Linux Practicals

Index

1. Switching Terminals( 2 3 )
2. Fdisk( 3 5 )
3. Format( 6 - 7 )
4. Runlevels( 8 - 8 )
5. Symlinks & Hardlinks( 9 16 )
6. Archiving & Compression( 17 28 )
7. Daemons&Process( 29 - 38 )
8. File Permissions( 39 41 )
9. Umask( 42 - 43 )
10. Administarative cmnds and Lowlevel cmnds( 44 - 44 )
11. Understanding UNIX / Linux file system( 45 - 49 )
12. FSTAB( 50 - 56 )
13. Bash( 57 - 63 )
14. Shell Scripting( 64 - 73 )
15. RPM( 74 - 76 )
16. UserAdministration( 77 - 83 )
17. PAM( 84 - 90 )
18. LVM( 91 - 98 )
19. The Linux Schedulers( 99 106 )
20. QUOTA( 107 110 )
21. Kernel Compilation( 111 119 )
22. Kernel Tuning( 120 128 )
23. Networking( 129 138 )
24. FTP( 139 145 )
25. NFS( 146 154 )
26. Network Info Service (NIS) ( 155 160 )
27. Installation of autofs( 161 162 )
28. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol( 163 171 )
29. TcpWrappers( 172 176 )
30. Xinetd( 177 179 )
31. SAMBA( 180 194 )
32. FIREWALL / IPTABLES( 195 212 )
33. DNS( 213 227 )
34. APACHE( 228 248 )
35. SendMail( 249 262 )
36. SQUID( 263 274 )
37. Vi/Vim Examples( 275 282 )

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 Linux Practicals
Switching Terminals

Linux have 6 ttys by default, which we call as vcs & driver

assigned to it is tty (/dev/tty*)
To switch from gui use CTRL ALT F1 & to switch between the
terminals use ALT -F2, F3...
To check current terminal use $ps command.

Basic Commands
$df -h -> same as my computer in windows
$fdsik -l -> list partition
$man <cmd> -> manual
$clear -> clear the screen
$^l -> clear the screen
$ls -> list content
$ls -l -> list content in long listing format
$ls -al -> list all subcontent in long listing format
$ll -> an alias for the above
$ls -R -> list content recursively
$l. -> list hidden files
$ls -F -> list content and classify them
$alias -> display all aliases for current user
$alias <statement> -> make alias eg alias c='clear'
$unalias <alias> -> remove alias eg unalias c
$exit -> log out from the system
$logout -> log out from the system
$^d -> log out from the system
$tree -> list content in a tree (hierarchial) diagram
$tree -d -> list subdirectories only - no files
$tree -p -> list content with their permissions
$cd <directory> -> change directory to...
$cd .. -> change to parent directory
$cd - -> change to previous directory
$cd -> change to home directory
$cd ~ -> change to home directory
$pushd -> change dir with pwd
$cat -> display a content of a file
$pwd -> print work (current) directory
$pwd -P -> print parent working dir of this symlink dir
$mkdir <directory> -> make directory
$mkdir -p <directory> -> make parent directories also if it does
not exist
$touch -> make a 0 byte file if it does not exist
$cp -> copy (for files)
$cp -a -> copy (for directories)
$cp -p -> copy and preserve date and time
$mv -> move OR rename
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$rmdir -> remove empty directory
$rm -> remove (for files)
$rm -f -> remove forcefully ( " " )
$rm -r -> remove recursively (for directories)
$rm -rf -> remove recursively and forcefully ( " " )
$cat -> display content of the file
$cat -n -> display content of the file and number the
lines
$cal -> display calendar for current month
$date -> display system date and time
$date -s '<value>' -> change system date and time in mm/dd/yy
$hwclock -> display the hardware clock
$hwclock hctosys -> set the system time from the hardware clock
$ln -s -> make a soft/sym/symbolic link
$ln -> make a hard link
$history -> display the list of the last 1000 commands
$! 100 -> Run command 100 in history
$vi -> text editor
$vimtutor -> vi manual withexercise
$pico -> pico manual withexercise
$mcedit -> mcedit manual withexercise
$joe -> joe manual withexercise
$aspell -c <filename> -> check the spelling in the file
$elinks -> check the web links
$file -> display the type of file
$which -> display the path of the binary
$whereis -> display all paths
$hostname -> display system name with domain
$id -> display id info of current user
$id -u -> display user id of current user
$id -un -> display username of current user
$id -g -> display group id of current user
$id -gn -> display groupname of current user
$uptime -> display for how long the system has been
running
$tty -> display current terminal number
$users -> display no. of users currently logged in
$whoami -> display username of current user
$who -> display users logged in the system with
their
respective terminals and time since logged in
$who am I -> display current user, terminal and uptime
$w -> display is details which files are open on
which terminal

http://www.oraclehome.co.uk/linux-commands.htm
$mkdir -p /opt/funny/test
$cd /opt/funny/test -- absolute path
$cd /opt/funny
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$pwd
/opt/funny
$cd test - relative path
Fdisk
Partitioning with fdisk

This section shows you how to actually partition your hard drive
with the fdisk utility. Linux allows only 4 primary partitions. You
can have a much larger number of logical partitions by sub-dividing
one of the primary partitions. Only one of the primary partitions
can be sub-divided.

Examples:

1. Four primary partitions

2. Mixed primary and logical partitions

fdiskusage

fdisk is started by typing (as root) fdisk device at the command

prompt. device might be something like /dev/hda or /dev/sda (see
Section 2.1.1). The basic fdisk commands you need are:

p print the partition table

n create a new partition
d delete a partition
q quit without saving changes
w write the new partition table and exit

Changes you make to the partition table do not take effect until
you issue the write (w) command. Here is a sample partition table:

Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hdb1 * 1 184 370912+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 185 368 370944 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 369 552 370944 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 553 621 139104 82 Linux swap

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The first line shows the geometry of your hard drive. It may not be
physically accurate, but you can accept it as though it were. The
hard drive in this example is made of 32 double-sided platters with
one head on each side (probably not true). Each platter has 621
concentric tracks. A 3-dimensional track (the same track on all
disks) is called a cylinder. Each track is divided into 63 sectors.
Each sector contains 512 bytes of data. Therefore the block size in
the partition table is 64 heads * 63 sectors * 512 bytes
er...divided by 1024. (See 4 for discussion on problems with this
calculation.) The start and end values are cylinders.

$fdisk /dev/hdxx
n create a new partition
press <-| at first cylinder
define size +100M at Last cylinder
w write and quit
$sync
$partprobe -s /dev/hdxx
- rereads the partition table and updates the kernel table.
-s - to show the output

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 Format
for ext2 format use $mke2fs for ext3 use $mke2fs -j
$ mke2fs j /dev/hdxx
-j stands for journaling as ext3 is a journaling filesystem.
$mkdir /newdir
$mount /dev/hdxx /newdir
for permanent mount use fstab
$vi /etc/fstab
Append - /dev/hdxx /mnt ext3 defaults 0 0
fstab is 9th out of the 10 most critical and important
configuration files which is stored in /etc directory, where all
the configuration files are stored.
fstab stands for "File System TABle" and this file contains
information of hard disk partitions and removeable devices in the
system. It contains infor-mation of where the partitions and
removeable devices are mounted and which device drivers are used
for mounting them, which filesystem they are using and what
permissions are assigned to them.

1st field device

2nd field mountpoint
3rd field filesystem
4th filed permisson
5th field backup for sixth field
6th field fsck sequence (same as chkdsk in windows)

Task

create 100mb partition for Linux.

Follow steps same as above
ext3 is a journaling which maintains record in its journal.

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Fast recovery & recovery successful
Ext2 doesnt maintains journal.Slow recovery & no guarantee.

Task

create 100000kb partition for ext2.

Follow steps same as above.

Task

create 96mb partition for windows.

Follow steps same as above.

Mount all the created partitions under fstab.

Ext2vsExt3
Atsomepointinyourinstall,you'llprobablywanttoswitchfilesystemtypes.Inthebaseinstall,
you'reonlygivenachoiceofext2(shortforext2fs,or``secondextendedfilesystem,''whichisthe
``standard''UNIXfilesystem7.Ext3fs8isthesameasext2,butprovidesjournaling.Forthoseas
sketchyonfilesystemtypesasIam,itseemstobeprettybasic.IntheREADMEontheoriginalext3
downloadpage,theauthoranswersthejournalingquestion:

Q: What is journaling?
A: It means you don't have to fsck after a crash. Basically.

This is useful, because it means that every time your screen whites out
and crashes while choosing the right video card (Section 1.2.1), you
don't have to sit through an entire filesystem check of every inode. The
filesystem still fscks itself every X mounts or Y days, but doesn't put
you through the entire wait every time you crash it.To convert
partition,s to the ext3 filesystem, you need to cleanly unmount them,
boot something else (like the Debian CD you installed from -- see
Section 6.2 on how to do this), and then, on a console, do:

tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX

wherein /dev/hdaX is the partition you want to add journaling to (hence

the `-j' flag).Don't forget to modify the lines in your /etc/fstab to
reflect that the partitions in question are to be mounted as ext3, not
ext2. When cleanly unmounted, they can still be mounted as ext2, but the
whole point of changing them was so they wouldn't be.

That's it. When you reboot, your partitions should come up as ext3.

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 Runlevels

Red Hat Linux/Fedora runlevels ID Description

0 Halt

1 Single-User mode

2 Multi-User mode with network enabled, but most network services

disabled

3 Multi-User mode, console logins only

4 Not used/User-definable

5 Multi-User mode, with display manager as well as console logins

6 Reboot

Symlinks & Hardlinks

Files are arranged in directories (or folders if you prefer that

term), and each file can be reached through a series of directories
and sub-directories from the root - correct? Yes ... BUT ... there
are some times that the same file can be reached through several
names, and on Unix and Linux systems this is known as a "link".
There are two ways a link can be set up.

Hard Link
A Hard Link is where a file has two names
which are both on an equal weighting, and
both of the file names in the "inode
table" point directly to the blocks on the
disc that contain the data. See diagram to
the left.

You set up a hard link with an ln command

without options - if the file ab.txt
already exists and you want to give an
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additional name (hard link) to it, you'll write ln ab.txt cd.txt
and then both names will have equal ranking. The only way you'll
know that there's a link there is by doing a long listing and
you'll see a link count of 2 rather than 1, and if you need to find
out what's linked to what, use the -i option to ls.

Symbolic Link
A Symbolic Link is where a file has one main name, but there's an
extra entry in the file name table that refers any accesses back to
the main name. This is slighly slower at runtime that a hard link,
but it's more flexible and much more often used in day to day admin
work.

Symbolic links are set up using the ln command with the -s option -
so for example
ln -s ab.txt cd.txt
will set up a new name cd.txt that points to the (existing) file
ab.txt. If you do a log listing (ls -l) of a directory that
contains a symbolic link, you'll be told that it's a symbolic link
with an "l" in the first column, and you'll be told where the file
links to in the file name column. Very easy to spot!

Soft Links(Symbolic Links) :

1.Links have different inode numbers.
2. ls -l command shows all links with second column value 1 and the
link points to original file.
3. Link has the path for original file and not the contents.
4.Removing soft link doesn't affect anything but removing original
file the link becomes dangling link which points to nonexistant
file.
In Softlink Inode is diff and the linked file will b a shortcut of
first file
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Hard Links :
1. All Links have same inode number.
2.ls -l command shows all the links with the link column(Second)
shows No. of links.
3. Links have actual file contents
4.Removing any link just reduces the link count but doesn't affect
other links.
In Hardlink Inode is same and both are independent

Soft link can create directories but hard link can't. Hard links
created within that particular file system but soft link cross that
file system

Hard links canot cross partition

A single inode number use to represent file in each file system.
All hard links
based upon inode number.

So linking across file system will lead into confusing references

for UNIX or
Linux. For example, consider following scenario

* File system: /home

* Directory: /home/sadhiq
* Hard link: /home/sadhiq/file2
* Original file: /home/sadhiq/file1

Now you create a hard link as follows:

$ touch file1
$ ln file1 file2
$ ls -l

Output:

-rw-r--r-- 2 sadhiq sadhiq 0 2006-01-30 13:28 file1

-rw-r--r-- 2 sadhiq sadhiq 0 2006-01-30 13:28 file2

Now just see inode of both file1 and file2:

$ ls -i file1
782263

$ ls -i file2
782263

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As you can see inode number is same for hard link file called file2
in inode
table under /home file system. Now if you try to create a hard link
for /tmp
file system it will lead to confusing references for UNIX or Linux
file system.
Is that a link no. 782263 in the /home or /tmp file system? To
avoid this
problem UNIX or Linux does not allow creating hard links across
file system
boundaries. Continue reading rest of the Understanding Linux file
system series

Practical

$mkdir /opt/new-file
$mkdir /usr/local/link-file
$vi /opt/newfile/abc
Append some content & save the above file
Now create a softlink for abc as xyz under /usr/local/link-file
$pushd /usr/local/link-file
$pwd
$ln -s /opt/new-file/abc xyz
Or
If u want to create symlink as from /home then
$pushd /home
$ln -s /opt/new-file/abc /usr/loal/link-file/xyz

Now check with the following & also note symlink files always have
777 perm
$ll | grep ^l
Also chk the size of both file and its self expalinatory
Now
$Append some data in xyz file u will get the same under abc
Now try removing the parent file in our case abc
$rm rf /opt/new-file/abc
Now verify the symblink
$ll /usr/local/link-file/
Your file has broken symlink so its called orphaned

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So when ever u delete a parent file it will effect & if softlink is
deleted there is no effect in softlinks
Softlink files have different inodes of parent
Softlink can also cross partitions.

Now what if u want run a binary from different path and with
different name
$which mount
$ln s /sbin/mount /opt/mapping
$pushd /opt/
$./mapping

$ln s /bin/pwd /usr/bin/prnt-work-dir

Now u can run the follow for pwd
$prnt-work-dir

$mkdir /opt/hard-link
$pushd /opt/link-file
Create a new file name file1 and aapend data
$echo This is an new file > file1
$cat file1

Now create a hard link from current path file1 to file2

$ln file1 /opt/hard-link/file2
Now try deleting and appending and try u done as above for soft
link
Hardlinks are type of backup if parent & child is deleted no effect
Hardlinks have same inode numbers
Harslinks cannot cross parttitons, Also try crossing partitions

Also try creating 2 to 3 links for a single parent file in softlink

and hardlink.

More

17. Hard Links and Symbolic Links

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Today we're going to test your virtual imagination ability! You're
probably familiar with shortcuts in Microsoft Windows or aliases on
the Mac. Linux has something, or actually some things similar,
called hard links and symbolic links.

Symbolic links (also called symlinks or softlinks) most resemble

Windows shortcuts. They contain a pathname to a target file. Hard
links are a bit different. They are listings that contain
information about the file. Linux files don't actually live in
directories. They are assigned an inode number, which Linux uses to
locate files. So a file can have multiple hardlinks, appearing in
multiple directories, but isn't deleted until there are no
remaining hardlinks to it. Here are some other differences between
hardlinks and symlinks:

1. You cannot create a hardlink for a directory.

2. If you remove the original file of a hardlink, the link will
still show you the content of the file.
3. A symlink can link to a directory.
4. A symlink, like a Windows shortcut, becomes useless when you
remove the original file.

Hardlinks

Let's do a little experiment to demonstrate the case. Make a new

directory called Test and then move into it. to do that, type:

$ mkdir Test
$ cd Test
Then make a file called FileA:
$ vi FileA
Press the I key to enter Insert mode:
i
Then type in some funny lines of text (like "Why did the chicken
cross the road?") and save the file by typing:
Esc
ZZ
So, you made a file called FileA in a new directory called "Test"
in your /home. It contains an old and maybe not so funny joke. Now,
let's make a hardlink to FileA. We'll call the hardlink FileB.
$ ln FileA FileB
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Then use the "i" argument to list the inodes for both FileA and its
hardlink. Type:
$ ls -il FileA FileB
This is what you get:
1482256 -rw-r--r-- 2 sadhiq sadhiq 21 May 5 15:55 FileA
1482256 -rw-r--r-- 2 sadhiq sadhiq 21 May 5 15:55 FileB
You can see that both FileA and FileB have the same inode number
(1482256). Also both files have the same file permissions and the
same size. Because that size is reported for the same inode, it
does not consume any extra space on your HD!
Next, remove the original FileA:
$ rm FileA
And have a look at the content of the "link" FileB:
$ cat FileB
You will still be able to read the funny line of text you typed.
Hardlinks are cool.

Symlinks

Staying in the same test directory as above, let's make a symlink

to FileB. Call the symlink FileC:
$ ln -s FileB FileC
Then use the i argument again to list the inodes.
$ ls -il FileB FileC
This is what you'll get:

1482256 -rw-r--r-- 1 sadhiq sadhiq 21 May 5 15:55 FileB

1482226 lrwxrwxrwx 1 sadhiq sadhiq 5 May 5 16:22 FileC -> FileB

You'llnoticetheinodesaredifferentandthesymlinkgota"l"beforetherwxrwxrwx.Thelinkhas
differentpermissionsthantheoriginalfilebecauseitisjustasymboliclink.Itsrealcontentisjusta
stringpointingtotheoriginalfile.Thesizeofthesymlink(5)isthesizeofitsstring.(The">FileB"
attheendshowsyouwherethelinkpointsto.

Nowlistthecontents:

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$ cat FileB
$ cat FileC

They will show the same funny text.

