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9781565926097

Perl for System Administration : Managing Multi-Platform Environments with Perl

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    9781565926097

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    1565926099

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

Perl for System Administration is aimed at all levels of administrators on the Unix, Windows NT, or MacOS platforms. Assuming only a little familiarity with Perl, it explores the pockets of administration where Perl can be most useful, including filesystem management, user administration, directory services, database administration, log files, and security and network monitoring. Perl for System Administration is for anyone who needs to use Perl for administrative tasks and needs to hit the ground running.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
1(12)
System Administration Is a Craft
1(1)
How Perl Can Help
1(2)
This Book Will Show You How
3(1)
What You Need
4(2)
Locating and Installing Modules
6(2)
It's Not Easy Being Omnipotent
8(4)
References for More Information
12(1)
Filesystems
13(30)
Perl to the Rescue
13(1)
Filesystem Differences
14(4)
Walking or Traversing the Filesystem
18(6)
Walking the Filesystem Using the File::Find Module
24(10)
Manipulating Disk Quotas
34(6)
Querying Filesystem Usage
40(2)
Module Information for This Chapter
42(1)
References for More Information
42(1)
User Accounts
43(52)
Unix User Identity
44(8)
Windows NT/2000 User Identity
52(9)
Building an Account System to Manage Users
61(31)
Module Information for This Chapter
92(1)
References for More Information
93(2)
User Activity
95(37)
MacOS Process Control
96(1)
NT/2000 Process Control
97(16)
Unix Process Control
113(7)
Tracking File and Network Operations
120(9)
Module Information for This Chapter
129(2)
References for More Information
131(1)
TCP/IP Name Services
132(37)
Host Files
132(13)
NIS, NIS+, and WINS
145(4)
Domain Name Service (DNS)
149(19)
Module Information for This Chapter
168(1)
References for More Information
168(1)
Directory Services
169(54)
What's a Directory?
169(1)
Finger: A Simple Directory Service
170(4)
The WHOIS Directory Service
174(2)
LDAP: A Sophisticated Directory Service
176(26)
ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces)
202(18)
Module Information for This Chapter
220(1)
References for More Information
220(3)
SQL Database Administration
223(28)
Interacting with an SQL Server from Perl
224(3)
Using the DBI Framework
227(5)
Using the ODBC Framework
232(3)
Server Documentation
235(6)
Database Logins
241(2)
Monitoring Server Health
243(6)
Module Information for This Chapter
249(1)
References for More Information
249(2)
Electronic Mail
251(42)
Sending Mail
251(6)
Common Mistakes in Sending Email
257(13)
Receiving Mail
270(21)
Module Information for This Chapter
291(1)
References for More Information
292(1)
Log Files
293(44)
Text Logs
293(1)
Binary Log Files
294(6)
Stateful and Stateless Data
300(2)
Disk Space Problems
302(7)
Log Analysis
309(26)
Module Information for This Chapter
335(1)
References for More Information
336(1)
Security and Network Monitoring
337(42)
Noticing Unexpected or Unauthorized Changes
338(8)
Noticing Suspicious Activities
346(7)
SNMP
353(9)
Danger on the Wire
362(9)
Preventing Suspicious Activities
371(5)
Module Information for This Chapter
376(1)
References for More Information
376(3)
A. The Five-Minute RCS Tutorial 379(3)
B. The Ten-Minute LDAP Tutorial 382(6)
C. The Eight-Minute XML Tutorial 388(5)
D. The Fifteen-Minute SQL Tutorial 393(12)
E. The Twenty-Minute SNMP Tutorial 405(14)
Index 419

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