1) Linux Database Bible
The Linux Database Bible is the only comprehensive reference on the market for both OpenSource and commercial database products. The book includes: an introduction to Linux Databases; advice for determining user needs for data manipulation and storage; selection of an appropriate database; installation and configuration of the selected database; the administration, care, and feeding of the database; security and disaster recovery issues; and special considerations when integrating a database with the Internet. In addition to the above material, you’ll find in-depth analysis of the programming issues involved, appendices for each covered database, command summaries and examples of schema and coding to address commonly encountered problems.
2) Linux Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to Linux Certification Skills
Develop the skills you need in the real world
Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you’ll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at Linux administration, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you’ll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of Linux administration, including:
*Working on the command line*Configuring hardware and the kernel
*Managing software and processes
*Documenting the system
*Working with partitions and file systems
*Configuring network features
*Managing security
*An invaluable study tool
This no-nonsense book also maps to the common tasks and exam objectives for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) LPIC-1 certification exam and CompTIA’s Linux+ certification exam. So whether you’re preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you’ll find the instruction you need, such as:
*Using the command shell history*Redirecting input and output
*Resolving hardware conflicts
*Reconfiguring the login screen
*Managing RPM and Debian packages
*Protecting your system from runaway processes
*Monitoring your system for degraded performance and security problems
*Using journaling filesystems
*Configuring common server software
The Street Smarts Series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.
3) WordPress Complete: set up, customize, and market your blog
Wordpress is a simple and powerful way to start blogging. If you’re not an IT expert but want to use a state of the art blogging system to give your blog the best chance of success, while giving you the time to focus on content and your readers, WordPress is the right system for you, and this book is the right place to start. It will give you a rapid and straightforward introduction to the rich and powerful features of WordPress and get you up and running with a state of the art blog as quickly and painlessly as possible.
WordPress is an open source blog engine released under GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versality and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.
4) Backup & Recovery
Packed with practical, freely-available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems — as well as various databases — this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.
Backup & Recovery starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. It then explains several open source backup products that automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. Backup & Recovery then explains how to perform bare metal recovery of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, VMWare, & Windows systems using freely-available utilities. The book also provides overviews of the current state of the commercial backup software and hardware market, including overviews of CDP, Data De-duplication, D2D2T, and VTL technology. Finally, it covers how to automate the backups of DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase databases - without purchasing a commercial backup product to do so.
For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you how to ensure data protection without resorting to expensive commercial solutions. You will soon learn to:
*Automate the backup of popular databases without a commercial utility*Perform bare metal recovery of any popular open systems platform, including your PC or laptop
*Utilize valuable but often unknown open source backup products
*Understand the state of commercial backup software, including explanations of CDP and data de-duplication software
*Access the current state of backup hardware, including Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)
5) Hacker Linux Uncovered
Concentrating on Linux installation, tuning, and administration, this guide to protecting systems from security attacks demonstrates how to install Linux so that it is tuned for the highest security and best performance, how to scan the network and encrypt the traffic for securing all private traffics in a public network, and how to monitor and log the system to detect potential security problems. Backup and recovery policies that provide a structure for secure operations are also considered, and information related to configuring an Apache server, e-mail service, and the Internet gateway using a proxy server, an FTP server, DSN server for mapping DNS names to IP addresses, and firewall for system protection is provided.
6) Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
Written by a leading developer and maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is a comprehensive overview of kernel configuration and building, a critical task for Linux users and administrators.
No distribution can provide a Linux kernel that meets all users’ needs. Computers big and small have special requirements that require reconfiguring and rebuilding the kernel. Whether you are trying to get sound, wireless support, and power management working on a laptop or incorporating enterprise features such as logical volume management on a large server, you can benefit from the insights in this book.
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell covers the entire range of kernel tasks, starting with downloading the source and making sure that the kernel is in sync with the versions of the tools you need. In addition to configuration and installation steps, the book offers reference material and discussions of related topics such as control of kernel options at runtime.
A key benefit of the book is a chapter on determining exactly what drivers are needed for your hardware. Also included are recipes that list what you need to do to accomplish a wide range of popular tasks.
7) Hack Proofing Linux : A Guide to Open Source Security
The Linux operating system continues to gain market share, based largely on its reputation as the most secure operating system available. The challenge faced by system administrators is that Linux is secure only if installed and configured properly, constantly and meticulously updated, and carefully integrated with a wide variety of Open Source security tools. Hack Proofing Linux provides the system administrator with coverage of the most popular Linux operating systems and Open Source security tools, along with the techniques necessary to properly configure and maintain Linux systems and to counter malicious attacks.
