Debian 7: System Administration Best Practices -- Table of Contents -- Debian 7: System Administration Best Practices -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Debian Basics for Administrators -- Linux distributions -- The three branches -- SLS -- RPM -- DPKG or DEB -- Other differences -- The Debian Project -- The social contract -- Constitution -- Policies -- Licensing -- What happened to Firefox? -- Repositories -- Debian environments -- Impact on administration -- Debian support -- Proprietary features -- Where to find installation help and information -- Summary -- 2. Filesystem Layout -- Partition tables -- Single or multiboot -- BIOS versus UEFI -- Boot code under BIOS -- Boot code under UEFI -- Filesystem types -- ext2, ext3, and ext4 -- Journaled File System -- SGI's XFS File System -- Reiser File System -- B-Tree File System -- Clustered formats -- Non-Linux formats -- Other Unix formats -- Choosing a format -- Partitioning -- Partitioning for backup and recovery -- Space-limiting partitions -- Disk management -- Logical Volume Management -- The swap partition -- Selecting a partitioning scheme -- Encryption -- Why encrypt? -- Disk encryption -- Directory encryption -- Choosing encryption -- Installing Debian -- Summary -- 3. Package Management -- Package managers -- dpkg and dselect -- Advanced Package Tool -- aptitude -- Synaptic -- Package selection and maintenance -- Configuring media or repositories -- The significance of the release name -- Selecting packages -- Updating your package cache.

Command-line selection -- Selection lists -- Meta packages -- A word about dependency resolution -- Removing packages -- Keeping current -- Automatic updates -- Foreign packages -- Alien -- Manual builds -- Upgrading your system -- Prior to the upgrade -- During the upgrade -- After the upgrade -- Summary -- 4. Basic Package Configuration -- Configuration files -- /etc/default -- /etc/ -- Initial configuration -- Configuration utilities -- dpkg-reconfigure -- gadmin -- Desktop configuration -- Other utilities -- Local configuration trends -- Local configuration files -- Configuration subdirectories -- Configuration advice -- Apache configuration -- Configuration files -- Enabling sites and modules -- Testing and activating the configuration -- Other examples -- Summary -- 5. System Management -- Startup and shutdown -- Debian run levels -- Dependency-based boot sequence -- Managing SysV scripts -- Third-party and local scripts -- Network administration -- The interfaces file -- Network Manager -- Combining methods -- Which method? -- Filesystem maintenance -- Partition maintenance -- Filesystem Check (FSCK) -- Partition resizing -- Backups -- Low-level backups -- File-level backups -- Backup utilities -- Choosing your solution -- System logging -- The logging facility -- Controlling the logs -- Monitoring the logs -- Display managers -- Where did my desktop go? -- GNOME -- KDE -- Other desktops -- Showing your best face -- Summary -- 6. Basic System Security -- User administration -- Default user group -- ACLs -- The root account -- Debian hardening packages -- Firewall tools -- IPTABLES -- Basic firewall design -- Inbound opens -- Outbound traffic -- Local loopback traffic -- The perimeter network -- Intrusion detection -- NIDS -- File Monitors -- System scanners -- A final word on remote logging -- Summary.

7. Advanced System Management -- Remote backups -- Amanda -- Bacula -- Other backup systems -- Beyond backups -- Configuration management -- Fully Automated Installation -- Puppet -- Other packages -- Clusters -- High Availability clusters -- Beowulf clusters -- Common tools -- Webmin -- Installing Webmin -- Using Webmin -- Webmin and Debian -- Webmin security -- Usermin -- Summary -- Index.