Linux on HP Integrity Servers

Preface. About This Book. Linux Components. Relevant URLs. Online Manual Pages. Acknowledgments. 1. Booting: EFI and Management Processor. EFI and POSSE. Configuring the Management Processor (MP). 2. Installing Linux, RPM, and LILO. Installing Red Hat Advanced Server Using the Serial Console. Red Hat Package Manager RPM. 3. GNOME and KDE. GNOME. KDE. OpenOffice.org 78 4. Disk and File System Topics. Adding and Partitioning a SCSI Disk on an Integrity Server. Adding an IDE Disk to an IA-32 System Using fdisk. File System Maintenance with fsck and e2fsck, inodes, and Superblock. /etc/fstab, e2label, and mount. Linux Log Files. Linux File System Layout. Smart Array Configuration. 5. Working with the Linux Kernel. Steps to Creating a Linux Kernel. Tuning Your Existing Linux Kernel. Changing IP Forwarding. Patching the Kernel. Linux System Startup and Shutdown Scripts. 6. System Startup and Shutdown Scripts. Linux System Startup and Shutdown Scripts. Run Levels and /etc/inittab. service, xinetd, and chkconfig. System Shutdown. An Overview of IEEE 802.3, TCP/IP. 7. Networking Background. Physical Layer (Layer 1). Link Layer (Layer 2). Network Layer (Layer 3). Transport Layer (Layer 4). Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing and Subnet Mask. Ports and Related Topics. 8. Configuring and Using Networking. Commonly Used Networking Files. Commonly Used Commands. /etc/securetty for Equivalent root Access. /etc/hosts.equiv. Network File System (NFS). Graphical Tools - /usr/sbin/neat and Webmin. 9. Backup. Built-In Backup Programs. tar. cpio. dump and restore. Procedure to Create a Boot Disk if You Can't Boot Off CD-ROM. 10. Additional System Administration Topics. Check Processes with ps. Killing a Process. Signals. Users and Groups. Disk-Related Concepts. Viewing Mounted File Systems and Swap. Determining Disk Usage. Scheduling Cron Jobs. at. Device Files. Printing. Webmin. 11. Samba. smb.conf Setup. User Setup. Samba Startup. Mapping a Windows Drive to a Linux Directory. Mounting a

MARTY PONIATOWSKI has been a Solution Architect at Hewlett-Packard for fourteen years. He has worked with hundreds of HP customers ranging from leaders in financial services and manufacturing to Internet startups. Poniatowski's 13 books include HP-UX11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition andHP-UX Virtual Partitions.