Archive for the ‘Unix’ Category

Ebook: UNIX Administration – A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems and Network Management

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Unix Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems and Network Management attempts to make UNIX essential and network administrative topics more accessible to a wide audience, including both academic and professional users. The selected book title fully reflects this idea: to present UNIX administration in a comprehensive way and enable ...

Ebook: The OpenBSD Packet Filter

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Packet Filter (from here on referred to as PF) is OpenBSD's system for filtering TCP/IP traffic and doing Network Address Translation. PF is also capable of normalizing and conditioning TCP/IP traffic and providing bandwidth control and packet prioritization. PF has been a part of the GENERIC OpenBSD kernel since OpenBSD ...

Ebook: Computer, Internet and Network Systems Security

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Table of Content 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BASIC INTERNET TECHNICAL DETAILS 1.1.1 TCP/IP : Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol 1.1.2 UDP:User Datagram Protocol 1.1.3 Internet Addressing 1.1.4 Types of Connections and Connectors 1.1.5 Routing 1.2 Internet Applications and Protocols 1.2.1 ARCHIE 1.2.2 DNS ? Domain Name System 1.2.3 E-mail ? Electronic Mail 1.2.4 SMTP ? Simple Mail Transport Protocol 1.2.5 PEM ? Privacy Enhanced Mail 1.2.6 ...

Ebooks: Automating UNIX and Linux Administration

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Wouldn?t you like to automate the tedious daily tasks of system administration? Automating UNIX and Linux Administration will show you how, by exploring existing tools and offering real-world examples. Parts of the book are Linux-specific, but most of it applies to a UNIX system, including multiple variants of UNIX. Author ...

Ebook: OpenBSD Frequently Answers Questions

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

This FAQ is supplemental documentation to the man pages, available both in the installed system and online. The FAQ covers the active release of OpenBSD, currently v3.5. There are likely features and changes to features in the development version (-current) version of OpenBSD that are not covered in this FAQ.

Ebook: The NetBSD Operating System: A Guide

Monday, July 16th, 2007

This guide describes the installation and the configuration of the NetBSD operating system. It addresses mainly people coming from other operating systems in hope of being useful for the solution of the many small problems found when one starts using a new tool. This guide is not a Unix tutorial: ...

Ebook: C++ by Dissection

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Today, the ANSI C++ programming language is widely used throughout the world in both academia and industry. In many educational institutions it is the language of choice for a first programming course and for a language to be used for computer science instruction. A key reason for this is that ...

Ebook: Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

This new edition of Practical Unix & Internet Security provides detailed coverage of today's increasingly important security and networking issues. Focusing on the four most popular Unix variants today--Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD--this book contains new information on PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), LDAP, SMB/Samba, anti-theft technologies, embedded systems, ...