Testing and Blocking Annoyances

16.3. Finding All DNS and DHCP Servers on Your Network

16.4. Installing Dnsmasq

16.5. Making systemd-resolved and NetworkManager Play Nice with Dnsmasq

16.6. Configuring Dnsmasq for LAN DNS

16.7. Configuring firewalld to Allow DNS and DHCP

16.8. Testing Your Dnsmasq Server from a Client Machine

16.9. Managing DHCP with Dnsmasq

16.10. Advertising Important Services over DHCP

16.11. Creating DHCP Zones for Subnets

16.12. Assigning Static IP Addresses from DHCP

16.13. Configuring DHCP Clients for Automatic DNS Entries

16.14. Managing Dnsmasq Logging

16.15. Configuring Wildcard Domains

17. Keeping Time with ntpd, chrony, and timesyncd

17.1. Finding Which NTP Client Is on Your Linux System

17.2. Using timesyncd for Simple Time Synchronization

17.3. Setting Time Manually with timedatectl

17.4. Using chrony for Your NTP Client

17.5. Using chrony as a LAN Time Server

17.6. Viewing chrony Statistics

17.7. Using ntpd for Your NTP Client

17.8. Using ntpd for Your NTP Server

17.9. Managing Time Zones with timedatectl

17.10. Managing Time Zones Without timedatectl

18. Building an Internet Firewall/Router on Raspberry Pi

Overview

18.1. Starting and Shutting Down Raspberry Pi

18.2. Finding Hardware and How-Tos

18.3. Cooling the Raspberry Pi

18.4. Installing Raspberry Pi OS with Imager and dd

18.5. Installing Raspberry Pi with NOOBS

18.6. Connecting to a Video Display Without HDMI

18.7. Booting into Recovery Mode

18.8. Adding a Second Ethernet Interface

18.9. Setting Up an Internet Connection Sharing Firewall with firewalld

18.10. Running Your Raspberry Pi Headless

18.11. Building a DNS/DHCP Server with Raspberry Pi

19. System Rescue and Recovery with SystemRescue

19.1. Creating Your SystemRescue Bootable Device

19.2. Getting Started with SystemRescue

19.3. Understanding SystemRescue’s Two Boot Screens

19.4. Understanding SystemRescue’s Boot Options

19.5. Identifying Filesystems

19.6. Resetting a Linux Root Password

19.7. Enabling SSH in SystemRescue

19.8. Copying Files over the Network with scp and sshfs

19.9. Repairing GRUB from SystemRescue

19.10. Resetting a Windows Password

19.11. Rescuing a Failing Hard Disk with GNU ddrescue

19.12. Managing Partitions and Filesystems from SystemRescue

19.13. Creating a Data Partition on Your SystemRescue USB Drive

19.14. Preserving Changes in SystemRescue

20. Troubleshooting a Linux PC

Overview

20.1. Finding Useful Information in Logfiles

20.2. Configuring journald

20.3. Building a Logging Server with systemd

20.4. Monitoring Temperatures, Fans, and Voltages with lm-sensors

20.5. Adding a Graphical Interface to lm-sensors

20.6. Monitoring Hard Disk Health with smartmontools

20.7. Configuring smartmontools to Send Email Reports

20.8. Diagnosing a Sluggish System with top

20.9. Viewing Selected Processes in top

20.10. Escaping from a Frozen Graphical Desktop

20.11. Troubleshooting Hardware

21. Troubleshooting Networks

Diagnostic Hardware

21.1. Testing Connectivity with ping

21.2. Profiling Your Network with fping and nmap

21.3. Finding Duplicate IP Addresses with arping

21.4. Testing HTTP Throughput and Latency with httping

21.5. Using mtr to Find Troublesome Routers

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