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CentOS System Administration Essentials

CentOS System Administration Essentials

By : Andrew Mallett
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CentOS System Administration Essentials

CentOS System Administration Essentials

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By: Andrew Mallett
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Overview of this book

If you are a Linux administrator who is looking to gain knowledge that differentiates yourself from the crowd, then this is the book for you. Beginners who have a keen interest to learn more about Linux administration will also progress quickly with this resourceful learning guide.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Taming vi
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1. Taming vi
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CLI trickery – shortcuts that you will love
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Vim and vi
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Getting the .vimrc setup the way you like
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Search and replace
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Learning to remove extraneous comments from a file with a few deft key strokes
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Summary
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2. Cold Starts
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2. Cold Starts
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The GRUB and MBR
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When is the root filesystem not the root filesystem?
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Working on the GRUB console
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Protecting the GRUB menu with passwords
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Boot splashing with plymouth
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3. CentOS Filesystems – A Deeper Look
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3. CentOS Filesystems – A Deeper Look
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A magician's secret
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Special permissions
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Naming your pipes
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Understanding the command stat
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Enterprise filesystem shootout
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Using BTRFS snapshots
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4. YUM – Software Never Looked So Good
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4. YUM – Software Never Looked So Good
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Managing software installation with RPM files
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Creating your own RPM file
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Creating a YUM Repository
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Summary
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5. Herding Cats – Taking Control of Processes
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5. Herding Cats – Taking Control of Processes
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Managing services with Upstart
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Creating your own Upstart script
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Managing processes
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6. Users – Do We Really Want Them?
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6. Users – Do We Really Want Them?
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Managing public and private groups
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Getent
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Quotas
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Scripting user creation
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Summary
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7. LDAP – A Better Type of User
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7. LDAP – A Better Type of User
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LDAP concepts
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Installing 389-ds
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LDAP user account management
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LDAP authentication
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8. Nginx – Deploying a Performance-centric Web Server
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8. Nginx – Deploying a Performance-centric Web Server
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Installing and configuring Nginx
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Installing PHP
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Installing MySQL
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Create dynamic web content
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9. Puppet – Now You Are the Puppet Master
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9. Puppet – Now You Are the Puppet Master
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Installing the Puppet master
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Puppet resource
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Managing packages, services, and files
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Summary
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10. Security Central
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10. Security Central
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Understanding PAM configuration files
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Limits of PAM
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SELinux
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Hardening Linux
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11. Graduation Day
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11. Graduation Day
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Securing remote access to your system
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Best practices of OpenLDAP
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Best practices of Nginx
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Mastering Puppet
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What's new in CentOS 7
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Index
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Index

Understanding the command stat

The CentOS command line is full of tools, and trying to learn them all is perhaps a lifetime's work. As with all tasks, reaching the finish line begins with the first step. Our first step will be to delve into the world of the /usr/bin/stat command. By using this command, we can query a file's metadata. A file in CentOS consists of:

  • A filename (hard link)
  • File metadata (inode)
  • Data

Using stat and the filename alone, we can view the complete inode metadata. This is demonstrated with the following group of commands:

$ cd #move to your home directory
$ ls > my_newfile #list the contents and redirect the output to the new file
$ stat my_newfile #display the inode metadata

The following screenshot displays the output of stat:

Understanding the command stat

We can see that the complete metadata is displayed, but if we choose, we can display just elements of the metadata; for example, to display the file permissions in the octal format, run the following command:

$ stat -c%a my_newfile

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