Linux Administration - Bunch O' Stuff - Daemons

Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach

Linux Administration: Bunch O' Stuff:

Daemons:





Author: Charles Hayes:



This curriculum design and

instruction is for the Linux

administrator who must

efficiently solve technical

problems and maximize the

reliability and performance

of a production environment.

It addresses today's most

important Linux distributions

and most powerful new administrative

tools. It spells out detailed best

practices for every facet of system

administration, including storage

management, network design and

administration, web hosting,

software configuration management,

performance analysis, Windows

interoperability,m and much more.

Systems administrators will expecially

appreciate the thourough and up-to-date

subject of such topics such as DNS, LDAP,

secrutiy, and the Management of IT service

organizations:

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* A Limited Glimpse:








Topics Include:

* Bunch O' Stuff:

@ Daemons:

A. Introduction:

B. init: the primordial process:

C. cron and atd: schedule commands:

D. xinetd and inetd: manage daemons:

1. Configuring xinetd:

2. Configuring inetd:

3. The services file:

4. portmap: map RPC services to TCP

and UDP ports:

E. Kernel daemons:

1. klogd: read kernel messages:

F. Printing daemons:

1. cupsd: scheduler for the Common

UNIX Printing System:

2. lpd: manage printing:

G. File service daemons:

1. rpc.nfsd: serve files:

2. rpc.mountd: respond to mount

requests:

3. amd and automount: mount

filesystems on demand:

4. rpc.lockd and rpc.statd: manage

NFS locks:

5. rpciod: cache NFS blocks:

6. smbd: provide file and printing

service to Windows clients:

7. nmbd: NetBIOS name server:

H. Administrative database dawmons:

1. ypbind: locate NIS servers:

2. ypserv: NIS server:

3. rpc.ypxfrd: transfer NIS databases:

4. Lwresd: lightweight resolver library

server:

5. nscd: mane service cache daemon:

I. Electronic mail daemons:

1. sendmail: transport electronic mail:

2. smtpd: simple Mail Transport

Protocol daemon:

3. popd: basic mailbox server:

4. imapd: deluxe mailbox server:

J. Remote login and command execution

daemons:

1. sshd: secure remote login server:

2. in.rlogind: obsolete remote login

server:

3. in.telneted: yet another remote login

server:

4. in.rshd. remote command execution

server:

K. Booting and configuration daemons:

1. dhcpd: dynamic address assignment:

2. in.tftpd: trivial file transfer server:

3. rpc.bootparamd: advanced diskless

life support:

4. hald: hardware abstration layer (HAL)

daemon:

5. udevd: serialize device connection

notices:

L. Other network daemons:

1. talkd: network chat service:

2. snmpd: provide remote nttwork management

service:

3. ftpd: file transfer server:

4. rsyncd: synchronize files among multiple

hosts:

5. routed: maintain routing tables:

6. gated: amintain complicated routing tables:

7. named: DNS server:

8. syslogd: process log messages:

9. in.fingered: look up users:

10. httpd: World Wide Web server:

11. ntpd: time synchronization daemon:

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