Now if we remove the original file:

$ rm FileB

and check the Test directory:

$ ls

You'll see the symlink FileC is still there, but if you try to list
the contents:

$ cat FileC
It will tell you that there is no such file or directory. You can
still list the inode. Typing:

$ ls -il FileC
will still give you:
1482226 lrwxrwxrwx 1 sadhiq sadhiq 5 May 5 16:22 FileC -> FileB

But the symlink is obsolete because the original file was removed,
as were all the hard links. So the file was deleted even though the
symlink remains. (Hope you're still following.)
OK. The test is over, so you can delete the Test directory:
$ cd ..
$ rm -rf Test (r stands for recursive and f is for force)
Note: Be cautious using "rm -rf"; it's very powerful. If someone
tells you to do "rm -rf /" as root, you might loose all your files
and directories on your / partition! Not good advice.
Now you know how to create (and remove) hardlinks and symlinks to
make it easier to access files and run programs. See you on the
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 Archiving & Compression
Archiving means that you take 10 files and combine them into one
file, with no difference in size. If you start with 10 100KB files
and archive them, the resulting single file is 1000KB. On the other
hand, if you compress those 10 files, you might find that the
resulting files range from only a few kilobytes to close to the
original size of 100KB, depending upon the original file type.

ll of the archive and compression formats in this chapter zip,

gzip, bzip2, and tar are popular, but
Zip
zip is probably the world's most widely used format. That's because
of its almost universal use on Windows, but zip and unzip are well
supported among all major (and most minor) operating systems,

Gzip

gzip was designed as an open-source replacement for an older Unix

program, compress. It's found on virtually every Unix-based system
in the world, including Linux and Mac OS X, but it is much less
common on Windows. If you're sending files back and forth to users
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of Unix-based machines, gzip is a safe choice.

Bzip2

The bzip2 command is the new kid on the block. Designed to

supersede gzip, bzip2 creates smaller files, but at the cost of
speed. That said, computers are so fast nowadays that most users
won't notice much of a difference between the times it takes gzip
or bzip2 to compress a group of files.

Practical
zip both archives and compresses files, thus making it great for
sending multiple files as email attachments, backing up items, or
for saving disk space.

Create
$mkdir -p /opt/test/zip_dir;cd /opt/test/zip_dir
Append man pages to a file
$man ls > file-ls;cat /etc/fstab > file-fstab;cat
/root/anaconda.cfg > file-anaconda
$ls -lh
$ls -al
Zip the files to man-file.zip
$zip man-file.zip *
$ls -lF

$ man ls > file-ls.txt;cat /etc/fstab > file.txt;cat

/root/anaconda.cfg > file-anaconda.txt;man fdisk > file1.cfg;man
fstab > fstab.cfg;man man > man.cfg
Try compressing the files created using zip and verify the size of
moby.zip files
$ zip -0 moby.zip1 *.txt
$ ls -l
$ zip -1 moby.zip2 *.cfg
$ ls -l
$ zip -9 moby.zip3 *.cfg
$ ls -l

You can also try

$alias zip='zip -9'

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Create backup dir under mnt $mkdir/mnt/backup

Copy /opt/test contents with rsync

$rsync -parv/opt/test/* /mnt/backup/

Exclude moby.zip under /mnt/backup and create backup.zip under

/usr/local/
$zip -r /usrlocal/backup.zip /mnt/backup -x
"/mnt/backup/zip_dir/moby.zip1"

Change dir to /usr/local by pushd cmd (man pushd)

$pushd /usr/local/

Try Password protected zip

$ zip -P 12345678 backup.zip *.txt

$ zip -e backup.zip *.txt

$unzip l
$unzip --ql backup.zip
verbose
unzip -v moby2.zip

list zipped files

$ unzip -l moby3.zip

List type
$ unzip -t moby2.zip

Now try any the following same as zip under any dir

gzip paradise_lost.txt
$ ls -l

Not good. Instead, output to a file.

$ ls -l
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$ gzip -c paradise_lost.txt > paradise_lost.txt.gz
$ gzip -c -1 moby-dick.txt > moby-dick.txt.gz
$ ls -l
$ gzip -c -9 moby-dick.txt > moby-dick.txt.gz
$ ls -l
$ gzip -t paradise_lost.txt.gz
$ gunzip -c paradise_lost.txt.gz > paradise_lost.txt
$ bzip2 moby-dick.txt
$ ls -l
$ bzip2 -c moby-dick.txt > moby-dick.txt.bz2
$ ls -l
$ bzip2 -c -1 moby-dick.txt > moby-dick.txt.bz2
$ bzip2 -c -9 moby-dick.txt > moby-dick.txt.bz2
$ ls -l
$ bunzip2 moby-dick.txt.bz2
$ bunzip2 -c moby-dick.txt.bz2 > moby-dick.txt
$ bunzip2 -t paradise_lost.txt.gz

Get the Best Compression Possible with zip

-[0-9]
It's possible to adjust the level of compression that zip uses when
it does its job. The zip command uses a scale from 0 to 9, in which
0 means "no compression at all" (which is like tar, as you'll see
later), 1 means "do the job quickly, but don't bother compressing
very much," and 9 means "compress the heck out of the files, and I
don't mind waiting a bit longer to get the job done." The default
is 6, but modern computers are fast enough that it's probably just
fine to use 9 all the time.
In tabular format, the results look like this:

Book zip -0 zip -1 zip -9

Moby-Dick 0% 54% 61%
Paradise Lost 0% 50% 56%
Job 0% 58% 65%
Total (in bytes) 1848444 869946 747730

Password-Protect Compressed Zip Archives

-P
-e

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The Zip program allows you to password-protect your Zip archives
using the -P option. You shouldn't use this option. It's completely
insecure, as you can see in the following example (the actual
password is 12345678):
unzip
Expanding a Zip archive isn't hard at all. To create a zipped
archive, use the zip command; to expand that archive, use the unzip
command.

Archive with Tar

Archive and Compress Files with tar and gzip

-zcvf
If you look back at "Archive and Compress Files Using gzip" and
"Archive and Compress Files Using bzip2" and think about what was
discussed there, you'll probably start to figure out a problem.
What if you want to compress a directory that contains 100 files,
contained in various subdirectories? If you use gzip or bzip2 with
the -r (for recursive) option, you'll end up with 100 individually
compressed files, each stored neatly in its original subdirectory.
This is undoubtedly not what you want. How would you like to attach
100 .gz or .bz2 files to an email? Yikes!
That's where tar comes in. First you'd use tar to archive the
directory and its contents (those 100 files inside various
subdirectories) and then you'd use gzip or bzip2 to compress the
resulting tarball. Because gzip is the most common compression
program used in concert with tar, we'll focus on that.
You could do it this way:

$mkdir -p /mnt/common/moby-dick
$cd /mnt/common/moby-dick
$ man ls > file-ls.txt;cat /etc/fstab > file.txt;cat
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/root/anaconda.cfg > file-anaconda.txt;man fdisk > file1.cfg;man
fstab > fstab.cfg;man man > man.cfg
$cd ..
$pwd
/mnt/common/

$ ls -l moby-dick/*
$ tar -cf moby1.tar moby-dick/ | gzip -c > moby1.tar.gz
$ ls -l

That method works, but it's just too much typing! There's a much
easier way that should be your default. It involves two new options
for tar: -z (or --gzip), which invokes gzip from within tar so you
don't have to do so manually, and -v (or --verbose), which isn't
required here but is always useful, as it keeps you notified as to
what tar is doing as it runs.

$ ls -l moby-dick/*
$ ls -l

The usual extension for a file that has had the tar and then the
gzip commands used on it is .tar.gz; however, you could use .tgz
and .tar.gzip if you like.

Note - It's entirely possible to use bzip2 with tar instead of

gzip. Your command would look like this (note the -j option, which
is where bzip2 comes in):

$tar cvzf moby.tar.gz moby-dick

$ tar -jcvf moby.tar.bz2 moby-dick/

In that case, the extension should be .tar.bz2, although you may

also use .tar.bzip2, .tbz2, or .tbz. Yes, it's very confusing that
using gzip or bzip2 might both result in a file ending with .tbz.
This is a strong argument for using anything but that particular
extension to keep confusion to a minimum.
Test Files That Will Be Untarred and Uncompressed

$ tar jvtf moby.tar.bz2

Before you take apart a tarball (whether or not it was also

compressed using gzip), it's a really good idea to test it. First,
you'll know if the tarball is corrupted, saving yourself hair
pulling when files don't seem to work. Second, you'll know if the
person who created the tarball thoughtfully tarred up a directory
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containing 100 files, or instead thoughtlessly tarred up 100
individual files, which you're just about to spew all over your
desktop.
To test your tarball (once again assuming it was also zipped using
gzip), use the -t (or --list) option.

$ tar -zvtf moby.tar.gz

This tells you the permissions, ownership, file size, and time for
each file. In addition, because every line begins with moby-dick/,
you can see that you're going to end up with a directory that
contains within it all the files and subdirectories that accompany
the tarball, which is a relief.
Be sure that the -f is the last option because after that you're
going to specify the name of the .tar.gz file. If you don't, tar
complains:

$ tar -zvft moby.tar.gz

tar: You must specify one of the '-Acdtrux' options
Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.

Now that you've ensured that your .tar.gz file isn't corrupted,
it's time to actually open it up, as you'll see in the following
section.
Note - If you're testing a tarball that was compressed using bzip2,
just use this command instead:

$ tar -jvtf moby.tar.bz2

Untar and Uncompress Files

-zxvf

To create a .tar.gz file, you used a set of options: -zcvf. To

untar and uncompress the resulting file, you only make one
substitution: -x (or --extract) for -c (or --create).
$ ls -l
$ tar -zxvf moby.tar.gz
$ ls -l

Make sure you always test the file before you open it, as covered
in the previous section, "Test Files That Will Be Untarred and
Uncompressed." That means the order of commands you should run will
look like this:
$ tar -zvtf moby.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf moby.tar.gz
Note - If you're opening a tarball that was compressed using bzip2,
just use this command instead:
$ tar -jxvf moby.tar.bz2

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Repeat with different path

$ tar cvf /mnt/backup/sam.tar /opt/test/zip_dir/*

Archive & compress with gzip
$ tar cvf /mnt/backup/ramu.tar.gz /opt/test/zip_dir/*
$ pushd /mnt/backup
List before extracting
$ tar tvf ramu.tar.gz

Understand the following

$ mkdir ramu;tar zxvf ramu.tar.gz ramu/
$ ls ramu/
$ rm ramu/*

Also try and understand

$ cat ramu.tar.gz | gunzip -d | tar -xvf /mnt/backup/ramu
$ ls /mnt/backup/ramu/
$ rm -rf /mnt/backup/ramu/*
$ gzcat ramu.tar.gz | tar -xvf - /mnt/backup/ramu

Finding files and archiving them

You can make a tarball of only certain types of files from a
directory with the following one-liner:
$mkdir /mnt/common/test
$ find /mnt/common/moby-dick/ -name "*.txt" | xargs tar -zcpf
reports.tar.gz
$ find /mnt/common/moby-dick/ -name "*.txt" | xargs tar -jcpf
reports.tar.bz2

Now check
untar in a different directory
If you've got a gzipped tarball and you want to untar it in a
directory other than the one you're in, do the following:
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$ cd /mnt/backup
$ zcat reports.tar.gz | ( cd ./otherdir; tar zxvf - )
$ ls
Understand the above cmd , note -: - is used in after the
arguments given to tar.
Extract individual files from a tarball
If you need a file that you've put into a tarball and you don't
want to extract the whole file, you can do the following.
First, get a list of the files and find the one you want
$ cd /mnt/common/moby-dick
$ tar -zltf moby1.tar.gz
Then extract the one you want
$ tar zxvf moby1.tar.gz file-anaconda.txt

Backup everything with tar

To make a backup of everything in a particular directory, first do
this
$ cd /mnt/common/moby-dick/
$ ls -a > backup.all
If you don't really want *everything*, you can also edit backup.all
and get rid of things you don't want
To make the tarball, just do this:
$ tar -cvf newtarfile.tar `cat backup.all`
(remember, those are backtics)

Extracting Specific Files

Extract a file called etc/default/sysstat from config.tar.gz
tarball:
$ tar cvzf /opt/test/config.tar.gz /mnt/backup/ramu
$ tar -ztvf config.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf config.tar.gz <any file>
$ tar -xvf {tarball.tar} {path/to/file}
Some people prefers following syntax:
$ tar --extract --file={tarball.tar} {file}

Extract a directory called css from cbz.tar:

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$ tar --extract --file=cbz.tar css
Wildcard based extracting
You can also extract those files that match a specific globbing
pattern (wildcards). For example, to extract from cbz.tar all files
that begin with pic, no matter their directory prefix, you could
type:

Note before attempting the following you have to create tar files
as cbz.tar with he files you are going to extract.
$ tar -xf cbz.tar --wildcards --no-anchored 'pic*'

To extract all php files, enter:

$ tar -xf cbz.tar --wildcards --no-anchored '*.php'

-x: instructs tar to extract files.

-f: specifies filename / tarball name.
-v: Verbose (show progress while extracting files).
-j : filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2
files.
-z: filter archive through gzip, use to decompress .gz files.
--wildcards: instructs tar to treat command line arguments as
globbing patterns.
--no-anchored: informs it that the patterns apply to member
names after any / delimiter.

Have you ever seen this error when using tar?

$ tar -czf etc.tgz /etc
Removing leading `/' from member names
Tar is removing the leading / from the archive file, and warning
you about it. Although you can redirect STDERR to /dev/null, doing
so can result in missed errors. Instead, use tar with the -P or
--absolute-names switch. They do the same thing: leave the
leading / in the archived files.
$ tar -czPf etc.tgz /etc
When you untar the archive without -P, the leading / will still
equate to your current working directory. Use the -P when untarring

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to restore from archive to the absolute path name. For example:
The following creates ./etc (dot, slash, etc)
$ tar -xzf etc.tgz
This overwrites /etc (slash, etc)!
$ tar -xzPf etc.tgz

PATH is an environmental variable in Linux and other Unix-like

operating systems that tells the shell which directories to search
for executable files (i.e., ready-to-run programs) in response to
commands issued by a user. It increases both the convenience and
the safety of such operating systems and is widely considered to be
the single most important environmental variable.

Environmental variables are a class of variables (i.e., items whose

values can be changed) that tell the shell how to behave as the
user works at the command line (i.e., in a text-only mode) or with
shell scripts (i.e., short programs written in a shell programming
language). A shell is a program that provides the traditional,
text-only user interface for Unix-like operating systems; its
primary function is to read commands that are typed in at the
command line and then execute (i.e., run) them.

Practical - Setting Path

Login as root
$id
$echo $PATH
$useradd john
$passwd john
$su - john
$id
Verify john's PATH
$echo $PATH
you cant find :/sbin:/usr/sbin so u cant run cmnd's fdisk,
shred under the same.
$fdisk -l
will get command not found.

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So u can set path, but it's temporary for the shell.
$PATH=$PATH=:/sbin:/usr/sbin

To set under environment run

$export PATH
For permanent
you can locate the above two cmnds under /etc/profile file,
which run's always after login.
Now chk you will get the above added dir under johns path.
$echo $PATH

Now try
$ fdisk -l
Note-: The cmd is executed but fdisk binary will work only by
uid 0 (root), bcoz it's programmed like that.
So search for the cmd in /sbin & /usr/sbin , which can run by
other uid's.

Now create a testscript under /opt and execute the script

$vi /opt/testscript
#Append the following
echo THIS IS MY SCRIPT
#Save
$cd /opt
set execute permisson
$chmod +x /opt/testscript
$./testscript # (./ means current path execution)

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But what if u want to run the script from any other directories
under your filesystem hiriearchy.

Then set the /opt dir to the users path as mentioned above or
copy the script under the following PATH . (which is already
set)
set. For eg-:
$PATH=$PATH:/opt
$cd /
$testscript
or
$cp /opt/testscript /bin or /usr/local/bin etc...
Now try running the script
$cd /
$testscript

Daemons&Process

Application Daemon are those which can be killed & will have no
effect to the sysytem

$ kill -15 <appd-pid>

For eg. firefox, openoffice, X server, etc...

System Daemons are those which can be killed & will effect the
system.
$ kill -9 <sysd-pid>

For eg init, kerneld, ksoftirqd, khelper, kthread, kblockd

OBJECTIVES
Defining a process
Process states
Process management
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 Job control
System Information
Performance Related Information

What is a Process?
A process has many components and properties
exec thread
PID
priority
memory context
environment
file descriptors
security credentials

How Processes Are Created

One process forks a child, pointing to the same pages of memory,
and marking the area as read-only.Then, the child execs the new
command, causing a copy-on-write fault, thus copying to a new area
of memory. A process can exec, without forking. The child maintains
the process ID of the parent.

Process Ancestry
init is the first process started at boot time - always has PID 1.
Except init, every process has a parent.
Processes can be both a parent and a child at the same time.
Understand the Multiuser Environment.

One of the goals of UNIX was to enable a number of users to use the
system simultaneously (multiuser capability). Because several users
might also want to use several different programs simultaneously,
mechanisms must be available to allow these programs to run
simultaneously (multitasking capability).
The implementation of a multiuser and multitasking system appears
to be simultaneous in a single processor system, but this is only
possible in a multiprocessor system.

Even in a single-processor system, advantages can be gained through

multitasking because waiting times for input or output from
processes can be used for other processes.

UNIX implements preemptive multitaskingeach process is allowed a

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maximum time with which it can work. When this time has expired,
the operating system takes processor time away from the process and
assigns it to another process waiting to run. Other operating
systems (such as versions older than the MAC OS version X) do not
intervene in this process cycle. Instead, control over the
processor must be released by the running process before another
process can run.

This can lead to one process hijacking the processor, leaving other
processes without processing time and blocking the system. The
operating system coordinates access to the resources available in
the system (hard drives, tapes, interfaces). If there is
competition among processes, e.g., for access to a tape device,
only one process can be granted access. The others must be
rejected. This coordination task is very complex and no operating
system is able to implement an ideal solution. The classic problem
involves a situation in which two or more processes exclusively
need the same resources, as illustrated in the following resource
conflict:

The following describes the resource conflict:

Process A needs resources Res.1 and Res.2.
Process B needs resources Res.2 and Res.1.
Process A has received access to Res.1 and would now also like
access to Res.2. In the meantime, however, B has already gained
access to Res.2 and, in turn, would like access to Res.1 as well.

If these two processes wait until what they need is available,

nothing more will happen-they are deadlocked.

