Systems Administration

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Check out specific tips and configurations for various Operating Systems

Contents 1 Desktop Environment 2 Domain Naming System 3 E-mail 4 Directory Services 5 Process automation 6 Software Management 7 Storage & Backup 8 Sun Microsystems 9 Web Servers 10 Miscellaneous

Desktop Environment

• Java Desktop System
• Enlightenment window manager

Domain Naming System

• djbdns installation and configuration. djbdns is a modular DNS server that is centered around security and simplicity. It uses the daemontools system to run it as a daemon rather that the normal init & runlevel scripts that are normally found in UNIX systems.
• BIND is the Berkeley Internet Naming Daemon, the de facto standard for DNS servers that provide naming resolution on the Internet.

E-mail

• Configuring fetchmail
• Sendmail
• Postfix

Directory Services

• openLDAP
• Sun Java System Directory Server

Process automation

• A quick overview of using cron and the crontab syntax.
• sed one-liners
• Syntax of Regular Expressions
• Shell Scripts

Software Management

• Creating Solaris packages
• Building software from source

Storage & Backup

• Solaris Volume Manager
• Veritas Volume Manager
• Veritas NetBackup

Sun Microsystems

• OpenBoot Commands

Web Servers

• Apache httpd server configuration and tips

Miscellaneous

• Cygwin launch windowmaker configuration