5 Responses to “Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two: Tips & Tools for Connecting, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting”

1. John R. Vacca Says:
   March 9th, 2010 at 8:38 pm

   Are you a system administrator? If so, this book is for you! Authors Bill Von Hagen and Brian K. Jones, has done an excellent job of writing the second volume in a book that focuses on cool hacks they developed or used on your server and systems management.

   Von Hagen and Jones, begin to explore the authentication options available to you in a heterogeneous environment of Network Computing and simplify management of user accounts and passwords. Then the authors explore ways to connect to remote systems. Furthermore, the authors explain how to set up central servers that do things like synchronize time on all systems in your environment, deliver IP addresses to newly connected hosts, and integrate these services with existing ones. The authors present a variety of cool sysadmin tips and techniques that have accumulated over the years, including how to keep running processes without writing a daemon or keep in touch with PXE to boot Linux, how to share information with other systems administrators centrally, how to get the most out of the terminal classic but incredibly useful applications-oriented, and so on. They continue to explore some interesting ways that are easier to manage storage, implement new systems, backing up large drives today, and also reduce the need to restore some of the requests, sometimes blocking the box each Manager system. Then the authors provide some tips and tricks for distributed storage management and ensure that synchronize administrative environments on servers. After discussing a number of security tools and techniques that can help you sleep at night and protect their systems at the same time. Then provide ways to optimize system performance, either by finding out who is hogging all the CPU and demolition waste as user sessions live network or with the buttons on the / proc file system to tune system performance, or use the file system to minimize system restart time. The following tips are included so you can centralize log information in different ways, a warning when problems arise, and take full advantage of the system state information, whether your registration information, internal control, data-state disk or distance information about the hardware state can be obtained through SNMP. Finally, the authors show how lame boot system so you can diagnose problems, repair munged filesystems, and even retrieve deleted files from data stored on disks that have gone Belly Up.
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   This excellent book has presented choppers which are techniques that the authors have used several times. More importantly, consider these techniques as time and trouble to savers that are usually quite fun and cool.
   Rating: 5 / 5

2. Rob Wehrli Says:
   March 9th, 2010 at 11:18 pm

   I can not say enough about the work of the Linux server hacks VII of the two pensions. Bill and Brian have hit the ball out of the park with this.

   Only part of the LVM (Logical Volume Management) have saved my bacon!

   Every single “hack” (read tip) is very practical, applicable and relevant to the management and administration of Linux systems on the “servers” or not!

   The part of this book is that you become really good, insightful views on the experiences of veterans of Unix systems. If you sit in a NOC or if you are the type 24×7 / gal on a farm, this book is an occupational requirement! All others will appreciate it if you’re running Linux. In my modest network of about 30 Linux systems, I can say saved me hours of work, with only two of the hacks in this volume. Given the time savings, buying this book saved my company more than 300% on the cover price.
   Rating: 5 / 5

3. wherefore Says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 1:27 am

   This is a very good book. These comments are for users of Linux on the way up. If you are already an über-user, so it is likely that, as this book, anyway.

   If you do not have the first volume, you can start with. It has some simple but very useful things that apply to almost all with their own Linux box and a command line.

   This volume is much more advanced, and most of the tricks and techniques depending on the much more specialized problem domains, ie. things that could have run at the moment. An advantage of this book if the first is that it is up to date on their existing software recommendations for use.
   Rating: 4 / 5

4. Midwest Book Review Says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 3:09 am

   The second volume of Bill von Hagen and Brian K. Linux Jones’ Server Hacks: Tips & Tools for connection, monitor and troubleshoot the initial volume is a further step, after an offer of over a hundred of cool, new devices in a second volume to broaden the opportunities Linux. Hacks here just a few minutes to read, but gives a lot of answers on everything from remote a graphical desktop Linux for end users to centralize Windows font resources, and the combination of Network Storage areas in new servers.
   Rating: 5 / 5

5. Daniel McKinnon Says:
   March 10th, 2010 at 4:21 am

   “Linux Server Hacks Volume Two” by William von Hagen is an excellent companion guide for all Linux users and administrators. Packed with more than 450 pages and 100 new units, not in Volume 1 is not only known for all the things you can do with Linux, it’s the hot tips and tricks that most Linux freak can learn about Excel.

   chapters total:

   01. Linux authentication
   02. Remote GUI Connectivity
   03.
   Services System 04th Cool Sysadmin Tools and Tips
   05th Storage and backup
   06th Standardize, share, and synchronize resources
   07th Security
   08th Troubleshooting and performance
   09th Log files and monitoring
   10th System rescue, recovery and repair of

   Pick this book up now, you will not be disappointed with this incident delcious Linux!

   ** *** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
   Rating: 5 / 5

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