Multithreading is an extension of multitasking, and helps solve

this problem. In multithreading, a number of parts independent from
one another (threads) can be produced within a process.

Multithreading increases the level of parallel processes with each

thread needing to be administered, which makes the use of a
multiprocessor system more valuable.

A clear distinction should be made here between programs and

processes: as a rule, a program exists only once in the system, but
there can be several processes that perform the same program.If a
number of users are active, both programs and processes can be used
independently of one another (such as a program used to display
directories).

Processes and Multitasking

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Terminology can be confusing

Multiuser: system can simultaneously service more than one

online terminal
Multiprogramming: the system can execute more than one program at
the same time
Multitasking: system can execute two or more tasks at the same
time

In common usage, these all refer to the same thing

Multitasking Operating Systems

Multitasking OSs are designed to perform a complex juggling trick
They must:
Allocate resources, such as CPU cycles and memory, and assign
priorities so each process receives adequate attention
Higher priority jobs need more or larger CPU time-slices without
neglecting lower priority jobs
Jobs that are waiting for some resource (such as user input,
input from disk, or a shared output such as a printer) need to
handled without wasting CPU time

Multitasking on a Single CPU

Obviously, a single CPU cannot run multiple process simultaneously.
The OS simulates simultaneity by switching between tasks at a high
rate. Each switch is a time-slice Since thousands or hundreds of
thousands of CPU cycles can go by between user keystrokes, this
gives the appearance of simultaneous operation.

This resource allocation, priority processing, and time-slicing is

all done by the scheduler Unix Scheduling Algorithm

Unix schedules tasks in this order:

Highest priority task that is Ready-to-Run and loaded in memory
and preempted
Ties for priority are broken by time spent waiting (also known as
Round-Robin scheduling)
If no one is ready to run, the kernel idles until the next time-
slice Unix Images and Processes

Each process receives a unique numerical process identifier (pid)

when it is started. Even if the same program is run multiple times,
each instance will have a unique PID. A process has an image in
RAM.

Forks and Spawns:

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 When a process A is running, it can spawn another process B
It does this using the fork system call
B is said to be the child of A and A is known as the parent of B
Initially, the child and parent are virtually identical

They each start with identical but independent copies of the RAM
image, but being separate processes, they have unique PIDs.

The child then calls the system call exec using the command name
and arguments inherited from the parent. From this point on, the
child and parent can go their separate ways. However, since they
both have access to the same open files and pipes, there is a
potential for communication between them (interprocess
communication). The shell is the parent of most of your processes
The Shell is a Process. The principle process you interact with is
the shell. The shell can run some commands (builtins) itself but
for most commands, it forks a separate process. It usually waits
for the command process to finish and then gives you a new shell
prompt.

What if you could tell the shell not to wait? You could then
instruct the shell to do something else while the first command was
running in the background Voila! Multiprocessing in action!

Redhat Linux comparing with other Unices/Linuces, its shipped with

plethora of options for monitoring system, utilization with regards
to CPU, Memory and Disk etc.

$ uptime
18:18:16 up 3 days, 7:37, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tells you exactly how long your system is been running from

1mt 5mt 15mt

load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

$ cat /proc/meminfo
/proc

Virutal Directory created in RAM. It runs whenever the system is

running. It represents real time information and values stored in
are accurate. It doesnt occupy space on the disk

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo CPU Information A process has many

components and properties.

Display and update information about the top cpu processes

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$ top

Top displays the top 10 processes on the system and periodically

updates this information. Top command is a combination of various
commands to display CPU stats, memory, real time processes running
in the system Top refresh every 5 seconds Process States. Unix uses
several process states to determine the current condition of a
process.

Runnable
Stopped
Page Wait
Non-Interruptable wait

Typically for disk I/O or NFS requests

Sleeping
Idle
Terminated

OPTIONS

-q Renice top to -20 so that it will run faster. This can be used
when the system is being very sluggish to improve the possibility
of discovering the problem.
-dcount Show only count displays, then exit. A display is
considered to be one update of the screen. This option allows the
user to select the number of displays he wants to see before top
automatically exits. For intelligent terminals, no upper limit is
set. The default is 1 for dumb terminals.
-stime Set the delay between screen updates to time seconds. The
default delay between updates is 5 seconds.

INTERACTIVE MODE

h or ? Display a summary of the commands (help screen). Version

information is included in this display.
Q Quit top.
K Send a signal ("kill" by default) to a list of processes
R Change the priority (the "nice") of a list of processes.
S Change the number of seconds to delay between displays (prompt
for new number).
O Change the order in which the display is sorted. This command
is not available on all systems. The sort key names vary from
system to system but usually include: "cpu", "res", "size", "time".
The default is cpu.

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THE DISPLAY
PID every process runs have the process ID USER owner of the
process
PRI Current priority of the process.
NICE Nice amount in the range -20 to 20, as established by the use
of the command nice.
RES Resident memory: current amount of process memory that resides
in physical memory, given in kilobytes.
STATE Current state (typically one of "sleep", "run", "idl",
"zomb", or "stop").
TIME Number of system and user cpu seconds that the process has
used.
SIZE Amount of memory the process needs
CPU Percentage of available cpu time used by this process.
COMMAND Name of the command that the process is currently running

PROCESS STATE CODES

Here are the different values that the s, stat and state output
specifiers (header "STAT" or "S") will display to describe the
state of a process.
D Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R Running or runnable (on run queue)
S Interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
T Stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being
traced.
W paging (not valid since the 2.6.xx kernel)
X dead (should never be seen)
Z Defunct ("zombie") process, terminated but not reaped by its
parent. zombie -- dead process

For BSD formats and when the stat keyword is used, additional
characters may
be displayed:
high-priority (not nice to other users)

N low-priority (nice to other users)

L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO)
s is a session leader
l is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)
+ is in the foreground process group

Each process has a unique identification number (PID) which

characterises the process. The command top allows you to kill
processes using the k interactive command and entering the PID of
the relevant process. To leave top to just press the q key.

Free
$ free m
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$ free c 5 s 3
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1003 981 22 0 91 688
-/+ buffers/cache: 201 802
Swap: 1058 0 1058

As you can see, my system has 1 GB of ram and 981 MB are in use
leaving 22MB free. If you look at the cached column, it shows 688
MB free. This is a good thing as cached memory is basically free
memory. This is where programs a user may have used earlier and
then quit are stored, just on the off chance that the user might
start up the program again. On the other hand, if the user starts
up a new program, this cache can be replaced for the new program
that is running. It should be mentioned that the caching works not
just for recently loaded programs but also for data, i.e. recently
used files and directories. Program loading is just a special case
of loading a file.

The -/+ buffers/cache section is will show you what is really going
on. In my example, it shows that only 201 MB are in use and that
802 MB are free. The rest is just cached. What a user really needs
to worry about is that last line. If you start seeing the swap file
go into use that means that you are out of free ram and you are now
using space on your hard disk to help out. If this starts
happening, the best thing to do is run the top command and see what
is taking up all the memory. Then, if it is an unneeded program,
shut it down.

Signals

Signals are a software mechanism that are similar to a message of

some sort. They can be trapped and handled or ignored

Signals operate through two different system calls

1) The kill system call
2) The signal system call

1) The kill System Call

The kill system call sends a signal to a process kill is generally
used to terminate a process. It requires the PID of the process to
be terminated and the signal number to send as arguments.

2) The Signal System Call

The signal system call is much more diverse. When a signal occurs,
the kernel checks to see if the user had executed a signal system
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call and was therefor expecting a signal. If the call was to ignore
the signal, the kernel returns
Otherwise, it checks to see if it was a trap or kill signal If not,
it processes the signal If it was a trap or kill signal, the kernel
checks to see if core should be dumped and then calls the exit
routine to terminate the user process.

Common Unix Signals

$kill -l

SIGHUP Hang-up
SIGINT Interrupt
SIGQIT Quit
SIGINS Illegal Instruction
SIGTRAP Trace Trap
SIGKILL Kill
SIGSYS Bad argument to system call
SIGPIPE Write on pipe with no one to read it
SIGTERM Software termination signal from kill
SIGSTOP Stop signal

See /usr/include/sys/signal.h

Signal Acceptance

There are a couple of possible actions to take when a signal occurs

Ignore it
Process it
Terminate

The superuser can send signals to any process.

Normal users can only send signals to their own processes

Process Termination

A process is terminated by executing an exit system call or as a

result of a kill signal. When a process executes an exit system
call, it is first placed in a zombie state. In this state, it
doesn't exist anymore but may leave timing information and exit
status for its parent process. A zombie process is removed by

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executing a wait system call by the parent process.

Process Cleanup

The termination of a process requires a number of cleanup actions

These actions include:

Releasing all memory used by the process

Reducing reference counts for all files used by the process
Closing any files that have reference counts of zero
Releasing shared text areas, if any
Releasing the associated process table entry, the proc structure

This happens when the parent issues the wait system call, which
returns the
terminated child's PID

kill - signal a process

kill is somewhat strangely named
Sends the specified signal to a process

Syntax: kill [-sig_no] pid

kill -l (display list of signals)

-sig_no - signal number to send
pid - process id of process to receive signal

Default signal is TERM sig_no is 15, or request-process-termination

kill -9 pid terminates the process with extreme prejudice. As
usual, you can only kill your own processes unless you are the
superuser.

$ kill -9 <PID>
$ kill l -> lists all available signals
$ killall
$ pidof <pidname>
$ pgrep <pidname>
$ pkill <pidname>

Job Control

Job control refers to the ability to selectively stop (suspend) the

execution of processes and continue (resume) their execution at a
later point. A job is one or more processes started from a single
command line. By default, only one job can be run in the
foreground. This means that when a job is being executed in the
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foreground the command line is unavailable. When the job
has finished executing the command prompt is reissued.

It is also possible to suspend jobs and/or run multiple jobs in the

background, in which case the command line is still available in
the foreground, although any output from running background jobs
will still be displayed at the terminal. You can see the jobs
currently running or stopped in the background using the jobs
command.

The syntax for the jobs command is shown below:

jobs option(s)
Common jobs options are:

Option Explanation:
l Shows the job number, its PID, its status, and its name
p Shows just the PID of running jobs

Issuing the jobs command without any options will show a list of
all running, stopped and
suspended background jobs.
An example of using the job command is illustrated below:

$ jobs -l
[1]- 1229 Running tail -n5 -f /var/log/secure
[2]+ 1230 Stopped joe fred

In the above example there are two jobs in the background, one
running and one stopped.

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 File Permissions

File permissions are assigned to:

1. the owner of a file
2. the members of the group the file is assigned to
3. all other users
4. Permissions under Linux are configured for each file and
directory.

There are three levels of permissions:

1. The permissions that apply to the owner of the file. The owner of
a file is by default the user that created the file1.
2. The permissions that apply to all members of the group that is
associated with the file.
3. The permissions that apply to all other users on the system.
4. Permissions can only be changed by the owner, and root of course.

For a file, these permissions mean the following:

read allow the user to read the contents of the file, for instance
with cat or less.

write allow the user to modify the contents of the file,for

instance with vi.

execute allow the user to execute the file as a program, provided

that the file is indeed an executable program (such as a shell
script).

For a directory, these permissions have a slightly different

meaning:

read allow the user to view the contents of the directory, for
instance with ls.

write allow the user to modify the contents of the directory.

In other words: allow the user to create and delete files, and to
modify the names of the files. Note: Having write permissions on a
directory thus allows you to delete files, even if you have no
write permissions on that file!

execute allow the user to use this directory as its current

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working directory. In other words: allow the user to cd into it.

r - read
w - write
x execute
u for the owner (user) of the file
g for the group assigned to the file
o for all other users
a for all (owner+group+others)

<operator> can be:

+ to add permissions
- to delete permissions
= to clear all permissions and set to the permissions specified

Symbolic way

$ useradd sachin
$ passwd sachin
$ useradd dhoni
$ passwd dhoni
$ groupadd market;usermod G market dhoni
$ useradd shewag
$ passwd shewag
$ groupadd market;usermod G market shewag
$ mkdir /opt/perm/;touch /opt/perm/file{1..6}
$ mkdir /opt/perm/{data1,data2}
$ cd /opt/perm
$ ll d data1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 29 20:15 data1
$ chown sachin data1
$ ll d data1
$ chgrp market data1
$ ll d data1
$ chmod u-w data1
$ ll d data1
$ chmod g+w data1
$ ll d data1
$ chmod o+w,o-rx data1
$ ll d data1
$ ll d data2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 29 20:15 data2
$ chown Rv sachin.market data2
$ ll d data2
$ chmod u-rwx data2
$ ll d data2
$ chmod g+w,g-x data2
$ ll d data2

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$ chmod Rv o+w,o-r data2
$ ll d data2

Octal way

$ ll file1
-rw-r--r- 1 root root 0 Jul 29 20:15 file1
$ chmod 777 file1
$ ll file1
$ chmod 666 file2
$ ll file1
$ chmod 467 file3
$ ll file1
$ chmod 541 file4
$ ll file1
$ chmod 724 file5
$ ll file1
$ chmod 000 file6
$ chmod 0 file6

This table shows what numeric values mean:

Octal Text Binary
Meaning
digit equivalent value
All types of access are
0 --- 000
denied
Execute access is allowed
1 --x 001
only
2 -w- 010 Write access is allowed only
Write and execute access are
3 -wx 011
allowed
4 r-- 100 Read access is allowed only
Read and execute access are
5 r-x 101
allowed
Read and write access are
6 rw- 110
allowed
7 rwx 111 Everything is allowed

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 Umask
User Mask

New files should not be created with 666! To avoid this problem a
permission mask exists. It is obviously important to know with what
permissions new files and directories are created. Under Linux,
its not really easy to tell, since the default permissions can be
modified by setting a umask (with the umask command).

If no umask were set (which never happens, by the way), a file

would always be created with permissions 666 (rw-rw-rw-) and a
directory would get 777 (rwxrwxrwx). In actual practice however, a
umask is set, and this number is subtracted from these permissions.

So, with a umask of 022, the default permissions for a file will
become 644 (rw-r--r--, 666-022) and the default permissions for a
directory will become 755 (rwx-r-xr-x, 777-022).

The default umask depends on your distribution, and whether your

distribution uses something called User Private Groups.

Red Hat assigns a umask of 002 to regular users, and 022 to root.
SUSE assigns a umask of 022 to all users, including root.
- What is your current default permission (umask)
- How do you set your default permission?
- Umask defines what permissions, in octal, cannot be set
- Umask stands for user file creation mode mask
- In essence, system sets the default permission on the file and
directory
- If i would have no "umask:, the default permission on the file
would be "777"
- Usually set in a login script
- it is the inverse of the normal octal permissions
- "umask -S" shows your umask in symbolic form
- linux removes the "x" permissions (or the 1) so 777 is the same
as 666

- here are the common umask values:

--> 000 = full access (r+w) to everyone, or 666
--> 006 = no access to other, or 660
--> 022 = full access (r+w) to user and r to g and 0, or 644
--> 066 = full access (r+w) to user and no access to g + o, or 600
-

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Normally, you can subtract from 666 but be very careful as it may
be 777. In Fedora Linux, it is 666 but lets test it out...
--> View the current umask setting
$umask

--> shows your umask in symbolic form

$ umask S

- Umask on directory should be subtract from 777

777
- 022
------
755

System-wide umask for all users in /etc/profile

Individual umask in $HOME/.bash_profile or $HOME/.profile

Default value of umask is:

For root 022
For user 002 (if user private groups are used) or 022 (otherwise)
The umask specifies what permission bits will be set on a new file
when it is created. The umask is an octal number that specifies the
which of the permission bits will not be set. On Task

I
change Symbolic way
1.Give 704 to abc file
2.Give 417 to abc file
3.Give 006 to abc file
4.give 707 to abc file

II
change Octal way
1.change to octal mode r-xrw-r-x to abc chmod 565
2.change to octal mode --xr-xr-- to abc chmod 154
3.change to octal mode rw----rwx to abc chmod 607
4.change to octal mode ---r-x--- to abc chmod 050

III
symbolic way
1.change r-xrw-r-x to rw--wxrwx to abc chmod u+w,u-x,g-r,g+x,o+w
2.change --xr-xr-- to rwxrwxrw- to abc chmod u+rw,g+w,o+w
3.change rw----rwx to --x----wx to abc chmod u-rw,u+x,o-r
4.change ---r-x--- to rwx-w-rwx to abc chmo u+rwx,g-rx,g+w,o+rwx

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Administarative cmnds and Lowlevel cmnds

Lowlevel
/bin This directory contains executable programs which are needed
in single user mode and to bring the system up or repair it.

Administrative
/sbin Like /bin, This directory holds commands needed to boot the
sys-
tem, but which are usually not executed by normal users.

Lowlevel
/usr/bin This is the primary directory for executable programs.
Most
programs executed by normal users which are not needed for boot-
ing or for repairing the system and which are not installed
locally should be placed in this directory.

Administrative
/usr/sbin This directory contains program binaries for system
administration which are not essential for the boot process, for
mounting
/usr, or for system repair.

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 UnderstandingUNIX/Linuxfilesystem

Aconceptualunderstandingoffilesystem,especiallydatastructureandrelatedtermswillhelpyou
becomeasuccessfulsystemadministrator.IhaveseenmanynewLinuxsystemadministratorw/o
anyclueaboutfilesystem.Theconceptualknowledgecanbeappliedtorestorefilesysteminan
emergencysituation.

What is a File?

Filearecollectionofdataitemsstoredondisk.Oritsdevicewhichcanstoretheinformation,data,
music(mp3),picture,movie,sound,booketc.Infactwhateveryoustoreincomputeritmustbe
informoffile.Filesarealwaysassociatedwithdeviceslikeharddisk,floppydisketc.Fileisthelast
objectinyourfilesystemtree.SeeLinux/UNIXrulesfornamingfileanddirectorynames.

What is a directory?

