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The Debian Administrator’s Handbook

The Debian Administrator's HandbookThe Debian Administrator’s Handbook is a tome that teaches the essentials to anyone who wishes to be an effective administrator of a Debian machine. This book should appeal to systems administrators, users of a different distribution, and individuals that want to learn about about the Debian community. It’s an excellent resource accessible to everyone.

This is an English translation of the French best-seller “Cahier de l’Admin”. It’s expertly written by two Debian developers.

Topics covered include:

  • The Debian Project.
  • Presenting the Case Study.
  • Analysing the Existing Setup and Migrating.
  • Installation.
  • Packaging System: Tools and Fundamental Principles.
  • Maintenance and Updates: The APT Tools, aptitude, apt-get, apt-cache, and frontends for aptitude and synaptic.
  • Solving Problems and Finding Relevant Information examining document sources including manual pages, info documents, websites, and tutorials.
  • Basic Configuration: Network, Accounts, Printing etc.
  • Unix Services covering system boot, remote login, managing rights, administration interfaces, syslog system events, inetd, anacron, quotas, backup with rsync, hot plugging, and power management.
  • Network Infrastructure looking at gateways, virtual private network, quality of service, dynamic routing, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, and network diagnosis tools.
  • Network Services: Postfix, Apache web server, FTP server, NFS file server, Samba, Squid, LDAP directory.
  • Advanced Administration looking at RAID, LVM, virtualization, automated installation, and monitoring.
  • Workstation, configure X11, graphical desktop (GNOME, KDE, Xfce and others), email, web browsers, office suites and more.
  • Security with topics including firewalls, supervision, and SELinux.
  • Creating a Debian Package.
  • Debian’s Future looking at upcoming developments.
  • Derivative Distributions.
  • Short Remedial Course: Shell and Basic commands, organization of the filesystem hierarchy, inner workings of a computer, and more.

The book is available as a paperback or as an ebook.

Author: Raphaël Hertzog, Roland Mas
Pages: 512 (paperback)
Format: PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket
License: Open source; the book is licensed under the terms of a license compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

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Dudu Jibladze
Dudu Jibladze
6 years ago

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

deepittraining
deepittraining
5 years ago

Seems like this book is no longer free. This links to a oreilly page but not to where you can download this book. There are links to buy the book. But not to download it. Seems like is not free anymore.