http://www.devshed.com Administration - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:11:52 -0500 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:11:52 -0500 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:00:46 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Network-Booting-via-PXE-the-Basics/?kc=rss - Before we begin, let's find out what networking booting is all about. After that we will explain the theory behind PXE booting in a nutshell without getting into advanced technicalities whatsoever. We will also examine a few ready to run practical solutions. The main purpose of this article is to el...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Network-Booting-via-PXE-the-Basics/?kc=rss Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:00:48 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Scalix-Linux-Administrators-Guide/?kc=rss - Markus Feilner, the author of the book, is a Linux author, IT journalist, trainer, and consultant from Regensburg, Germany. He is currently employed as an editor for German Linux Magazine, where he is writing the Linux Technical Review column, as well as other articles on various topics, such as gro...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Scalix-Linux-Administrators-Guide/?kc=rss Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Network-Administration-with-FreeBSD-7/?kc=rss - Babak Farrokhi, the author of this book, has an extensive background related to UNIX operating systems. He has been a network engineer in the IT industry for more than 12 years. Since 1997, he has used FreeBSD on a daily basis. He has experience in system administration and networking (TCP/IP) ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Network-Administration-with-FreeBSD-7/?kc=rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:00:48 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Components-of-an-Information-Architecture/?kc=rss - Information Architecture Components It can be difficult to know exactly what components make up an information architecture. Users interact directly with some, while (as we saw above) others are so behind the scenes that users are unaware of their existence. In the next four chapters, well prese...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Components-of-an-Information-Architecture/?kc=rss Thu, 29 May 2008 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/The-Anatomy-of-an-Information-Architecture/?kc=rss - What well cover: Why its important (and difficult) to make an information architecture as tangible as possible Examples that help you visualize an information architecture from both the top down and the bottom up Ways of categorizing the components of an information architectur...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/The-Anatomy-of-an-Information-Architecture/?kc=rss Thu, 08 May 2008 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Configuring-LoadBalanced-Clusters/?kc=rss - Configuring the Load Balancer On lb, create the load balancer configuration file, /etc/ha.d/ldirectord.cf: checktimeout=10 checkinterval=2 autoreload=no logfile= quot;local0 quot; quiescent=no virtual=70.253.158.42:80 real=70.253.158.41:80 gate ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Configuring-LoadBalanced-Clusters/?kc=rss Thu, 01 May 2008 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/LoadBalanced-Clusters/?kc=rss - More than 10 years ago, people discovered they could connect multiple cheap machines to perform computing tasks that would normally require a mainframe or supercomputer. NASAs Beowulf cluster was an early example that is still in use today (http://www.beowulf.org). A Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikip...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/LoadBalanced-Clusters/?kc=rss Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/UNIX-Time-Format-Demystified/?kc=rss - UNIX time, which is sometimes referred to as POSIX time, is a relatively “simple” format that represents time using its very own system. Ive opted for the quotations around simple because, despite how its going to look at first glance, by the time you finish reading this article, I am sure that your...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/UNIX-Time-Format-Demystified/?kc=rss Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Making-Changes-in-the-CVS/?kc=rss - Committing Changes Changes to your sandbox files are not synchronized with the repository until you run the cvs commit command. This command is best run from the root directory of your sandbox, and it must be run from within the sandbox. Commit to the repository frequently. Rules of thumb for w...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Making-Changes-in-the-CVS/?kc=rss Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:30:46 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Building-Your-First-CVS-Repository/?kc=rss - Building Your First Repository CVS relies on a file-based database called the CVS repository. The repository contains all the historic data about your project, including each change that has been committed to the repository, as well as the user making each change. Your developers work from a sandb...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Building-Your-First-CVS-Repository/?kc=rss Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:00:46 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/CVS-Quickstart-Guide/?kc=rss - To help you get up to speed quickly using CVS, this chapter explains the most common CVS operations. The commands and examples in this chapter are based on standard situations and cover only the most common options. Future chapters go into more depth on each topic covered in this chapter. Most of ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/CVS-Quickstart-Guide/?kc=rss Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:01:00 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Authorizing-Users-in-Samba/?kc=rss - Group Mapping Remember that Samba exports Unix objects in a means that is palatable to Windows clients. In keeping with this philosophy, Unix groups are handled in a very similar fashion to Unix users. The underlying Unix group must already exist. Samba then associates a SID and name with that gro...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Authorizing-Users-in-Samba/?kc=rss Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:00:55 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Handling-User-Accounts-in-Samba/?kc=rss - passdb backend = ldapsam The third officially supported passdb module is the ldapsam backend. A complete discussion of LDAP is beyond the scope of this book. If you are interested in LDAP and directory services, a recommended resource is LDAP System Administration, by Gerald Carter (OReilly). Th...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Handling-User-Accounts-in-Samba/?kc=rss Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:00:49 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Authentication-in-Samba/?kc=rss - Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) are shared libraries that can be used in combination to allow an administrator to enforce a specific authentication security policy. For a complete discussion of PAM, first try searching your servers operating system doc...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Authentication-in-Samba/?kc=rss Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:00:58 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Accounts-Authentication-and-Authorization/?kc=rss - Authentication is proving that you are who you say you are. You do this every day, during such activities as printing a document or saving a file to a network drive. When things are working correctly, the steps taken by a server to authenticate a request are often taken for granted. You enter a pass...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Accounts-Authentication-and-Authorization/?kc=rss