Directoryisgroupoffiles.Directoryisdividedintotwotypes:Root directory Strictly

speaking, there is only one root directory in your system, which is
denoted by / (forward slash). It is root of your entire file system
and can not be renamed or deleted.
Sub directory - Directory under root (/) directory is
subdirectory which can be created, renamed by the user.
Directoriesareusedtoorganizeyourdatafiles,programsmoreefficiently.

Linux supports numerous file system types

3. Ext2: This is like UNIX file system. It has the concepts of

blocks, inodes and directories.
4. Ext3: It is ext2 filesystem enhanced with journalling
capabilities. Journalling allows fast file system recovery.
Supports POSIX ACL (Access Control Lists).
5. Isofs (iso9660): Used by CDROM file system.
6. Sysfs: It is a ram-based filesystem initially based on ramfs. It
is use to exporting kernel objects so that end user can use it
easily.
7. Procfs: The proc file system acts as an interface to internal
data structures in the kernel. It can be used to obtain
information about the system and to change certain kernel
parameters at runtime using sysctl command. For example you can
find out cpuinfo with following command:

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 What is a UNIX/Linux File system?

A UNIX file system is a collection of files and directories stored.

Each file system is stored in a separate whole disk partition. The
following are a few of the file system:
/ - Special file system that incorporates the files under several
directories including /dev, /sbin, /tmp etc
/usr - Stores application programs
/var - Stores log files, mails and other data
/tmp - Stores temporary files

Exploring Linux File System Hierarchy

A typical Linux system has the following directories:

=> / : This is the root directory.

=> /bin : This directory contains executable programs which are

needed in single user mode and to bring the system up or repair it.

=> /boot : Contains static files for the boot loader. This
directory only holds the files which are needed during the boot
process.

=> /dev : Special or device files, which refer to physical devices

such as hard disk, keyboard, monitor, mouse and modem etc

=> /etc : Contains configuration files which are local to the

machine. Some larger software packages, like Apache, can have their
own subdirectories below /etc i.e. /etc/httpd. Some important
subdirectories in /etc:

=> /home : Your sweet home to store data and other files. However
in
large installation yhe structure of /home directory depends on
local
administration decisions.

=> /lib : This directory should hold those shared libraries that
are
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necessary to boot the system and to run the commands in the root
filesystem.

=> /lib64 : 64 bit shared libraries that are necessary to boot the
system and to run the commands in the root filesystem.

=> /mnt : This directory contains mount points for temporarily

mounted
filesystems

=> /opt : This directory should contain add-on packages such as

install download firefox or static files

=> /proc : This is a mount point for the proc filesystem, which
provides information about running processes and the kernel.

=> /root : This directory is usually the home directory for the
root user.

=> /sbin : Like /bin, this directory holds commands needed to boot
the
system, but which are usually not executed by normal users, root /
admin user specific commands goes here.

=> /tmp : This directory contains temporary files which may be

deleted
with no notice, such as by a regular job or at system boot up.

=> /usr : This directory is usually mounted from a separate

partition.
It should hold only sharable, read-only data, so that it can be
mounted by various machines run ning Linux (useful for diskless
client
or multiuser Linux network such as university network). Programs,
libraries, documentation etc. for all user-related programs.

=> /var : This directory contains files which may change in size,
such
as spool and log files.

=> /lost+found : Every partition has a lost+found in its upper

directory. Files that were saved during failures are here,
for e.g
ext2/ext3 fsck recovery.

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 /etc/skel:Whenanewuseraccountiscreated,filesfromthisdirectoryareusuallycopiedinto
theusershomedirectory.

/etc/X11 : Configuration files for the X11 window system .

* /etc/sysconfig : Important configuration file used by SysV script

stored in /etc/init.d and /etc.rcX directories
/etc/cron.* : cron daemon configuration files which is used to
execute scheduled commands

Common Linux log files name and usage

* /var/log/message: General message and system related stuff

* /var/log/auth.log: Authenication logs
* /var/log/kern.log: Kernel logs
* /var/log/cron.log: Crond logs (cron job)
* /var/log/maillog: Mail server logs
* /var/log/qmail/ : Qmail log directory (more files inside this
directory)
* /var/log/httpd/: Apache access and error logs directory
* /var/log/lighttpd: Lighttpd access and error logs directory
* /var/log/boot.log : System boot log
* /var/log/mysqld.log: MySQL database server log file
* /var/log/secure: Authentication log
* /var/log/utmp or /var/log/wtmp : Login records file
* /var/log/yum.log: Yum log files

Go to /var/logs directory:#
$cd /var/logsView common log file /var/log/messages using any one
of the
following command:
$ tail -f /var/log/messages
$ less /var/log/messages
$ more -f /var/log/messages
$ vi /var/log/messagesOutput:

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Device Driver character,block,socket
. Type field: The first character in the field indicates a file type of one of the following:
* d = directory.
* l = symbolic link.
* s = socket sockets are special files offering a type of network interface.
* p = named pipe handling other programme other than kernel driver.
* - = regular file.
* c= character (unbuffered) device file special.
* b=block (buffered) device file special.
*D=door Adoorisaspecialfileforinterprocesscommunicationbetweenaclientandserver.

Ref -
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1872
http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/linux_hlfilesyste
ms.html

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 FSTAB

fstab is 9th out of the 10 most critical and

important configuration files which is stored in /etc
directory, where all the configuration files are stored.

fstab stands for "File System TABle" and this file

contains information of hard disk partitions and
removeable devices in the system. It contains infor-
mation of where the partitions and removeable devices are
mounted and which device drivers are used for mounting
them, which filesystem they are using and what
permissions are assigned to them.

The file fstab contains descriptive information about

the various file systems. fstab is only read by programs,
and not written; it is the duty of the system
administrator to properly create and maintain this file.
Each filesystem is described on a separate line; fields
on each line are separated by tabs or spaces. Lines
starting with '#' are comments. The order of records in
fstab is important because fsck, mount, and umount
sequentially iterate through fstab doing their thing.

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Example of a fstab file content :

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1
1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1
2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1
2
none /proc proc defaults 0
0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0
0
LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1
2
LABEL=/u01 /u01 ext3 defaults 1
2
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1
2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1
2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0
0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,ro 0
0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0
0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb_hdd vfat noauto 0
0
\________/ \___________/ \_________/\____________/
\_/ \_/
| | | | |
|
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
6th

There are total six columns in the fstab file separated by

spaces or tabs. Each column holds different information about the
device. For adding any new device add a fresh row. Each row stands
for a partition or removeable device in the system.

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1st Column :

~~~~~~~~~~
The first column contains the partitions's label, eg.
"LABEL=/boot" or driver's path, eg. "/dev/cdrom". Device driver's
path tells the system to mount the device with the mentioned device
driver.

2nd Column :
~~~~~~~~~~
The second field (fs_file) describes the mount point for
the filesystem.
For swap partitions, this field should be specified as `none'. If
the name of
the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped as `\040'.

The second column shows the mount point specified for a device
in the fstab file. The mount points actually is the directory where
that particular device(mentioned in the first column) will be
mounted and through which we can view and modify the content of
that partition. You can change the default mount point listed in
the column, if you are not satisfied with the one your system has
given you.

3rd Column :
~~~~~~~~~~
The third column in the file specifies the file system type of
the device or partition.Many diffrent file systems are supported by
Linux and most common ones are,
1) autofs
2) devpts
3) ext2
4) ext3
5) iso9660
6) nfs
7) ntfs
8) proc
9) swap
10) tmpfs
11) udf
12) ufs
13) vfat
14) xfs
If you are not sure of the file system type of the device then
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file system type and will mount the device with that file system.

4th Column :
~~~~~~~~~~
The fourth column is for permissions to be given to the
partition at the time of booting. There are many options which
constitutes the forth column. They are as follows : -

1) ro - Read Only

2) rw - Read Write

3) auto - Mount on startup

4) noauto - Do not mount on startup

5) user - Any user can mount, but only unmount device

mounted by him

6) nouser - Only root can mount & unmount the device

7) users - Every user can mount and also unmount the device
mounted by others

8) owner - Same as user (above no. 5)

9) dev - User can use device driver to mount the device

10) nodev - User cannot use device driver to mount the device

11) exec - Users can execute binaries on the partition

12) noexec - Users cannot execute binaries on the partition

13) async - Asynchronous, whenever a file is saved it will be

first saved in the RAM and after 30 seconds all the
queued files will be written on the hard disk

14) sync - Synchronous, whenever a file is saved it will be

directly written to the hard disk

15) suit - Allow set-user-identifier for the device where

users are allowed to run binaries even though they
do not have execute permissions. These binaries are
temporarily made available to them to perform certain
tasks

16) nosuid - Do not allow set-user-identifier

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17) defaults - auto, rw, dev, async, suid, exec & nouser

5th Column :
~~~~~~~~~~
The 5th column is for backup option. This column contains
either 0 or 1. Where "0" stands for "NO" and "1" stands for
"YES". The system checks it at the time of booting, if it's "0",
dump will ignore that filesystem but if its "1" then it will
enable backup option.Backup is supported on only ext3 file system,
hence only for ext3 file system it should be enabled and for rest
of the file systems it should be disabled.

6th Column :
~~~~~~~~~~
The 6th column is for "fsck" option. fsck stands for file
system check. This column defines the order in which the system
should scan the partitions on start up. The / partition is assigned
top priority i.e. 1 and the rest of the partitions are assigned
second priority i.e. 2. If value is set to 0 means no scanning
will be done at the time of startup.If same number is given to
different partitions then the partitions are scanned together with
equal priority. This minimizes error because if a link is present
on one partition with higher priority and the source file in
another partition with a priority lower than the link, it will
give an error.

The dmesg command is used to write the kernel messages in Linux and
other Unix-like operating systems to standard output (which by
default is the display screen).
A kernel is the core of an operating system. It is the first part
of the operating system that is loaded into memory when a computer
boots up (i.e., starts up), and it controls virtually everything on
a system. The numerous messages generated by the kernel that appear
on the display screen as a computer boots up show the hardware
devices that the kernel detects and indicate whether it is able to
configure them.
dmesg obtains its data by reading the kernel ring buffer. A buffer
is a portion of a computer's memory that is set aside as a
temporary holding place for data that is being sent to or received
from an external device, such as a hard disk drive (HDD), printer
or keyboard. A ring buffer is a buffer of fixed size for which any
new data added to it overwrites the oldest data in it.

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dmesgcanbeveryusefulwhentroubleshootingorjusttryingtoobtaininformationaboutthe
hardwareonasystem.Itsbasicsyntaxisdmesg [options]
Invoking dmesg without any of its options (which are rarely used)
causes it to write all the kernel messages to standard output. This
usually produces far too many lines to fit into the display screen
all at once, and thus only the final messages are visible. However,
the output can be redirected to the less command through the use of
a pipe (designated by the vertical bar character), thereby allowing
the startup messages to be viewed one screenful at a time:
dmesg | less

less allows the output to be moved forward one screenful at a time

by pressing the SPACE bar, backward by pressing the b key and
removed by pressing the q key. (The more command could have been
used here instead of the less command; however, less is newer than
more and has additional functions, including the ability to return
to previous pages of the output.)
When a user encounters a problem with the system, it can be
convenient to write the output of dmesg to a file and then send
that file by e-mail to a system administrator or other
knowledgeable person for assistance. For example, the output could
be redirected to a file named boot_messages using the output
redirection operator (designated by a rightward facing angle
bracket) as follows:
dmesg > boot_messages

Because of the length of the output of dmesg, it can be convenient

to pipe its output to grep, a filter which searches for any lines
that contain the string (i.e., sequence of characters) following
it. The -i option can be used to tell grep to ignore the case
(i.e., lower case or upper case) of the letters in the string. For
example, the following command lists all references to USB
(universal serial bus) devices in the kernel messages:
dmesg | grep -i usb

And the following tells dmesg to show all serial ports (which are
represented by the string tty):
dmesg | grep -i tty

The dmesg and grep combination can also be used to show how much
physical memory (i.e., RAM) is available on the system:
dmesg | grep -i memory

The following command checks to confirm that the HDD(s) is running

in DMA (direct memory access) mode:

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dmesg | grep -i dma

The output of dmesg is maintained in the log file /var/log/dmesg,

and it can thus also be easily viewed by reading that file with a
text editor, such as vi or gedit, or with a command such as cat,
e.g.,
cat /var/log/dmesg | less
http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/nazario.html

lspci is a command on Unix-like operating systems that prints

detailed information about all PCI buses and devices in the system.
It is based on a common portable library libpci which offers access
to the PCI configuration space on a variety of operating systems.
Example output on a Linux system:
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host
Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 11)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 CGC
[Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 11)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev
03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC)
(rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1)
(rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 03)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
(rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM
AC'97 Audio (rev 03)
01:03.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1
CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
01:03.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1
CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01)
01:0b.0 PCI bridge: Actiontec Electronics Inc Mini-PCI bridge (rev
11)
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet
Pro 100] (rev 08)
02:08.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems WinModem 56k (rev
01)

If many devices are shown as unknown (e.g. "Unknown device 2830

(rev 02)), issuing the command 'update-pciids' will usually do the
trick.
Detail Information
$lspci vv
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Toupdatepciidsinformationto/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids $updatepciids

Bash

Bash
Descended from the Bourne Shell, Bash is a GNU product, the "Bourne
Again SHell." It's the standard command line interface on most
Linux
machines. It excels at interactivity, supporting command line
editing,
completion, and recall. It also supports configurable prompts -
most
people realize this, but don't know how much can be done.
Bash converts the text script to binary (0,1).

This chapter is based on Chapters 6 through 8 of the Siever book,

Linux in a Nutshell [Siever 2003] .
Figure 1 illustrates some of the shells found on UNIX/Linux
systems.
Shell Description
bash Bourne-again shell (GNU)
csh C shell (BSD)
jsh Job control shell (SVR4)
ksh Korn shell (Bell Labs)
rc Plan 9 shell (Bell Labs)
rsh Remote shell (TCP/IP)
Bourne shell (UNIX 7th
sh
Edition)
Popular extension of the
tcsh
C shell
Popular extension of the
zsh
Korn shell

Figure 1: Some UNIX/Linux Shells

Standard GNU/Linux systems use bash as the default shell. Some
distributions, e.g. Red Hat Linux, have /bin/sh as a symbolic link
to /bin/bash and /bin/csh as a symbolic link to /bin/tcsh.

Common Features
Figure 2 illustrates some features that are common to both bash and
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 tcsh.
Symbol Description
> Redirect output
>> Append output to a file
< Redirect input
<< Redirect input ("Here" document)
| Pipe output
& Run process in background
; Separate commands on one line
* Match character(s) in filename
? Match single character in filename
!n Repeat command number n
[...] Match any characters enclosed
(...) Execute commands in a subshell
Quote allowing variable and command
"..."
expansion
'...' Literal string
`...` Command substitution
\ Quote following character
$var Variable expansion
$$ Process ID
$0 Command name
$n nth argument (0...9)
$* All arguments
$? Exit status
Begin comment

Figure 2: Common symbols

In addition to these symbols, both shells have some common
commands, as illustrated in Figure 3.
Command Description
bg Background execution
break Break out of a loop
cd Change directory
continue Resume a loop
echo Display output
eval Evaluate arguments
exec Execute a new program
fg Foreground execution
jobs Show active jobs
kill Terminate running job(s)
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shift Shift positional parameters
stop Suspend a background job
suspend Suspend a foreground job
umask Set or list file permissions
unset Erase variable or function definition
wait Wait for a background job to finish

Refrence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash

Practical

BASH

Login root
passwd *****
when you login u get vcs (virtual konsole) with the help of
tty driver (/dev/tty*) and a shell (/bin/bash)
In Linux default shell is bash (/bin/bash)
To check the shells supported by your OS
$cat /etc/shells
To swap in other shell
$sh
$ksh etc....
check your bash
$ps
to start another bash just run the following, which is inherited
$bash
Now chk with
$ps you will have two bash (parent and child) if u will kill
the child bash it wont effect to parent but if u do viceversa
then chk what happens.
$List the bash shell pid
$ps -el | grep bash
Now try loading bash and can kill with the cmd
$kill9<pidofbash>
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Bash

Here's a neat Bash-prompt trick. At a basic Bash prompt, press the

up-arrow key and you'll see the last command you typed in. Press
again and again to rotate through all the commands you typed
previously, stored for you in Bash history.

You will only see the commands you typed in for your login, whether
that's for a specific user or for root.

HerearesomeadditionalBashtips,allofwhicharecommandsthatyoutypeattheBashprompt:
Todisplayafullnumberedlistofallstoredcommands,type:
history
To retrieve the eighth command previously entered, type:
!8

To get the last command that started with the letter V, type:
!v

Bash history isn't lost when you reboot or shutdown either. Clever
isn't it?
Bash Shortcuts
To go along with Bash basics above, here are some basic shorthand
commands:

To go back one step in the directory tree, type:

cd ..

To change to the /home/{logged in username} directory, type:

cd ~

To change to the directory of a specific user when you have more

than one, type the previous command followed by the name of the
user:
cd ~bruno
cd ~anna

To change the directory /home/{logged in

username}/Downloads/Backgrounds, type:
cd ~/Downloads/Backgrounds

For really fast typing don't forget to use the Tab-key for auto-
completion.

Typing the following does the same as the previous example, a lot
faster:
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cd ~/D {press Tab Key} /B {press Tab key}
Bash Script

You probably know that the "rm" command removes (or deletes) a file
permanently. Wouldn't it be nice if we could move it to the recycle
bin with a simple command instead? You can. To do that, you can
make your own command called Del with a brief script.
To build the script, open a terminal and type the following lines:
su
{type your root password} (Note: you should see the # prompt)
kedit /usr/bin/del

This opens a new window in the keditor into which you should type
the following script:
#!/bin/bash

mv $1 ~/Desktop/Trash
#End script
The next step is to save the file using kedit's File, Save As menu
command. Then, back at the Bash prompt logged in as root, type this
line to make the new script executable:
$chmod 0775 /usr/bin/del
Now whenever you type the del command, it will run your script. For
example, if you came across the "tessst" file and you wanted to
move it to the trash, you could just type this at the Bash prompt:

$del tessst
That will perform the same action as:

$mv tessst /home/{logged in username}/Desktop/Trash

Sure this was a very short example, a three-line script, it only
holds one command, but you could add as many lines to the script as
you wanted to and execute it with a simple three-letter word. If
there are more commands in the script it will execute them in the
order that they appear. Because /usr/bin is in your path you only
have to type "del" to execute it from anywhere in the file system.

