UNIX Hints & Hacks
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- UNIX Knowledge Needed
- Tested UNIX Flavors
- Shells and Scripting Languages
- Before Beginning
- Hints & Hacks Topics
- Examples: Commands, Functions, Routines, and Procedures
- Symbols, Command Syntax, and Notations
- Structure
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Topics in Administration
- 1.1 Collecting System Information
- 1.2 Backup Key Files!
- 1.3 Execution on the Last Day of a Month
- 1.4 Dealing with Unwanted Daemons
- 1.5 Keep Those Daemons Running
- 1.6 fuser Instead of ps
- 1.7 Swap on-the-Fly
- 1.8 Keep It Up with nohup
- 1.9 Redirecting Output to Null
- 1.10 Keeping Remote Users Out
- 1.11 Rewinding Tapes Fast
- 1.12 Generating a Range of Numbers
- 1.13 Remove the ---- Dashes ----
- 1.14 echo Does ls
- 1.15 Building Large Dummy Filesence
- 1.16 Burning-in Disk Drives
- 1.17 Bringing a System Down
- 4.1 Monitoring at Boot Time
- 4.2 Starting with a Fresh Install
- 4.3 Monitor with tail
- 4.4 Cut the Log in Half
- 4.5 Mail a Process
- 4.6 Watching the Disk Space
- 4.7 Find the Disk Hog
- 4.8 Watching by grepping the Difference
- 4.9 Monitoring with ping
- 4.10 Monitoring Core Files
- 4.11 Monitoring Crash Files
- 4.12 Remember Daylight Savings Time
- 4.13 Checking the Time
- 5.1 User Account Names
- 5.2 Passwords
- 5.3 UID
- 5.4 Group IDs and /etc/group
- 5.5 GECOS Field
- 5.6 Home Directories
- 5.7 Shells and the Password File
- 5.8 Configuring an Account
- 5.9 User Account Startup Files
- 5.10 Using Aliases
- 5.11 MS-DOS Users
- 5.12 Changing Shells
- 5.13 Finding My Displays
- 5.14 Copy Files to Multiple Home Directories
- 5.15 Kill an Account
- 5.16 Nulling the Root Password Without vi
- 6.1 Copy Files with Permissions and Time Stamps
- 6.2 Copy Files Remotely
- 6.3 Which tmp Is a Good Temp?
- 6.4 Dealing with Symbolic Links
- 6.5 Finding Files with grep
- 6.6 Multiple grep
- 6.7 Executing Commands Recursively with find
- 6.8 Moving and Renaming Groups of Files
- 6.9 Stripping the Man Pages
- 6.10 Clean Up DOS Files
- 6.11 Splitting Files
- 6.12 Limit the Size of the Core
- 6.13 uuencode and uudecode
Chapter 7: Displays and Emulations
- 7.1 Terminal Types
- 7.2 Setting Terminal Types
- 7.3 Make Use of stty
- 7.4 Hotkeys
- 7.5 Testing ASCII Terminals
- 7.6 Troubleshooting ASCII Terminals
- 7.7 Sharing STDIN/STDOUT on Two Terminals
- 7.8 Refreshing X
- 7.9 Killing Resources with xkill
- 7.10 Setting xterm Titlebars
- 7.11 Control the Mouse with the Keyboard
- 7.12 Display from a Remote X Server
- 7.13 ASCII Table in UNIX
- 8.1 The Anatomy of ed & vi
- 8.2 The Six Steps to ed
- 8.3 Six Simple Steps to vi
- 8.4 Configuring vi Parameters
- 8.5 Abbreviating vi Commands
- 8.6 Creating Macros
- 8.7 Search and Replace
- 8.8 Other Places to Use vi
- 8.9 Editing Multiple Files
- 8.10 Edit, Run, and Edit Again
- 8.11 Reading STDOUT into vi
- 8.12 Using vi when tmp Is Full
- 9.1 Six Types of Users
- 9.2 New Users
- 9.3 Public Relations
- 9.4 Leave Big Impressions with Little Things
- 9.5 Handling an Irate User
- 9.6 Helping Users with Online Tools
- 9.7 Users Borrowing Equipment
- 9.8 Outage Notifications
- 9.9 Users Who Take Care of You
- 9.10 When Users Leave
Chapter 10: System Administration: The Occupation
- 10.1 Three Levels of Administration
- 10.2 Functions of an Administrator
- 10.3 Finding a Job Working with UNIX
- 10.4 Preparing an Administrator's Résumé
- 10.5 Preparing for an Interview
- 10.6 Types of Interviews
- 10.7 Being Interviewed
- 10.8 Finding the Right Person for the Job
- 10.9 Interviewing Candidates
- 10.10 Working with Vendors: Sales and Maintenance Representatives
- 10.11 Working with Vendor Support
- 10.12 Working with Local Support Engineers
Appendix A: Basic Scripting Concepts
Appendix B: System Installation Checklist
Appendix C: System Incident Log
Appendix D: Administration Tools and Recommended Organizations
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