Perl for System Administration
Perl for System Administration Managing multi-platform environments with Perl By David N. Blank-Edelman
July 2000
Pages: 444

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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. System Administration Is a Craft

    2. How Perl Can Help

    3. This Book Will Show You How

    4. What You Need

    5. Locating and Installing Modules

    6. It's Not Easy Being Omnipotent

    7. References for More Information

  2. Chapter 2 Filesystems

    1. Perl to the Rescue

    2. Filesystem Differences

    3. Walking or Traversing the Filesystem

    4. Walking the Filesystem Using the File::Find Module

    5. Manipulating Disk Quotas

    6. Querying Filesystem Usage

    7. Module Information for This Chapter

    8. References for More Information

  3. Chapter 3 User Accounts

    1. Unix User Identity

    2. Windows NT/2000 User Identity

    3. Building an Account System to Manage Users

    4. Module Information for This Chapter

    5. References for More Information

  4. Chapter 4 User Activity

    1. MacOS Process Control

    2. NT/2000 Process Control

    3. Unix Process Control

    4. Tracking File and Network Operations

    5. Module Information for This Chapter

    6. References for More Information

  5. Chapter 5 TCP/IP Name Services

    1. Host Files

    2. NIS, NIS+, and WINS

    3. Domain Name Service (DNS)

    4. Module Information for This Chapter

    5. References for More Information

  6. Chapter 6 Directory Services

    1. What's a Directory?

    2. Finger: A Simple Directory Service

    3. The WHOIS Directory Service

    4. LDAP: A Sophisticated Directory Service

    5. ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces)

    6. Module Information for This Chapter

    7. References for More Information

  7. Chapter 7 SQL Database Administration

    1. Interacting with an SQL Server from Perl

    2. Using the DBI Framework

    3. Using the ODBC Framework

    4. Server Documentation

    5. Database Logins

    6. Monitoring Server Health

    7. Module Information for This Chapter

    8. References for More Information

  8. Chapter 8 Electronic Mail

    1. Sending Mail

    2. Common Mistakes in Sending Email

    3. Receiving Mail

    4. Module Information for This Chapter

    5. References for More Information

  9. Chapter 9 Log Files

    1. Text Logs

    2. Binary Log Files

    3. Stateful and Stateless Data

    4. Disk Space Problems

    5. Log Analysis

    6. Module Information for This Chapter

    7. References for More Information

  10. Chapter 10 Security and Network Monitoring

    1. Noticing Unexpected or Unauthorized Changes

    2. Noticing Suspicious Activities

    3. SNMP

    4. Danger on the Wire

    5. Preventing Suspicious Activities

    6. Module Information for This Chapter

    7. References for More Information

  1. Appendix A The Five-Minute RCS Tutorial

    1. References for More Information

  2. Appendix B The Ten-Minute LDAP Tutorial

    1. LDAP Data Organization

  3. Appendix C The Eight-Minute XML Tutorial

    1. XML Is a Markup Language

    2. XML Is Picky

    3. Two Key XML Terms

    4. Leftovers

  4. Appendix D The Fifteen-Minute SQL Tutorial

    1. Creating /Deleting Databases and Tables

    2. Inserting Data into a Table

    3. Querying Information

    4. Changing Table Information

    5. Relating Tables to Each Other

    6. SQL Stragglers

  5. Appendix E The Twenty-Minute SNMP Tutorial

    1. SNMP in Practice

  6. Colophon

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