Tab Completion Tip

Did you know you can use the Tab key to auto-complete commands on
the command line? Just type a few characters that start a command
and press the Tab key. The command or name of an existing directory
or file will be completed.
Try this. Type the following and then press the Tab key:
$ cd /u

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Now add an "s" and press Tab, type "h" and press Tab. The result
should be:
$ cd /usr/share/

Now type "f" "o" "n" and press Tab, "t" press Tab, "d" Tab, and
press the Enter key. That should put you in:
/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives

Type the following and press Enter:

ls

That'll bring up a list of all the fancy ttf fonts on your system.
So next time you have to type a long command like this:
# cp synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz
/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz
... try it this way instead:

# cp sy (Tab key), /v (Tab key), li (Tab key), u (Tab key), sy (Tab

key)
And because the full command is on your screen, the light will go
on if it hasn't already! (Note: This command works only if the file
"synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz" is in your /home directory)

How about a little more on the Tab key and commands. If you don't
remember exactly how a command was written, type in the first
character or two and hit the Tab key. You'll get a list of all the
commands that start with the same character(s).
If you wish to know what a certain command does -- say, mkmanifest
-- use the whatis command, like this:
$ whatis mkmanifest
mkmanifest (1) - Makes list of file names and their DOS 8+3
equivalents.

Introduction to BASH

* Developed by GNU project.

* The default Linux shell.
* Backward-compatible with the original sh UNIX shell.
* Bash is largely compatible with sh and incorporates useful
features from the Korn shell ksh and the C shell csh.
* Bash is the default shell for Linux. However, it does runs on
every version of Unix and a few other operating systems such as ms-
dos, os/2, and Windows platforms.

Quoting from the official Bash home page:

Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will

appear in the GNU operating system. It is intended to conform to
the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It

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offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and
interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash
without modification.
The improvements offered by BASH include:

The Bash syntax is an improved version of the Bourne shell syntax.

In most cases Bourne shell scripts can be executed by Bash without
any problems.

* Command line editing.

* Command line completion.
* Unlimited size command history.
* Prompt control.
* Indexed arrays of unlimited size (Arrays).
* Integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four.
* Bash startup files - You can run bash as an interactive login
shell, or interactive non-login shell. See Bash startup files for
more information.
* Bash conditional expressions: Used in composing various
expressions for the test builtin or [[ or [ commands.
* The Directory Stack - History of visited directories.
* The Restricted Shell: A more controlled mode of shell
execution.
* Bash POSIX Mode: Making Bash behave more closely to what the
POSIX standard specifies.

In Linux, a lot of work is done using a command line shell. Linux

comes preinstalled with Bash. Many other shells are available under
Linux:

* tcsh - An enhanced version of csh, the C shell.

* ksh - The real, AT&T version of the Korn shell.
* csh - Shell with C-like syntax, standard login shell on BSD
systems.
* zsh - A powerful interactive shell.
* scsh- An open-source Unix shell embedded within Scheme
programming language.

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 Shell Scripting

Starting a Script With #!

1. It is called a shebang or a "bang" line.

2. It is nothing but the absolute path to the Bash interpreter.
3. It consists of a number sign and an exclamation point
character (#!), followed by the full path to the interpreter such
as /bin/bash.
4. All scripts under Linux execute using the interpreter
specified on a first line[1].
5. Almost all bash scripts often begin with #!/bin/bash
(assuming that Bash has been installed in /bin)
6. This ensures that Bash will be used to interpret the script,
even if it is executed under another shell[2].
7. The shebang was introduced by Dennis Ritchie between Version
7 Unix and 8 at Bell Laboratories. It was then also added to the
BSD line at Berkeley [3].

Ignoring An Interpreter Line (shebang)

* If you do not specify an interpreter line, the default is

usually the /bin/sh. But, it is recommended that you set
#!/bin/bash line.

/bin/sh

For a system boot script, use /bin/sh:

#!/bin/sh

sh is the standard command interpreter for the system. The current

version of sh is in the process of being changed to conform with
the POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.2a specifications for the shell.
Did you know?

* It is the shell that lets you run different commands without

having to type the full pathname to them even when they do not
exist in the current directory.
* It is the shell that expands wildcard characters, such as *
or ?, thus saving you laborious typing.
* It is the shell that gives you the ability to run previously
run commands without having to type the full command again by
pressing the up arrow, or pulling up a complete list with the
history command.
* It is the shell that does input, output and error
redirection.
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Why shell scripting?

* Shell scripts can take input from a user or file and output
them to the screen.
* Whenever you find yourself doing the same task over and over
again you should use shell scripting, i.e., repetitive task
automation.
o Creating your own power tools/utilities.
o Automating command input or entry.
o Customizing administrative tasks.
o Creating simple applications.
o Since scripts are well tested, the chances of errors
are reduced while configuring services or system administration
tasks such as adding new users.

Practical examples where shell scripting actively used

* Monitoring your Linux system.

* Data backup and creating snapshots.
* Dumping Oracle or MySQL database for backup.
* Creating email based alert system.
* Find out what processes are eating up your system resources.
* Find out available and free memory.

List of command bash keywords and built in commands

* JOB_SPEC &
* (( expression ))
* . filename
* [[:]]
* [ arg... ]
* expression
* alias
* bg
* bind
* builtin
* caller
* case
* command
* compgen
* complete
* continue
* declare
* dirs
* disown

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 * echo
* enable
* eval
* exec
* exit
* export
* false
* fc
* fg

command1 && command2

OR

First_command && Second_command

command2 is executed if, and only if, command1 returns an exit

status of zero (true). In other words, run command1 and if it is
successfull, then run command2.
Example

Type the following at a shell prompt:

$rm /tmp/filename && echo "File deleted."

The echo command will only run if the rm command exits successfully
with a status of zero. If file is deleted successfully the rm
command set the exit stats to zero and echo command get executed.
Lookup a username in /etc/passwd file

grep "^champu" /etc/passwd && echo "champu found in /etc/passwd"

Exit if a directory /tmp/foo does not exist

test ! -d /tmp/foo && { read -p "Directory /tmp/foo not found. Hit

[Enter] to exit..." enter; exit 1; }

Syntax:

command1 || command2

OR

First_command || Second_command

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command2 is executed if, and only if, command1 returns a non-zero
exit status. In other words, run command1 successfully or run
command2.
Example

$cat /etc/shadow 2>/dev/null || echo "Failed to open file"

The cat command will try to display /etc/shadow file and it (the
cat command) sets the exit stats to non-zero value if it failed to
open /etc/shadow file. Therefore, 'Failed to open file' will be
displayed cat command failed to open the file.
Find username else display an error

$grep "^champu" /etc/passwd || echo "User champu not found in

/etc/passwd"

How Do I Combine Both Logical Operators?

Try it as follows:

$cat /etc/shadow 2>/dev/null && echo "File successfully opened." ||

echo "Failed to open file."

Make sure only root can run this script:

$test $(id -u) -eq 0 && echo "You are root" || echo "You are NOT
root"

OR

$test $(id -u) -eq 0 && echo "Root user can run this script." ||
echo "Use sudo or su to become a root user."

Shell functions

* Sometime shell scripts get complicated.

* To avoid large and complicated scripts use functions.
* You divide large scripts into a small chunks/entities called
functions.
* Functions makes shell script modular and easy to use.
* Function avoids repetitive code. For example, is_root_user()
function can be reused by various shell scripts to determine
whether logged on user is root or not.

* Function performs a specific task. For example, add or delete a

user account.

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 * Function used like normal command.
* In other high level programming languages function is also
known as procedure, method, subroutine, or routine.

Writing the hello() function

Type the following command at a shell prompt:

hello() { echo 'Hello world!' ; }

Invoking the hello() function

hello() function can be used like normal command. To execute,

simply type:

hello

Passing the arguments to the hello() function

You can pass command line arguments to user defined functions.

Define hello as follows:

hello() { echo "Hello $1, let us be a friend." ; }

You can hello function and pass an argument as follows:

hello champu

Sample outputs:

Hello champu, let us be a friend.

* One line functions inside { ... } must end with a semicolon.

Otherwise you get an error on screen:

$xrpm() { rpm2cpio "$1" | cpio -idmv }

Above will not work. However, the following will work (notice
semicolon at the end):

$xrpm() { rpm2cpio "$1" | cpio -idmv; }

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To display defined function names use the declare command. Type the
following command at a shell prompt:

$declare -f

Sample outputs:

declare -f command_not_found_handle
declare -f genpasswd
declare -f grabmp3
declare -f hello
declare -f mp3
declare -f xrpm

Display Function Source Code

To view function names and source code, enter:

declare -f

OR

declare -f | less

The test command is used to check file types and compare values.
Test is used in conditional execution. It is used for:

* File attributes comparisons

* Perform string comparisons.
* Arithmetic comparisons.

test command syntax

test condition

OR

test condition && true-command

OR

test condition || false-command

OR

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test condition && true-command || false-command

Type the following command at a shell prompt (is 5 greater than

2? ):

$test 5 > 2 && echo "Yes"

$test 1 > 2 && echo "Yes"

Sample Output:
Yes
Yes

Rather than test whether a number is greater than 2, you have used
redirection to create an empty file called 2 (see shell
redirection). To test for greater than, use the -gt operator (see
numeric operator syntax):

test 5 -gt 2 && echo "Yes"

test 1 -gt 2 && echo "Yes"

Yes

You need to use the test command while make decision. Try the
following examples and note down its output:

$test 5 = 5 && echo Yes || echo No

$test 5 = 15 && echo Yes || echo No
$test 5 != 10 && echo Yes || echo No
$test -f /etc/resolv.conf && echo "File /etc/resolv.conf found." ||
echo "File /etc/resolv.conf not found."
test -f /etc/resolv1.conf && echo "File /etc/resolv1.conf found."
|| echo "File /etc/resolv1.conf not found."

Write Scripts
1.
#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter # 5 : " number
if test $number == 5
then
echo "Thanks for entering # 5"
fi
if test $number != 5
then
echo "I told you to enter # 5. Please try again."
fi

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2.
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo -e "What is your name : \c"
read name
echo hello $name. Welcome to Shell programming

sleep 2
clear
echo -e "Would you like to see a listing of your files ? [y/n]: \c"
read yn
if [ $yn = y ]
then
ls
fi

sleep 1
echo -e "Would you like to see who all are logged in ? [y/n]: \c"
read yn
if [ $yn = y ]
then

who
fi

sleep 1
echo Would you like to see which dir you are in \?
read yn
if [ $yn = y ]
then
pwd
fi

3.
#!/bin/sh
clear
echo Enter file name to copy
read apple
echo Enter file name to copy to
read mango
if cp $apple $mango > /dev/null 2>&1
then
echo Files copied ok Congrats!!
else
echo Error !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Contact Mr ABC at Ext 101
fi

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4.
#!/bin/bash
# -lt, -le, -gt, -ge, -ne, -eq : Use this for numerical
comparisions
# <, <=, >, >=, <>, = : Use this for String comparisions
clear
tput cup 10 10
echo -e "Enter a no from 1 to 5 : \c"
read num
if test $num -lt 6
then
tput cup 12 10
echo "Good"
else
tput cup 12 10
echo "Sorry only between 1 to 6"
fi

5.
#!/bin/bash
## see man test
clear
echo Enter file name
read filename
if [ -z $filename ]
then
echo You have to enter some file name
echo Exiting....
sleep 2
exit
fi
if [ -f $filename ]
then
echo The filename you entered exists !!
echo Deleting $filename .....
sleep 2
rm -f $filename
echo Deleted $filename .....
sleep 1
cls
else
echo The filename you entered does not exist !!!
fi

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6.
#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter a number : " n
if [ $n -gt 0 ]; then
echo "$n is a positive."
elif [ $n -lt 0 ]
then
echo "$n is a negative."
elif [ $n -eq 0 ]
then
echo "$n is zero number."
else
echo "Oops! $n is not a number."
fi

7.
#!/bin/bash

clear
echo -e "Enter a number from 1 to 3 : \c"
read num

case $num in
1) echo You have entered 1
;;
2) echo You have entered 2
;;
3) echo You have entered 3
;;
*) echo Between 1 to 3 only !!
;;
esac

8.
#!/bin/sh
echo Enter dog/cat/parrot
read animal
case $animal in
cat|kat) echo You have entered cat
;;
dog) echo You have entered dog
;;
parrot|crow) echo You have entered parrot or crow
;;
*) echo Invalid entry !!
;;
esac

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 RPM

Rpm is a powerful Package Manager for Red Hat, Suse and Fedora
Linux. It can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and
remove/erase individual software packages. A Package consists of an
archive of files, and package information, including name, version,
and description:

The RPM Package Manager

-------------------------------- -
RPM is a recursive acronym for RPM Package Manager.
It used to be called the Red Hat Package Manager, but Red Hat
changed its name to emphasis that other distributions use it too.
The new official name is RPM Package Manager, and yes, thats a
self-referencing acronym (SRA), just like GNU.

- RPM is the default package manager for Red Hat Linux systems.
- RPM system consists of a local database, the rpm executable, rpm
package files.
- It deals with .rpm files, which contain the actual programs as
well as various bits of meta-information about the package: what it
is, where it came from, version information and info about package
dependencies.
- RPMs are the files (called packages) which contain the
installable software; typically they have
the .rpm suffix.

RPM FACTS
--------------------------------
1. RPM is free - GPL
The RPM Package Manager or RPM is a tool which was developed by Red
Hat Software, who still maintain it, but released under the GNU
General Public Licence (GPL) and has proven to be so popular, that
a lot of other distribution manufacturers use it as well.
RPM is a very versatile program which solves a lot of problems that
a distributor of software typically faces:
Management of source files
Management of the build process
A distribution method and format for binary files, including pre-
and
postinstall scripts. RPMs can be created by anyone, not only the
manufacturer of your distribution.

2. stores info about packages in a database /var/lib/rpm

/var/lib/rpm contains all the database necessary for managing all

of the packages installed on your system in the form of rpm
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The database stores information about installed packages such as
file attributes and package prerequisites.

When a certain system uses RPMs to install packages, a database of

installed packages is stored in /var/lib/rpm. The database itself
is in rpm format too, so it cannot be read directly. You will have
to access the database using the rpm command.

Where to get RPMs

-
http://rpmseek.com
http://rpmfind.net
http://www.redhat.com
http://freshrpms.net
http://rpm.pbone.net
http://dag.wieers.com
http://rpmforge.net
http://filewatcher.com

Common Build Procedures

- source code install - tarball (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.bz,
tar.tbz)
- Configure/make/make install
- Binary RPMs (.rpm)
- Source RPMs (.srpm)

Some Query Options

$ rpm -ivh {rpm-file} Install the package

$ rpm -ivh mozilla-mail-1.7.5-17.i586.rpm
$ rpm -ivh --test mozilla-mail-1.7.5-17.i586.rpm
$ rpm -Uvh {rpm-file} Upgrade package
$ rpm -Uvh mozilla-mail-1.7.6-12.i586.rpm
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$ rpm -Uvh --test mozilla-mail-1.7.6-12.i586.rpm
$ rpm -Fvh upgrades to a later version
$ rpm -ev {package} Erase/remove/ an installed package
$ rpm -ev mozilla-mail
$ rpm -ev --nodeps {package} Erase/remove/ an installed package
without checking for dependencies
$ rpm -ev --nodeps mozilla-mail
$ rpm -qa Display list all installed packages rpm -qa
$ rpm -qa | less
$ rpm -qi {package} Display installed information along with
package version and short description
$ rpm -qi mozilla-mail
$ rpm -qf {/path/to/file} Find out what package a file belongs
to i.e. find what package owns the file
$ rpm -qf /etc/passwd
$ rpm -qf /bin/bash
$ rpm -qc {pacakge-name} Display list of configuration file(s)
for a package
$ rpm -qc httpd
$ rpm -qcf {/path/to/file} Display list of configuration files
for a command
$ rpm -qcf /usr/X11R6/bin/xeyes
$ rpm -qa --last Display list of all recently installed RPMs
$ rpm -qa --last
$ rpm -qa --last | less
$ rpm -qpR {.rpm-file}
$ rpm -qR {package} Find out what dependencies a rpm file has
$ rpm -qpR mediawiki-1.4rc1-4.i586.rpm
$ rpm -qR bash
$ rpm -qlp foo.rpm Which files are installed with foo.rpm?
$ rpm -ivh --nodeps pants.rpm Installing package Ignoring
Dependencies
$ rpm -e foo ('e' for erase)
$ rpm -i --prefix /new/directory package.rpm The --prefix and
--relocate options should make the rpm command relocate a package
to a new
location.
$ rpm -k <.rpm> we could verify the MD5 is OK
$ rpm --rebuilddb

Task
Download xmms-1.2.10-1.i386.rpm & try to install
$ rpm ivh xmms-1.2.10-1.i386.rpm
Will ask for dependency, Download dep from the given sites above &
install the same.
Download
glib-1.2.10-627.i586.rpm
gtk-1.2.10-926.i586.rpm
gtk-32bit-1.2.10-926.x86_64.rpm

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 UserAdministration
Only root (i.e. system administrator)can use adduser command
To create new users. It is not allow to other users.

Adduser is symlink of Useradd which is binary in /usr/sbin.

We(root)can
customise adduser by using another word(champu) & make it
symlink of useradd.
Let's see

[root@localhost root]$ cd /usr/sbin

[root@localhost sbin]$ ln -s useradd uad

Now uad is symlink of useradd.

