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Linux Administration Cookbook

By : Adam K. Dean
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Linux Administration Cookbook

By: Adam K. Dean

Overview of this book

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators,and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform. The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly. This book will get you started with administering Linux, giving you the knowledge and tools you need to troubleshoot day-to-day problems, ranging from a Raspberry Pi to a server in Azure, while giving you a good understanding of the fundamentals of how GNU/Linux works. Through the course of the book, you’ll install and configure a system, while the author regales you with errors and anecdotes from his vast experience as a data center hardware engineer, systems administrator, and DevOps consultant. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical knowledge of Linux, which will serve as a bedrock for learning Linux administration and aid you in your Linux journey.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Debugging with iftop

In this section, we're going to look at a member of the top family (which is quite extensive, featuring atop, iotop, htop, and so on), which is specifically geared toward network traffic statistics and debugging.

iftop is both handy and very readable.

Getting ready

For this section, we're going to use centos1 and centos2, connect to both in separate windows.

Make sure that you install iftop on centos2 prior to starting. This comes from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository, so we have to install that first:

$ sudo yum install -y epel-release
$ sudo yum install -y iftop

Start iftop on centos2:

$ sudo iftop -i eth1
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