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Linux Administration Best Practices

By : Scott Alan Miller
3.3 (3)
Book Image

Linux Administration Best Practices

3.3 (3)
By: Scott Alan Miller

Overview of this book

Linux is a well-known, open source Unix-family operating system that is the most widely used OS today. Linux looks set for a bright future for decades to come, but system administration is rarely studied beyond learning rote tasks or following vendor guidelines. To truly excel at Linux administration, you need to understand how these systems work and learn to make strategic decisions regarding them. Linux Administration Best Practices helps you to explore best practices for efficiently administering Linux systems and servers. This Linux book covers a wide variety of topics from installation and deployment through to managing permissions, with each topic beginning with an overview of the key concepts followed by practical examples of best practices and solutions. You'll find out how to approach system administration, Linux, and IT in general, put technology into proper business context, and rethink your approach to technical decision making. Finally, the book concludes by helping you to understand best practices for troubleshooting Linux systems and servers that'll enable you to grow in your career as well as in any aspect of IT and business. By the end of this Linux administration book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to take your Linux administration skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Understanding the Role of Linux System Administrator
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Section 2: Best Practices for Linux Technologies
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Section 3: Approaches to Effective System Administration

Discovering common databases on Linux

Most operating systems have one or two really popular, key database products associated with them. On Windows this is Microsoft SQL Server, for example. Linux is very different in this regard. Not only is one singular database product not closely ideologically associated with the operating system, but there is typically a plethora of database options available already included in nearly every Linux distribution. This makes it so much more challenging to be prepared to be a Linux system administrator because the expectation that you are knowledgeable of and ready to manage any number of various database products exists. Your theoretical Windows system administrator counterpart would, culturally, need only have knowledge of one very predictable product to claim base knowledge of the entire field. Many databases can run on Windows, but anything other than MS SQL Server is considered an oddity and specialized knowledge. There would never be an expectation...