There are 3 types of users

|
__________________|____________________
| | |
Super user System user Normal user

<1> Superuser : At the time of linux installation it is create.

He has right to make other users & his`userid'& `groupid' is zero
in `/etc/Passwd' file.

<2> Systemuser: These users create by System. They can't login

becoz their shell `sbin/noloin' is default in seventh field in
`/etc/passwd' file.

<3> Normaluser: These users create by superuser.

Let's see how superuser make normaluser :

[root@localhost root]$ adduser john

[root@localhost root]$ passwd john
Changing password for user john.
New password:(user password)
BAD PASSWORD: it is too short (if password is less than six
character but it doesn't affect so no need to worry)
Retype new password:(user password)
Passwd: all authentication tokens updated succesfully.

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[root@localhost root]$ userdel john ---> `userdel' command delete
only name of the user from
/home directory but it's
data remain there. It's
/usr/sbin/userdel

[root@localhost root]$ userdel -r john

---->userdel -r delete name of user as well as data.

[root@localhost root]$ usermod -G groupname username

i.e.
[root@localhost root]$ usermod -G john eric

---->`usermod -G' command makes the user eric member

of the group john. /usr/sbin/usermod.

su ----> with the help of this command root can work as

substitute user.

su -r ---->with the help of this command root come out from

subtitute user.

The information of adduser refers 2 files & updates 4 files.

Config. files

Refers
|----/etc/login.defs
|
|----/etc/default/useradd

Updates
|----/etc/passwd
|
|----/etc/group
|
|----/etc/shadow
|
|----/etc/gshadow

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/etc/login.defs
<1> /etc/login.defs : It keep the information of directory where
mailboxes reside or name of file relative to the home directory,
Password duration & how many users can login.

"Passwd file" & "Group file" get the information of userid &
groupid from this file.
"shadow file" & "Gshadow file" get the information of user login &
password duration of user from this file.

Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd.

UID-MIN 500
UID-MAX 60000

The id of user start from 500 & max it is 60000 which is default
according to REDHAT but we can customise it.

If there are two department ACCOUNTANT & MARKETING in one office

then I can start userid to ACCOUNTANT from 1000 & to MARKETING from
2000 which is reliable.

Similar way to Groupid

GID-MIN 500
GID-MAX 60000

PASSWORD AGING CONTROLS:

1. PASS-MAX-DAYS 99999 : The maximum number of days a password can
be used. i.e max 99999 days.
2. PASS-MIN-DAYS 0 : The minimum number of days allowed between
password can change.
3. PASS-MIN-LEN 5 : The minimum length of the password. i.e. 5
character.
4. PASS-WARN-AGE 7 : Specifies the number of days warning given to
user before the password expire. ie 7 days.

The above PASSWORD AGING information is default according to REDHAT

which we can customise it.

/etc/default/useradd

<2> /etc/default/useradd : It has information of no. of groups,

directory
of users & user using which shell in following way.

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1. Group=100 ----> It's default no. of groups according to Redhat
which can customise.

2. Home=/home ----> It's default dir of user as Redhat say to which

we can give any name i.e. we can make `ghar'instead of `home' by
making directory under /

3. Inactive ----> It's number of days after password expire of user.

4. Expire ----> It's number of days for the account of user will
expire.

5. Shell=/bin/bash --> It's path of user shell.

Skel=/etc/skel ---> When user create there is zero dir or file but
when give command `l.' it shows some hidden files which comes
from /etc/skel.

/etc/passwd
<3> /etc/passwd : * It keeps the record of new user when create by
superuser. Each line is entry of new user. It is
text file & has details of all system users.

* It has 7 fields for each user in each line so

it is called `system passwd database' & each field
is separted : (colon) also called "Internal field
separator".

champu:x:500:500::/home/champu:/bin/bash
\____/\_/\__/\_/||\___________/\______/
| | | | || | |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1. field (champu) : It is username

2. field (x) : It contain user password which is somewhere else if

exist.
If we put * inplace of x then user can't login.
If we keep second field blank then user can login without
password.
i.e. (x) --- password somewhere else.

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 (*) --- user can't login.
( ) --- user can login without passwd.

3. field (500) : It contain userid which is unique. Further userid's

are just one greater than last user.

4. field (500) : It contain groupid which is always same as userid.

It's group of users.

5. field () : It is comment field or GECOS(General electric

compressive operating system) user can keep his information by
using command `chfn'in this field such as
$ chfn
Name []:
office []:
office phone []:
Home phone []:

6. field (/home/champu) : It's home of champu. /home is directory

where all users store.

7. field (/bin/bash) : It contain the full path of shell used by

user. Through shell we can convert shell script into binary
format & whatever get from kernal convert into text format.

/etc/group
<4> /etc/group : This file keep the information of group. It has
four field of each group of each line so it is called `system
group database'.

Member of group has right to enter other member's of system who is

member of same group.

line in this field like follow

Accounts:x:500:
| | | |
1 2 3 4

1. field (accounts) : It contain name of group which is always same

as the first member username.

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 2. field (x) : It contain group password which is somewhere else if
exist & it's password is same of first member of group.

3. field (500) : It contain group id which is same of first member's

id of group.

4. field : It contains list of members of group. By default Redhat

it is blank but user can fill it by put the name of members of
group.

One user can makes members of his group by using command `usermod
-G' which is run by only root.

$usermod -G groupname username

when system admin first time creates users he can send message
like `Thanku for using redhat linux' through this & user get this
mail whenever he login.

Commandlineoptions

Option Description
-c comment Comment for the user
Home directory to be used instead of
-d home-dir
default /home/username/
Date for the account to be disabled in
-e date
the format YYYY-MM-DD
Number of days after the password
expires until the account is disabled.
(If 0 is specified, the account is
-f days disabled immediately after the password
expires. If -1 is specified, the account
is not be disabled after the password
expires.)
Group name or group number for the
-g group-name user's default group (The group must
exist prior to being specified here.)
List of additional (other than default)
group names or group numbers, separated
-G group-list by commas, of which the user is a
member. (The groups must exist prior to
being specified here.)
-m Create the home directory if it does not

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Option Description
exist
-M Do not create the home directory
Do not create a user private group for
-n
the user
Create a system account with a UID less
-r
than 500 and without a home directory
-p password The password encrypted with crypt
User's login shell, which defaults to
-s
/bin/bash
User ID for the user, which must be
-u uid
unique and greater than 499

groupadd <group-name>

Command line options

Option Description
Group ID for the group, which must be unique
-g gid
and greater than 499
Create a system group with a GID less than
-r
500
Exit with an error if the group already
exists (The group is not altered.) If -g and
-f
-f are specified, but the group already
exists, the -g option is ignored

Password aging
$chage l root
$chage -d 0 username
Change shell
$chsh <username>
FingerInformation
$chfn <username>
$finger

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 PAM

PAM library parses the config file and loads modules to it

What operating systems support PAM?

PAM was first developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995 and is
supported by the following operating system versions (and higher):
RedHat 5.0
SUSE 6.2
Debian 2.2
Mandrake 5.2
Caldera 1.3
TurboLinux 3.6

PAM is the Pluggable Authentication Module, invented by Sun. It's a

beautiful concept, but it can be confusing and even intimidating at
first. We're going to look at it on a RedHat system, but other
Linuxes will be similar - some details may vary, but the basic
ideas will be the same.
The first thing to understand is that PAM is NOT something like
tcpd (tcp wrappers) or xinetd that encloses and restricts access to
some service. An application needs to be "PAM aware"; it needs to
have been written and compiled specifically to use PAM. There are
tremendous advantages in doing so, and most applications with any
interest in security will be PAM aware.
PAM is about security - checking to see that a service should be
used or not. Most of us first learned about PAM when we were told
that login was using it, but PAM can do much more than just
validate passwords. A lot of applications now use PAM - even things
like SAMBA can call on PAM for authentication.
The big advantage here is that security is no longer the
application's concern: if PAM says its OK, its OK. That makes
things easier for the application, and it makes things easier for
the system administrator. PAM consults text configuration files to
see what security actions to take for an application, and the
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administrator can add and subtract new rules at any time. PAM is
also extensible: should someone invent a device that can read your
brain waves and determine ill intent, all we need is a PAM module
that can use that device. Change a few files, and login now reads
your mind and grants or denies access appropriately. We're a bit
away from that feature, but there are a tremendous number of
available PAM modules that administrators can use.

Configuration Files

On modern RedHat systems, the configuration files are found in

/etc/pam.d, one file for each PAM aware application (plus a special
"other" file we'll get to later). One word of warning: changes to
these files take effect instantly. You aren't going to get logged
out if you make a mistake here. but if you DO screw up and blithely
log out, you may not be able to log back in. So test changes before
you exit.
We're going to use a very simple example to get started here. In a
number of articles here, we've talked about SSH Security. Most of
those articles have been about changes to ssh's configuration
files, but here we'll use PAM to add some additional restriction:
the time of day you are allowed to use ssh. To do this, we need a
PAM module called pam_time.so - it's probably in your
/lib/security/ directory already. It uses a configuration file
"/etc/security/time.conf". That file is pretty well commented, so
I'm not going to go into detail about it and will just say that I
added the line
sshd;*;*;!Al2200-0400

which says that sshd cannot be used between 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM.
I'm usually rather soundly asleep between those times, so why let
ssh be used? I could still login at the console if I woke up with
an urgent need to see an ls of my /tmp directory, but I couldn't
ssh in, period. Configuring the time.conf file by itself doesn't
affect ssh; we need to add the pam module to /etc/pam.d/sshd. My
file ends up looking like this:
#%PAM-1.0
account required pam_time.so
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
auth required pam_nologin.so
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required pam_limits.so
session optional pam_console.so

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I put the time.so module first so that it is the very first thing
that is checked. If that module doesn't give sshd a green light,
that's the end of it: no access. That's the meaning of "required":
the module HAS to say that it is happy. The "account" type is
specified here. That's a bit of a confusing thing: we have
"account", "auth", "password" and "session". The man page isn't all
that helpful:
account - provide account verification types of service: has
the user's
password expired?; is this user permitted access to the
requested ser-
vice?

authentication - establish the user is who they claim to

be. Typically
this is via some challenge-response request that the user
must satisfy: if you are who you claim to be please enter your
password. Not all authentications are of this type, there exist
hardware based authenti-
cation schemes (such as the use of smart-cards and
biometric devices), with suitable modules, these may be
substituted seamlessly for more standard approaches to
authentication - such is the flexibility of

Linux-PAM.

password - this group's responsibility is the task of

updating authen-tication mechanisms. Typically, such services
are strongly coupled to those of the auth group. Some
authentication mechanisms lend themselves
well to being updated with such a function. Standard UN*X
password-
based access is the obvious example: please enter a
replacement pass-word.

session - this group of tasks cover things that should be

done prior to a service being given and after it is withdrawn. Such
tasks include the
maintenance of audit trails and the mounting of the user's home
direc- tory. The session management group is important as it
provides both an opening and closing hook for modules to
affect the services available to a user.

I think that the distinction between account and session in that

man page is a little confusing. I think it would be quite
reasonable to think you should use "session" for this module. Now,
sometimes you have a man page for the module that shows you what to
use, but pam_time doesn't help us there. Technically, it's not up
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to the library: the application is the one that is checking with
account or session, but keep this in mind: session happens AFTER
authentication. I liked the older PAM manual better, which said:
auth modules provide the actual authentication, perhaps
asking
for and checking a password, and they set "credentials" such
as group membership or kerberos "tickets."

account modules check to make sure that the authentication

is allowed (the account has not expired, the user is allowed
to log in at this time of day, and so on).

password modules are used to set passwords.

session modules are used once a user has been authenticated to

allow them to use their account,perhaps mounting the user's home
directory or making their mailbox available.

For me, that was more clear.

Stacking

In this case, I only wanted to apply this restriction to ssh. If

I'm physically at the box, I want no time restrictions. If I DID
want these same restrictions, I'd make the same change to
/etc/pam.d/login. But what if there are a whole bunch of things I
want to apply the same rules to? RedHat has a special module
"pam_stack". It functions much like an "include" statement in any
programming language. We saw it in my /etc/pamd/sshd file:
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth

That says to look in /etc/pam.d/system-auth for other modules to

use. Both login and sshd have this line (as does just about every
other file in /etc/pam.d/), so we can look in system-auth to see
what gets called by them:

#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.

auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so

auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
likeauth nullok
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_tally.so

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no_magic_root onerr=fail
account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_tally.so
onerr=fail file=/var/log/faillog deny=1 no_magic_root
even_deny_root_account
password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so
retry=3 type=
password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok
use_authtok md5 shadow
password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so

session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so

session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so

Therefor, if we really wanted our time restrictions to apply to

just about everything, we could add it to system-auth. Note the
warning about authconfig though, and also consider that you will be
making sudden sweeping changes to a LOT of applications and
services.

Other

What if a PAM aware app doesn't have a file in /etc/pam.d? In that

case, it uses the "other" file, which looks like this by default:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so

That "deny" module is a flat-out no access, red light, stop you

dead right here module that is always going to say no. That's
excellent from a security point of view, but can be a bit harsh
should you accidentally delete something like "login". Login would
now use the "other" file, and you couldn't login. That could be
unpleasant.
There are many, many useful and clever PAM modules. While our brain
wave interpreter doesn't exist yet, many other possibilities are
available to you. There are modules to automatically black list
hosts that have many failed logins, and much more. See
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html.

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Use of pam_listfile.so module

This PAM module authenticates users based on the contents of a

specified file. For example, if username exists in a file
/etc/sshd/ssh.allow, sshd will grant login access.

How do I configure pam_listfile.so module to deny access?

You want to block a user, if user-name exists in a file

/etc/sshd/sshd.deny file.
Open /etc/pam.d/ssh (or /etc/pam.d/sshd for RedHat and friends)
#vi/etc/pam.d/ssh
Append following line:
authrequiredpam_listfile.soitem=usersense=deny
file=/etc/sshd/sshd.denyonerr=succeed
Save and close the file
Now add all usernames to /etc/sshd/sshd.deny file. Now a user is
denied to login via sshd if they are listed in this file:
#vi/etc/sshd/sshd.deny
Append username per line:
user1
user2
...
Restart sshd service:
#/etc/init.d/sshdrestart
Understanding the config directives:
auth required pam_listfile.so : Name of module required while
authenticating users.
item=user : Check the username
sense=deny : Deny user if existing in specified file
file=/etc/sshd/sshd.deny : Name of file which contains the list
of user (one user per line)
onerr=succeed : If an error is encountered PAM will return status
PAM_SUCCESS.

How do I configure pam_listfile.so module to allow access?

You want to ALLOW a user to use ssh, if user-name exists in a

file /etc/sshd/sshd.allow file.
Open /etc/pam.d/ssh (or /etc/pam.d/sshd for RedHat and friends)
#vi/etc/pam.d/ssh
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Append following line:
authrequiredpam_listfile.soitem=usersense=allow
file=/etc/sshd/sshd.allowonerr=fail
Save and close the file.

Now add all usernames to /etc/sshd/sshd.allow file. Now a user is

allowed to login via sshd if they are listed in this file.
#vi/etc/sshd/sshd.allow
Append username per line:
tony
om
rocky

Restart sshd service (optional):

#/etc/init.d/sshdrestart
Now if paul try to login using ssh he will get an error:
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
Following log entry recorded into my log file (/var/log/secure
or /var/log/auth.log file)
tailf/var/log/auth.log
Output:
Jul 30 23:07:40 p5www2 sshd[12611]: PAM-listfile: Refused user paul
for service ssh
Jul 30 23:07:42 p5www2 sshd[12606]: error: PAM: Authentication
failure for paul from 125.12.xx.xx

Understanding the config directives:

8. auth required pam_listfile.so : Name of module required while
authenticating users.
9. item=user : Check or specify the username
10. sense=allow : Allow user if existing in specified file
11. file=/etc/sshd/sshd.allow : Name of file which contains the list
of user (one user per line)
12. onerr=fail : If filename does not exists or username formatting
is not coreect it will not allow to login.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-
PAM_MWG.html

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 LVM

Create Partitions

For this Linux lvm example you need an unpartitioned hard disk
/dev/sdb. First you need to create physical volumes. To do this you
need partitions or a whole disk. It is possible to run pvcreate
command on /dev/sdb, but I prefer to use partitions and from
partitions I later create physical volumes.

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Use your preferred partitioning tool to create partitions. In this
example I have used cfdisk.

Partitions are ready to use.

3. Create physical volumes

Use the pvcreate command to create physical volumes.
$ pvcreate /dev/sdb1
$ pvcreate /dev/sdb2
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The pvdisplay command displays all physical volumes on your system.

$ pvdisplay

Alternatively the following command should be used:

$ pvdisplay /dev/sdb1

4. Create Virtual Group

At this stage you need to create a virtual group which will serve
as a container for your physical volumes. To create a virtual group
with the name "mynew_vg" which will include /dev/sdb1 partition,
you can issue the following command:

$ vgcreate mynew_vg /dev/sdb1

To include both partitions at once you can use this command:

$ vgcreate mynew_vg /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2

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Feel free to add new physical volumes to a virtual group by using
the vgextend command.

