Hack #1. Removing Unnecessary Services
Hack #2. Forgoing the Console Login
Hack #3. Common Boot Parameters
Hack #4. Creating a Persistent Daemon with init
Hack #5. n>&m: Swap Standard Output and Standard Error
Hack #6. Building Complex Command Lines
Hack #7. Working with Tricky Files in xargs
Hack #8. Immutable Files in ext2/ext3
Hack #9. Speeding Up Compiles
Hack #10. At Home in Your Shell Environment
Hack #11. Finding and Eliminating setuid/setgid Binaries
Hack #12. Make sudo Work Harder
Hack #13. Using a Makefile to Automate Admin Tasksh
Hack #14. Brute Forcing Your New Domain Name
Hack #15. Playing Hunt the Disk Hog
Hack #16. Fun with /proc
Hack #17. Manipulating Processes Symbolically with procps
Hack #18. Managing System Resources per Process
Hack #19. Cleaning Up after Ex-Users
Hack #20. Eliminating Unnecessary Drivers from the Kernel
Hack #21. Using Large Amounts of RAM
Hack #22. hdparm: Fine Tune IDE Drive Parameters
2. Revision Control
Hack #23. Getting Started with RCS
Hack #24. Checking Out a Previous Revision in RCS
Hack #25. Tracking Changes with rcs2log
Hack #26. Getting Started with CVS
Hack #27. CVS: Checking Out a Module
Hack #28. CVS: Updating Your Working Copy
Hack #29. CVS: Using Tags
Hack #30. CVS: Making Changes to a Module
Hack #31. CVS: Merging Files
Hack #32. CVS: Adding and Removing Files and Directories
Hack #33. CVS: Branching Development
Hack #34. CVS: Watching and Locking Files
Hack #35. CVS: Keeping CVS Secure
Hack #36. CVS: Anonymous Repositories
3.Backups
Hack #37. Backing Up with tar over ssh
Hack #38. Using rsync over ssh
Hack #39. Archiving with Pax
Hack #40. Backing Up Your Boot Sector
Hack #41. Keeping Parts of Filesystems in sync with rsync
Hack #42. Automated Snapshot-Style Incremental Backups with rsync
Hack #43. Working with ISOs and CDR/CDRWs
Hack #44. Burning a CD Without Creating an ISO File
4.Networking
Hack #45. Creating a Firewall from the Command Line of any Server
Hack #46. Simple IP Masquerading
Hack #47. iptables Tips & Tricks
Hack #48. Forwarding TCP Ports to Arbitrary Machines
Hack #49. Using Custom Chains in iptables
Hack #50. Tunneling: IPIP Encapsulation
Hack #51. Tunneling: GRE Encapsulation
Hack #52. Using vtun over ssh to Circumvent NAT
Hack #53. Automatic vtund.conf Generator
5.Monitoring
Hack #54. Steering syslog
Hack #55. Watching Jobs with watch
Hack #56. What's Holding That Port Open?
Hack #57. Checking On Open Files and Sockets with lsof
Hack #58. Monitor System Resources with top
Hack #59. Constant Load Average Display in the Titlebar
Hack #60. Network Monitoring with ngrep
Hack #61. Scanning Your Own Machines with nmap
Hack #62. Disk Age Analysis
Hack #63. Cheap IP Takeover
Hack #64. Running ntop for Real-Time Network Stats
Hack #65. Monitoring Web Traffic in Real Time with httptop
6.SSH
Hack #66. Quick Logins with ssh Client Keys
Hack #67. Turbo-mode ssh Logins
Hack #68. Using ssh-Agent Effectively
Hack #69. Running the ssh-Agent in a GUI
Hack #70. X over ssh
Hack #71. Forwarding Ports over ssh
7.Scripting
Hack #72. Get Settled in Quickly with movein.sh
Hack #73. Global Search and Replace with Perl
Hack #74. Mincing Your Data into Arbitrary Chunks (in bash)
Hack #75. Colorized Log Analysis in Your Terminal
8.Information Servers
Hack #76. Running BIND in a chroot Jail
Hack #77. Views in BIND 9
Hack #78. Setting Up Caching DNS with Authority for Local Domains
Hack #79. Distributing Server Load with Round-Robin DNS
Hack #80. Running Your Own Top-Level Domain
Hack #81. Monitoring MySQL Health with mtop
Hack #82. Setting Up Replication in MySQL
Hack #83. Restoring a Single Table from a Large MySQL Dump
Hack #84. MySQL Server Tuning
Hack #85. Using proftpd with a mysql Authentication Source
Hack #86. Optimizing glibc, linuxthreads, and the Kernel for a Super MySQL Server
Hack #87. Apache Toolbox
Hack #88. Display the Full Filename in Indexes
Hack #89. Quick Configuration Changes with IfDefine
Hack #90. Simplistic Ad Referral Tracking
Hack #91. Mimicking FTP Servers with Apache
Hack #92. Rotate and compress Apache Server Logs
Hack #93. Generating an SSL cert and Certificate Signing Request
Hack #94. Creating Your Own CA
Hack #95. Distributing Your CA to Client Browsers
Hack #96. Serving multiple sites with the same DocumentRoot
Hack #97. Delivering Content Based on the Query String Using mod_rewrite
Hack #98. Using mod_proxy on Apache for Speed
Hack #99. Distributing Load with Apache RewriteMap
Hack #100. Ultrahosting: Mass Web Site Hosting with Wildcards, Proxy, and Rewrite
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