Last Updated on August 22, 2023
The Debian Administrator’s Handbook
The 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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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.
We’ve contacted the publisher about the 2 O’Reilly books. When any information is received, we’ll update accordingly.