$ vgextend mynew_vg /dev/sdb2

5. Create Logical Volumes

From your big cake (virtual group) you can cut pieces (logical
volumes) which will be treated as a partitions for your linux

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system. To create a logical volume, named "vol01", with a size of
400 MB from the virtual group "mynew_vg" use the following command:

create a logical volume of size 400 MB -L 400

create a logical volume of size 4 GB -L 4G
$ lvcreate -L 400 -n vol01 mynew_vg

With a following example you will create a logical volume with a

size of 1GB and with the name vol02:

$ lvcreate -L 1000 -n vol02 mynew_vg

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$ lvremove /dev/mynew_vg/vol02

More workAround

1. After Creating all the Partition,change the ID of that

particular partition from ID 83 to ID 8e which is assign for
LVM
2. Dont format LVM partition

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3. As we can see that to access the partition in Linux, we have
to go through /dev/had, Similarly in LVM one cannot access the
partition directly, you have to go through
4. PvPhysical Volume
5. Since we have /dev/hda5 is our /home LVM partition so we have
to create physical volume of /dev/hda5
6. $ pvdisplay
7. $ pvcreate /dev/hda5
8. $ vgscan
9. $ vgcreate myvol /dev/hda5
vgdisplay ---
10. $ lvcreate L <+lvsize> -n lv1 myvol
11. $ lvdisplay
12. $ mke2fs j /dev/myvol/lv1
13. $ mount /dev/myvol/lv1 /home
14. $ df h

More Workaround
1. Add another HDD which is connecting to motherboard as
Primary Slave
Therefore that disk should be readable by Linux as /dev/hdb
2. $ fdisk /dev/hdb
3. Create a single primary partition the size of entire disk
and change the ID of that partition to 8e.
4. Create PV of new drive which will be
$ pvcreate /dev/hdb1
5. Add this new PV into a existing VG (MYVOL)
$ vgextend myvol /dev/hdb1
6. Extend your Logical Volume into a existing LV
$ lvextend L +2000M /dev/myvol/lv1
$resize2fs /dev/myvol/lv1

7. The above command will extend Logical Volume by 2GB, which

mean our /home is above 2gb as its mounting on it by

/dev/myvol/lv1 /home ext3 default 1 2

8. $mount a
9. $ df h

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() Increase Your LVM size up to 6GB

Note: We have exiting value is 2GB, therefore to increases

LVM up to 6GB

$ lvextend L +4000M /dev/myvol/lv1

$ resize2fs /dev/myvol/lv1

() Reduce Your LVM size up to 1GB

Note: we have now LVM up to is 6GB, which have to decrease

up to 1GB, therefore

$ umount /home
$ e2fsck yc /dev/myvol/lv1
$ resize2fs /dev/myvol/lv1 1000M
$ lvreduce L 1000M /dev/myvol/lv1
$ mount a
$ df h

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The Linux Schedulers cron-cronologysequence
cronological order-date-wise

Cron job are used to schedule commands to be executed periodically

i.e. to setup commands which will repeatedly run at a set time, you
can use the cron jobs.
crontab is the command used to install, deinstall or list the
tables used to drive the cron daemon in Vixie Cron. Each user can
have their own crontab, and though these are files in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs, they are not intended to be edited
directly. You need to use crontab command for editing or setting up
your own cron jobs.
To edit your crontab file, type the following command:
$ crontab -e

Syntax of crontab
Your cron job looks like as follows:
1 2 3 4 5 /path/to/command arg1 arg2
Where,
1: Minute (0-59)
2: Hours (0-23)
3: Day (0-31)
4: Month (0-12 [12 == December])
5: Day of the week(0-7 [7 or 0 == sunday])
/path/to/command - Script or command name to schedule
Same above five fields structure can be easily remembered with
following diagram:
* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | ----- Day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
| | | ------- Month (1 - 12)
| | --------- Day of month (1 - 31)

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| ----------- Hour (0 - 23)
------------- Minute (0 - 59)

Example(s)
If you wished to have a script named /root/backup.sh run every day
at 3am, my crontab entry would look like as follows:

crond* -----> Binary or App server daemon

/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond -----> Initscript to start crond server
/etc/crontab -----> System crontab file
mins hrs DOM MOY DOW
00-59 00-23 1-31 1-12 0-7 (0=Sun 1=Mon, 2=Tue, 3=Wed,4=Thu,
5=Fri, 6=Sat and 7=Sun)
Each of the time-related fields may contain:
A '*', which matches everything, or matches any value
A single integer, which matches exactly
Two integers seperated by a dash, matching a range of values ie
8-10 in the hr field would match 8am,9am and 10am.
8-10,13 would match 8am,9am,10am and 1pm
A comma-seperated series of ints or ranges, matching any listed
value
*/2 in the hr field refers to midnote, 2am, 4am and so forth
ie the cmd is executed every 2 hrs
0-10/2 in the hr field refers to midnite, 2am, 4am, 6am, 8am and
10am

Note:

A crontab entry is considered to match the current time when the

min and hr fields match the curr time and the mth field matches
the current month

An entry is considered to match the current date when the day of

month field [3rd] matches the current day of the mth OR the day
of week [5th] field matches the current day of the week:

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 IT IS NOT NECESSARY THAT BOTH THE DAY OF THE MTH AND DAY OF
THEWEEK MATCH!

If both the time and date match the current time and date the cmd
is executed!

Never put a '*' in the first field unless u want the cmd to run
every minute

You MAY hand-edit this file but it is never necessary since run-
parts does everything. Simply put a shell script in the
appropriate /etc/cron.*/ dirs

Also the crond* daemon need not be restart. It will do just that
every minute anyway
Example: Users often forget to shutdown their machines and go
home. Hence, machine should auto shutdown at 11 pm

/etc/crontab
Install your cronjob:# crontab e
00 23 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now
b) Append following entry:
0 3 * * * /root/backup.sh

Run five minutes after midnight, every day:

5 0 * * * /path/to/command

Run at 2:15pm on the first of every month:

15 14 1 * * /path/to/command

Run at 10 pm on weekdays:
0 22 * * 1-5 /path/to/command

Run 23 minutes after midnigbt, 2am, 4am ..., everyday:

23 0-23/2 * * * /path/to/command

Run at 5 after 4 every sunday:

5 4 * * sun /path/to/command

If you run many sites, you can use this tip to make managing your
cron jobs easier. To minimize the clutter, create a /etc/cron.5min
directory and have crontab read this directory every five minutes.
*/5 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.5min
45 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source http://example.com/cron.php

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45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.example.com/cron.php

45 * * * * curl --silent --compressed http://example.com/cron.php

00 11,16 * * * /home/sadhiq/bin/incremental-backup

00 0th Minute (Top of the hour)

11,16 11 AM and 4 PM

* Every day

* Every month
00 09-18 * * * /home/ramesh/bin/check-db-status

* Every day of the week

00 0th Minute (Top of the hour)
09-18 9 am, 10 am,11 am, 12 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, 6
pm
* Every day
* Every month
* Every day of the week
*/10 * * * * /home/sadhiq/check-disk-space

Cron jobs saved in to /var/spool/cron/$username

$ crontab l --> To list your crontab jobs

$ crontab r --> To remove or erase all crontab jobs

Use special string to save time

Instead of the first five fields, you can use any one of eight
special strings. It will not just save your time but it will
improve readability.

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 Special string Meaning

@reboot Run once, at startup.

@yearly Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *".

@annually (same as @yearly)

@monthly Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *".

@weekly Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0".

@daily Run once a day, "0 0 * * *".

@midnight (same as @daily)

@hourly Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".

Run ntpdate every hour:

@hourly /path/to/ntpdate

Typical /etc/crontab file entries:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
$ run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

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Directory Description
/etc/cron.d/ Put all scripts here and call them from
/etc/crontab file.
/etc/cron.daily/ Run all scripts once a day
/etc/cron.hourly/ Run all scripts once an hour
/etc/cron.monthly/ Run all scripts once a month
/etc/cron.weekly/ Run all scripts once a week

How do I use above directories to put scripts?

Here is a sample shell script (clean.cache) to clean up cached
files every 10 days. This script is directly created at
/etc/cron.daliy/ directory i.e. create a file called
/etc/cron.daily/clean.cache:
#!/bin/bash

CROOT="/tmp/cachelighttpd/"
DAYS=10
LUSER="lighttpd"
LGROUP="lighttpd"

# start cleaning
/usr/bin/find ${CROOT} -type f -mtime +${DAYS} | xargs -r /bin/rm

# if directory deleted by some other script just get it back

if [ ! -d $CROOT ]
then
/bin/mkdir -p $CROOT
/bin/chown ${LUSER}:${LGROUP} ${CROOT}
fi

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 Cron Access Perms

/etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny

If a user is only in /etc/cron.allow, then all others are denied
If a user is only in /etc/cron.deny then all others are allowed/not
affected
If cron.deny is touched, then no users is allowed to create a
crontab
If cron.allow is touched, then no users is allowed to create a
crontab

AT
'at' executes a command once on a particular day, at a particular
time. at will add a particular command to be executed.
Examples:
$ at 21:30
You then type the commands you want executed then press the end-of-
file character (normally CTRL-D ). Also try:
$ at now + time
This will run at at the current time + the hours/mins/seconds you
specify (use at now + 1 hour to have command(s) run in 1 hour from
now...)
You can also use the -f option to have at execute a particular file
(a shell script).
$ at -f shell_script now + 1 hour
This would run the shell script 1 hour from now.
atq Will list jobs currently in queue for the user who executed it,
if root executes at it will list all jobs in queue for the at
daemon. Doesn't need or take any options.
atrm Will remove a job from the 'at' queue.

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Command syntax:
$ atrm job_no
Will delete the job "job_no" (use atq to find out the number of the
job)
$ at -f myjobs.txt now + 1 hour
$ at -f myjob now + 1 min
$ at 10 am tomorrow
$ at 11:00 next month
$ at 22:00 today
$ at now + 1 week
$ at noon

Anacron
anacron is another tool designed for systems which are not always
on, such as home computers.
While cron will not run if the computer is off, anacron will simply
run the command when the computer is next on (it catches up with
things).

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 Quota
Important Note:
1. Quotas can only be created for partitions.
2. Quota is of two types, user and group.
3. If 1 MB quota is set for the partition /home, then every
directory under /home or every user on the system, since each
directory in /home represents an user, can use a max of 1 MB.

Enabling Quotas
1. Go to /etc/fstab and in the permissions field, enter "usrquota"
followed by a "," for the partition where you want to enable quota
in our case /home.
Note: If you want to enable group quota then enter "grpquota"
instead of "usrquota"
Reboot and directly jump to step 5! else...
2. Unmount and mount /home for the changes to take effect
$ umount /home
$ mount /home
or
$ mount -o remount /home

Note:If the system is rebooted after step 2 skip step 3&4 and jump
to step 5.
3. To scan /home and enable quota
$ quotacheck -vcu /home
4. To turn on quota on /home
$ quotaon -v /home
5. To check if quota is on or not
$ repquota -a

Implementing Quotas
6. To edit quota for a user
$ edquota -u <username>

Note: u stands for user, for group type g and give groupname

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7. To edit grace period
$ edquota -t
8. To copy a quota setting of one user to another user
$ edquota -p <source_user> <user> OR

For all users

$ edquota -p <source_user> `awk -F: '$3>499 {print $1}'
/etc/passwd`

Repairing aquota.user file

9. Boot in single mode
10. Turn off quotas
$ quotaoff -v /home
Enable Quota on Filesytem -> /home
Cond: if there is no /home partition, imply quota on / filesystem
Practical
$ vi /etc/fstab
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota 0 0
Remount the /home filesystem with usrquota parameters
$ mount -o remount /home
Confirm whether usrquota is implied
$ mount
It should like this:
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw,usrquota)
Create quota database file i.e aquota.user on /home
$ quotacheck -cuv /home --> This creates aquota.user under /home
Enable the quota on /home
$ quotaon /home

Set user level quota on user neo restricting the size below 70k

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$ edquota -u neo
This opens up a temp file under /tmp and vi as a editor
Disk quotas for user neo (uid 529):
<---- file size quota ----------> | <------ No. of files quota -->
Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft
hard
/dev/hda7 11 50 69 11 0
0

Quota Implemented for the user gets updated in /home/aquota.user

Confirm quota really works or not
Login as neo
$ su - neo
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/neo/data.tmp bs=1k count=70
This should show the below error
------------------------------------------------------
warning, user block quota exceeded.
dd: writing data.tmp: Disk quota exceeded
------------------------------------------------------

If user neo wants to view his own quota

$ quota

As a root user you would be interested in viewing the quota

statistics on user level basis.
# repquota -a

How to enable grpquota i.e. Group Quota

$ vi /etc/fstab
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 0
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Remount the /home filesystem with usrquota and grpquota parameters
$ mount -o remount /home
Confirm whether usrquota is implied
$ mount
It should look like this:
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw,usrquota,grpquota)

Create quota database file i.e aquota.group, aquota.user on /home

$ quotacheck -cugv /home
--> This creates aquota.group, aquota.user under /home
How to set grpquota
$ edquota -g ADMINS

How to disable quota

# quotaoff /home

How to imply the quota settings meant for user neo onto user champu
# edquota -p neo jane
Commands
quota - display disk usage and limits
rquota - implement quotas on remote machines
fstab - static information about the filesystems
edquota - edit user quotas
setquota - set disk quotas (Command line editor)
quotacheck - scan a filesystem for disk usage, create, check and
repair quota files
quotaon - turn filesystem quotas on
quotaoff - turn filesystem quotas off

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 Kernel Compilation
if you want to update the kernel from new source code you have
downloaded, or you have applied a patch to add new functionality or
hardware support, you will need to compile and install a new kernel
to actually use that new functionality. Compiling the kernel
involves translating the kernel's contents from human-readable code
to binary form. Installing the kernel involves putting all the
compiled files where they belong in /boot and /lib and making
changes to the bootloader.
The process of compiling the kernel is almost completely automated
by the make utility as is the process of installing. By providing
the necessary arguments and following the steps covered next, you
can recompile and install a custom kernel for your use.

Basically, there are three types of kernel:

- Monolithic Kernel - Micro Kernel - ExoKernel
Monolithic: As the name itself suggests, the kernel has every
services like, FS Management, MM, Process Management, etc. in the
kernel space. It does not run as a seperate process. So, as you
guess, there is no context switching, when you ask for a service.
But, the probability of a monolithic kernel getting struck is more.
Because, if there is a bug in the kernel itself, nothing can rescue
it. Linux and Windows are good examples of Monolithic kernel.
Linux, being a monolithic kernel, you can insert modules into the
kernel dynamically using insmod command.
Micro Kernel: Micro kernel runs all the services as a daemon in the
user space. So, if a problem occurs in any of the service, the
kernel will be able to decide what to do next. But, you pay-off the
time to switch to a service in this type of kernel. Micro kernels
are some what difficult to design and build than the monolithic
kernel. There are always a discussion over the internet, talking
about the advantage and disadvantages of monolithic and micro
kernel.
Exo Kernel: Exo kernel is not yet stabilized. It's under design and
research. The user mode processes running in this type of kernel
has the ability to access kernel resources like process tables, etc
directly.

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Structure of monolithic and microkernel-based operating systems,
respectively

Compilation
Steps to compile kernel - Redhat 9

Install dep
kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm
binutils-2.13.90.0.18-9.i386.rpm
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10.i386.rpm
cpp-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
gcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
libgcc-3.2.2-5.i386.rpm
glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
ncurses-5.3-4.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm
ncurses-devel-5.3-4.i386.rpm

Once these all dependencies are installed:

1) Go to /usr/src/linux-2.4/

2) edit Makefile [Top-Level]

parameter EXTRAVERSION=-8champu

3) make mrproper [delete the .config]

architecture
4) cp /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config [see
uname -m]
/usr/src/linux-2.4/.config
or simply

cp -p configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config .config

5) make oldconfig - To update the .config with running kernel

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parameters

6) make config / make menuconfig (for Text) / make xconfig - make

necessary changes enable ntfs disable sound & bluetooth

7) make dep - checks dependecies & construts MAKEFILE.

8) make clean - cleans unwanted files form memory loaded by

above commands.

9) make bzImage - Actual kernel compilation process

10) make modules Actual KLM compilation process

11) make modules_install #check in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8champu/

12) cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8champu

13) cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/System.map
/boot/System.map-2.4.20-8champu

14) cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/.config /boot/config-2.4.20-8champu

[OPTIONAL]

15) mkintrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8champu.img 2.4.20-8champu

16) vi /etc/grub.conf #Add the new customized kernel entries

title REDHAT 9champu (customized)

root (hd0,8)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8champu ro root=/dev/hda11 rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8champu.img

note hd0,8 for boot partition - (/dev/hda9 -1=hda8) (/de/hda11

is /)

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17) reboot

Centos 5 Steps to compile kernel 2.6 :-

1> copy kernel tarball file ino /usr/src/kernels/ location & untar
into that location
2>tar -jxvf /usr/src/kernels/ linux-2.6. 18.2.tar. bz2
3>cd /usr/src/kernels/ linux-2.6. 18.2
4>make gconfig (graphical)
make menuconfig (text)
5> make clean
6> make bzImage
7> make modules
8> make modules_install
9>cp arch/i386/boot/ bzImage /boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.18-2
10>cp /usr/src/kernels/ linux-2.6. 18.2/System. map /boot/System.
map-2.6.18- 2
11>ln -s /boot/System. map-2.6.18- 2 /boot/System. map
12> Create initrd :--
$first check into /lib/modules/ 2.6.18.2 --> this is created or not
then execute next command
mkinitrd /boot/initrd- 2.6.18.2. img 2.6.18.2
Final Steps
$vi /etc/grub.conf
default=0
timeout=77
splashimage= (hd0,0)/grub/ splash.xpm. gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-34.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6. 9-34.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6. 9-34.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.18.2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6. 18-2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6. 18.2.img

Kernel Definition
http://www.linfo.org/kernel.html

Kernel compilation
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/compiling-linux-kernel-26.html
http://book.opensourceproject.org.cn/distrib/ubuntu/unleashed/opens
ource/0672329093/ch35lev1sec7.html
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

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This is one the essential and important task. Many time we upgrade
our kernel and some precompiled drivers won't work with Linux.
Especially if you have weird hardware; then vendor may send you
driver code aka C files to compile. Or even you can write your own
Linux kernel driver. Compiling kernel driver is easy. Kernel 2.6.xx
makes it even much more easier. Following steps are required to
compile driver as module:
1) You need running kernel source code; if you don't have a source
code download it from kernel.org. Untar kernel source code (tar
ball) in /usr/src using tar command:
$tarzxvfkernel*C/usr/src
To be frank kernel headers are more than sufficient to compile
kernel modules / drivers. See how to install kernel headers under
Debian / Ubuntu Linux or RHEL / CentOS / Fedora Linux.
Next go to your kernel module source code directory and simply
create the Makefile file as follows (assuming your kernel module
name is foo):
$viMakefile

3) Add following text to it:

obj-m = foo.o
KVERSION = $(shell uname -r)
all:
make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) clean

4) Compile module using make command (module build can be done by

any user) :
$ make
It will finally creates the foo.ko module in current directory. You
can see all actual compile command stored in .foo* files in same
directory.

