Download Linux Mint System Administrator's Practical Guide for Beginners

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Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Linux Mint
  • Overview
  • A bit of history
  • Open source project
  • Contributing to the project
  • Why Linux Mint is different
  • Editions
  • Summary
  • References
Chapter 2: Installing Linux Mint
  • Creating a bootable Linux Mint USB flash drive
  • Time for action – downloading and burning the ISO image
  • Installing Linux Mint from a flash drive
  • Time for action – booting and installing Linux Mint
  • Booting Linux Mint
  • Time for action – booting Linux Mint for the first time
  • Summary
Chapter 3: Basic Shell
  • What’s a shell?
  • Where are you?
  • Time for action – learning pwd and cd commands
  • Running commands
  • Time for action – launching a program from the command line
  • Search commands
  • Time for action – using the which command
  • Listing, examining, and finding files
  • Time for action – using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands
  • Pipelines and redirection
  • Time for action – using pipelines and redirection by applying different commands
  • Setting environment variables
  • Time for action – setting the PATH environment variable
  • Displaying command history
  • Time for action – using the history command
  • Creating your first shell script
  • Time for action – creating and executing a shell script
  • How to get help
  • Time for action – using the man and the info commands
  • Summary
Chapter 4: Account Provisioning
  • Who am I?
  • Time for action – finding out the current user
  • Becoming the root user
  • Time for action – using the sudo command to become the root user
  • Changing password
  • Time for action – changing the password for a user
  • Adding a new user
  • Time for action – changing the password for a user
  • Adding a new group
  • Time for action – creating a new group called develop
  • Adding a user to a group
  • Time for action – adding the user luke to the develop group
  • Changing user privileges
  • Time for action – granting permissions to a user for monitoring system logs
  • Summary
Chapter 5: Installing, Removing, and Upgrading Software
  • Installing software
  • Time for action – installing AbiWord word processor
  • Removing software
  • Time for action – removing the AbiWord program
  • Upgrading software
  • Time for action – upgrading software through the Update Manager tool
  • Summary
Chapter 6: Configuring hardware
  • Detecting hardware
  • Time for action – how to display the device information
  • Configuring your monitor
  • Time for action – changing the screen resolution
  • Configuring a keyboard
  • Time for action – adding a new layout
  • Configuring your mouse
  • Time for action – changing mouse orientation
  • Configuring sound
  • Time for action – how to enable window and button sound
  • Installing additional drivers
  • Summary
Chapter 7: Networking
  • Configuring a wired network
  • Time for action – configuring your connection
  • Configuring the wireless network
  • Time for action – how to connect your computer to a wireless network
  • Accessing a Windows-shared folder
  • Time for action – how to access a specific shared folder
  • Connecting to servers
  • Time for action – connecting to an FTP server
  • Summary
Chapter 8: Storage and Backup
  • Filesystem types
  • Disk quotas
  • Time for action – assigning disk quota to a specific user
  • Disk usage analysis
  • Time for action – examining disk usage
  • Creating backups
  • Time for action – making a backup of a specific folder
  • Restoring backups
  • Time for action – restoring a backup folder
  • Summary
Chapter 9: Security
  • Running an SSH server
  • Time for action – installing and configuring an SSH server
  • Installing an anti-virus software
  • Time for action – installing Clam-AV anti-virus
  • Configuring a firewall
  • Time for action – how to configure a simple firewall
  • Using a security module for the kernel
  • Time for action – installing AppArmor
  • Managing your password safely
  • Time for action – installing and using KeePass
  • Building a security checklist
  • Summary
Chapter 10: Monitoring Your System
  • Processes and services
  • Starting and stopping services
  • Time for action – stopping and starting an SSH daemon
  • Activating services
  • Time for action – activating Samba
  • Listing the running processes
  • Time for action – list the processes running on our machine
  • Displaying CPU, memory, and network usage
  • Time for action – Displaying resources information in real time
  • Summary
Chapter 11: Troubleshooting
  • Hardware
  • Time for action – checking memory, CPU, USB, and PCI devices
  • Checking log files
  • Time for action – listing the last five lines of the syslog file
  • Kernel
  • Time for action – using lsmod, modprobe, and dmesg commands
  • Networking
  • Time for action – checking who is listening on what port
  • Processes and filesystems
  • Time for action – finding a specific process
  • Summary