5) Once module compiled successfully, load it using insmod or

modprobe command. You need to be root user or privileged user to
run insmod:
#insmodfoo.ko

Example: hello.c module

1) hello.c C source code. Copy following code and save to hello.c

$mkdirdemo;cddemo
$vihello.c
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2)Add following c source code to it:
#include <linux/module.h> /* Needed by all modules */
#include <linux/kernel.h> /* Needed for KERN_INFO */
#include <linux/init.h> /* Needed for the macros */

static int __init hello_start(void)

{
printk(KERN_INFO "Loading hello module...\n");
printk(KERN_INFO "Hello world\n");
return 0;
}

static void __exit hello_end(void)

{
printk(KERN_INFO "Goodbye Mr.\n");
}

module_init(hello_start);
module_exit(hello_end);

This is an example modified from original source for demonstration

purpose.

3) Save the file. Create new Makefile as follows:

$viMakefile
Append following make commands:
obj-m = hello.o
KVERSION = $(shell uname -r)
all:
make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) clean

4) Save and close the file.

5) Compile hello.c module:
$make

6) Become a root user (use su or sudo) and load the module:

$su
$insmodhello.ko
Note you can see message on screen if you are logged in as root
under run level 3.

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7) Verify that module loaded:
$lsmod|less

8) See message in /var/log/message file:

$tailf/var/log/message

9) Unload the module:

$rmmodhello

10) Load module when Linux system comes up. File /etc/modules use
to load kernel boot time. This file should contain the names of
kernel modules that are to be loaded at boot time, one per line.
First copy your module to /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers.
Following are suggested steps:
(a) Create directory for hello module:
$mkdirp/lib/modules/$(unamer)/kernel/drivers/hello
(b) Copy module:
$cphello.ko/lib/modules/$(unamer)/kernel/drivers/hello/
(c) Edit /etc/modules file under Debian Linux:
$vi/etc/modules
(d) Add following line to it:
hello
(e) Reboot to see changes. Use lsmod or dmesg command to verify
module loaded or not.
$cat/proc/modules
OR
$lsmod|less
Most people have a fairly recent kernel. But since the kernel is
constantly being updated, people on modems (such as myself) don't
like downloading the whole source everytime a new version of the
kernel comes out... It is a pain to download 14+ megs of stuff when
95% of it is the same stuff that you already have in your kernel
source diectory.
For this reason, kernel patches are released. Kernel patches
contain only the files that have changed since the last kernel,
hence making it less of a pain to upgrade.
It is a good idea to back up your old kernel tree before you do
anything to it, just in case something messes up. To do this, do
the following:
Become root and then go into your kernel source directory (for me
it was /usr/src/linux-2.2.10) and do a 'make clean' to clean it up
so you don't compress a lot of crap you don't need as follows

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# cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.10
# make clean

Now you need to go to backup the tree, I did this by doing the
following:
# cd /usr/src/
# tar zcvf linux-2.2.10-tree.tar.gz linux-2.2.10

Now with that backed up, you can go ahead and change the stuff with
less worrying...
If you have kernel 2.2.10, like I did, and 2.2.12 is the current
stable release (or at least it is as I am writing this) you need
all of the patch files after 2.2.10. So in my case, I needed to get
patch-2.2.11.gz and patch-2.2.12.gz
http://www.kernelnotes.org is where I got mine from, but I'm sure
there are mirrors where you can get the patches from, more on this
is on www.kernelnotes.org.
Note: When I downloaded this file using netscape, it un-gzipped it
for me as it was downloading... so I didn't have to do the
following step that you would have to do if you were using a
program such as 'ftp'
un-gzip the file by doing the following:
# gzip -d patch-2.2.11.gz
# gzip -d patch-2.2.12.gz
This will leave you with patch-2.2.11 and patch-2.2.12 (unless you
downloaded the file with netscape, and this step would already have
been done for you)
Now move the files to your kernel source directory (using the mv
command,
mv patch-2.2.* /usr/src/linux-2.2.10
Now change into your kernel source directory (/usr/src/linux-2.2.10
in my case)
Now you need to apply the patch the the source... Order is
important here. Start with the lowest and go to the highest, like
the following:
# patch -p1 < patch-2.2.11
# patch -p1 < patch-2.2.12
Both of these commands will give you lots of output telling you
what files are being patched, etc.
After I applied the patches, I went ahead and renamed my source
directory to reflect the patches applied (mv /usr/src/linux-

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2.2.10 /usr/src/linux-2.2.12) and then I removed the old
/usr/src/linux link and replaced it with the new location (rm
/usr/src/linux and then ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.2.12 /usr/src/linux)
Now just compile your kernel

Kernel Patch with .KO

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/compiling-linux-kernel-module.html

Patch
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-patch-running-linux-
kernel.html

Patch O Matic
http://www.fifi.org/doc/iptables-dev/html/netfilter-extensions-
HOWTO-2.html

Patch without reboots - Ksplice

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-centos-redhat-hotfix-patch-
linux-kernel.html

Faq
http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

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 Kernel Tuning
Kernel tuning with sysctl
The Linux kernel is flexible, and you can even modify the way it
works on the fly by dynamically changing some of its parameters,
thanks to the sysctl command. Sysctl provides an interface that
allows you to examine and change several hundred kernel parameters
in Linux or BSD. Changes take effect immediately, and there's even
a way to make them persist after a reboot. By using sysctl
judiciously, you can optimize your box without having to recompile
your kernel, and get the results immediately.
To start getting a taste of what sysctl can modify, run sysctla
and you will see all the possible parameters. The list can be quite
long: in my current box there are 712 possible settings.

$ sysctl -a
kernel.panic = 0
kernel.core_uses_pid = 0
kernel.core_pattern = core
kernel.tainted = 129

...many lines snipped...

If you want to get the value of just a single variable, use

something like sysctl vm.swappiness, or just sysctl vm to list all
variables that start with "vm." Add the -n option to output just
the variable values, without the names; -N has the opposite effect,
and produces the names but not the values.
You can change any variable by using the -w option with the syntax
sysctl -w variable=value. For example, sysctl -w
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1 sets the corresponding variable to
true (0 equals "no" or "false"; 1 means "yes" or "true") thus
allowing IP6 forwarding. You may not even need the -w option -- it
seems to be deprecated. Do some experimenting on your own to
confirm that.

sysctl values are loaded at boot time from the /etc/sysctl.conf

file. This file can have blank lines, comments (lines starting
either with a "#" character or a semicolon), and lines in the
"variable=value" format. For example, my own sysctl.conf file is
listed below. If you want to apply it at any time, you can do so
with the command sysctlp.
# Disable response to broadcasts.
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1

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# enable route verification on all interfaces
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1

# enable ipV6 forwarding

net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1

# increase the number of possible inotify(7) watches

fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536

sysctl and the /proc directory

The /proc/sys virtual directory also provides an interface to the
sysctl parameters, allowing you to examine and change them. For
example, the /proc/sys/vm/swappiness file is equivalent to the
vm.swappiness parameter in sysctl.conf; just forget the initial
"/proc/sys/" part, substitute dots for the slashes, and you get the
corresponding sysctl parameter. (By the way, the substitution is
not actually required; slashes are also accepted, though it seems
everybody goes for the notation with the dots instead.) Thus, echo
10 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness is exactly the same as sysctl -w
vm.swappiness=10. But as a rule of thumb, if a /proc/sys file is
read-only, you cannot set it with sysctl either.

linux network optimize with sysctl

Disabling the TCP options reduces the overhead of each TCP packet
and might help to get the last few percent of performance out of
the server. Be aware that disabling these options most likely
decreases performance for high-latency and lossy links.
* net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0
* net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0

Increasing the TCP send and receive buffers will increase the
performance a lot if (and only if) you have a lot of large files to
send.
* net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 524288
* net.core.wmem_max = 1048576
If you have a lot of large file uploads, increasing the receive
buffers will help.
* net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 524288
* net.core.rmem_max = 1048576
# These ensure that TIME_WAIT ports either get reused or closed
fast.
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1
# TCP memory
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216

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net.core.rmem_default = 16777216
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 262144
net.core.somaxconn = 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans = 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2
net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 2
# you shouldnt be using conntrack on a heavily loaded server
anyway, but these are
# suitably high for our uses, insuring that if conntrack gets
turned on, the box doesnt die
net.ipv4.ip_conntrack_max = 1048576
net.nf_conntrack_max = 1048576

#increaseLinuxTCPbufferlimits
echo8388608>/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
echo8388608>/proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
# increase Linux autotuning TCP buffer limits
echo "4096 87380 8388608" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem
echo "4096 65536 8388608" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
#echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max # physical RAM * 256/4
echo "1024 65000" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
#echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
echo 8192 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog
# Decrease the time default value for tcp_fin_timeout connection
#echo 30 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout
#echo 3 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries
#echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries1
# Decrease the time default value for tcp_keepalive_time connection
#echo 1800 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time
# Turn off tcp_window_scaling
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
#echo "67108864" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
# Turn off the tcp_sack
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack # This disables RFC2018 TCP
Selective Acknowledgements
#Turn off tcp_timestamps
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps # This disables RFC1323
TCP timestamps
echo 5 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic # reboot 5 minutes later then
kernel panic

the third:
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
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net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216

Refrence

http://shebangme.blogspot.com/2010/07/kernel-sysctl-configuration-
file-for.html
swappiness
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146599

Device driver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver
Lsmod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsmod
Modprobe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modprobe
Oracle + sysctl
http://www.puschitz.com/TuningLinuxForOracle.shtml
http://www.puschitz.com/TuningLinuxForOracle.shtml#SettingSHMMAXPar
ameter
http://www.puschitz.com/TuningLinuxForOracle.shtml#TheSEMMSLParamet
er

Refrence
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/126718
http://www.fcicq.net/wp/?p=197
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-procfs-file-descriptors.html
http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel_module_configuration
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/blade-server-disable-floppy-driver-
module.html

Blacklist
Just open your /etc/modprobe.conf file and turn of auto loading
using
following syntax:
alias driver-name off
If you are using Debian / Ubuntu Linux...

open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file and add drivername using

following syntax:
blacklist driver-name

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Linux Kernel Magic SysRq keys

Kernel offers you something that allows you to recover your system
from a crash or at the least lets you to perform a proper shutdown
using the Magic SysRq Keys. The magic SysRq key is a select key
combination in the Linux kernel which allows the user to perform
various low level commands regardless of the systems state using
the SysRq key. It is often used to recover from freezes, or to
reboot a computer without corrupting the filesystem.

How do I use the magic SysRq keys in emergency?

You need to use following key combination in order to

reboot/halt/sync file system etc:
ALT+SysRq+COMMAND-KEY
The 'SysRq' key is also known as the 'Print Screen' key. COMMAND-
KEY can be any one of the following (all keys need to hit
simultaneously) :
'b' : Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or
unmounting your disks.
'o' : Will shutdown your system off (if configured and
supported).
's': Will attempt to sync all mounted filesystems.
'u' : Will attempt to remount all mounted filesystems read-only.
'e' : Send a SIGTERM to all processes, except for init.
'h': Show help, indeed this the one you need to remember.
So whey you need to tell your Linux computer to reboot or when your
X server is crashed or you don't see anything going across the
screen then just press:
ALT+SysRQ+s : (Press and hold down ALT, then SysRQ (Print Screen)
key and press 's') -Will try to syn all mounted system
ALT+SysRQ+r : (Press and hold down ALT, then SysRQ (Print Screen)
key and press 'r') -Will reboot the system.
If you wish to shutdown the system instead of reboot then press
following key combination:
ALT+SysRQ+o
ipt_sysrq is a new iptables target that allows you to do the same
as the magic sysrq key on a keyboard does, but over the network.
Sometimes a remote server hangs and only responds to icmp echo
request (ping). Every administrator of such machine is very unhappy
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because (s)he must go there and press the reset button. It takes a
long time and it's inconvenient. So use the Network Magic SysRq and
you will be able to do more than just pressing a reset button. You
can remotely sync disks, remount them read-only, then do a reboot.
And everything comfortably and only in a few seconds. Please see
Marek Zelem page to enableIP Tables network magic SysRq function.

The magic Sysrq key basically has a key combination of <ALT> +

<SysRq or Prnt Scrn> + <Command key>.
The command key can be one of the following providing a specific
functionality
b Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or
unmounting your disks.

c Will perform a kexec reboot in order to take a crashdump.

d Shows all locks that are held.

e Send a SIGTERM to all processes, except for init.

f Will call oom_kill to kill a memory hog process.

g Used by kgdb on ppc and sh platforms.

h Will display help (actually any other key than those

listed here will display help. but h is easy to remember

i Send a SIGKILL to all processes, except for init.

k Secure Access Key (SAK) Kills all programs on the current

virtual console. NOTE: See important comments below in SAK
section.

m Will dump current memory info to your console.

n Used to make RT tasks nice-able

o Will shut your system off (if configured and supported).

p Will dump the current registers and flags to your

console.

q Will dump a list of all running timers.

r Turns off keyboard raw mode and sets it to XLATE.

s Will attempt to sync all mounted filesystems.

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t Will dump a list of current tasks and their information
to your console.

u Will attempt to remount all mounted filesystems read-

only.

v Dumps Voyager SMP processor info to your console.

w Dumps tasks that are in uninterruptable (blocked) state.

x Used by xmon interface on ppc/powerpc platforms.

0-9 Sets the console log level, controlling which kernel

messages will be printed to your console. (0, for example
would make it so that only emergency messages like PANICs or
OOPSes would make it to your console.)

Ref -
http://www.susegeek.com/general/linux-kernel-magic-sysrq-keys-in-
opensuse-for-crash-recovery/
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reboot-linux-box-after-a-kernel-
panic.html
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reboot-or-halt-linux-system-in-
emergency.html

In computing, a device driver or software driver is a computer

program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a
hardware device.

A driver typically communicates with the device through the

computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware
connects. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver,
the driver issues commands to the device. Once the device sends
data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the
original calling program. Drivers are hardware-dependent and
operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt
handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent
hardware interface.

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Operatingsystems

The mknod command

MAKEDEV is the preferred way of creating device files which are not
present. However sometimes the MAKEDEV script will not know about
the device file you wish to create. This is where the mknod command
comes in. In order to use mknod you need to know the major and
minor node numbers for the device you wish to create. The
devices.txt file in the kernel source documentation is the
canonical source of this information.
To take an example, let us suppose that our version of the MAKEDEV
script does not know how to create the /dev/ttyS0 device file. We
need to use mknod to create it. We know from looking at the
devices.txt file that it should be a character device with major
number 4 and minor number 64. So we now know all we need to create
the file.

# mknod/dev/ttyS0c464
# chownroot.dialout/dev/ttyS0
# chmod0644/dev/ttyS0
# lsl/dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Oct 23 18:23 /dev/ttyS0

As you can see, many more steps are required to create the file. In
this example you can see the process required however. It is
unlikely in the extreme that the ttyS0 file would not be provided
by the MAKEDEV script, but it suffices to illustrate the point.

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$mknod /opt/champu b 3 10
$mount /opt/champu /home

1. lsmod
2. insmod
3. rmmod
4. modprobe
5. modinfo
6. depmod

lsmod is a command on Linux systems which prints the contents of

the /proc/modules file. It shows which loadable kernel modules are
currently loaded.
Abridged example output:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
af_packet 27392 2
8139too 30592 0
snd_cs46xx 96872 3
snd_pcm_oss 55808 1
snd_mixer_oss 21760 2 snd_pcm_oss
ip6table_filter 7424 1
ip6_tables 19728 1 ip6table_filter
ipv6 290404 22
xfs 568384 4
sis900 18052 5
libata 169920 1 pata_sis
scsi_mod 158316 3 usb_storage,sd_mod,libata
usbcore 155312 6 ohci_hcd, usb_storage, usbhid

lsmod

First column is Module name and second column is size of modules

i..e
the output format is module name, size, use count, list of
referring
modules.

modprobe is a Linux program originally written by Rusty Russell

used to add a loadable kernel module (LKM) to the Linux kernel or
remove an LKM from the kernel. It is commonly used indirectly as
udev relies upon modprobe to load drivers for automatically
detected hardware.

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 Networking
Tools
$ifconfig
$neat-tui
$/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
$netconfig
$ethtool
$ip r l
$telnet
$nmap
$netstat
$ping
$route
$traceroute
$tcpdump n/w traffic tool
$iptraf - Monitor n/w traffic.curses-based tool - Self-
explanatory
$etheral - Network Analyzers which does data capture and
filtering
$tethral - Captures and displays only the high level protocols

$ ifconfig --> Status of all interfaces

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:FC:2A:2C:48
inet addr:192.0.34.7 Bcast:192.0.34.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

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 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:CC:AA:2C:9C
inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1407 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1407 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:149180 (145.6 Kb) TX bytes:149180 (145.6 Kb)

$ ifconfig eth0 --> Status of eth0 interface

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:FC:2A:2C:48

inet addr:192.0.34.7 Bcast:192.0.34.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

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 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000
$ ifconfig eth0 IP --> Set eth0 to IP
$ ifconfig eth0 IP:x --> Set eth0 to multiplexed IP
$ ifconfig eth0 down --> Bring eth0 down
$ ifdown eth0 --> ditto
$ ifconfig eth0 up --> Bring eth0 up
$ ifup eth0 --> ditto
$ ifconfig eth0 -arp --> Disable use of arp protocol on this
interface

$ ifconfig eth0 -allmulti

Enable or disable all-multicast mode. If selected, all multi-cast
packets on the network will be received by the interface.

$ ifconfig eth0 -promisc

Turn off promiscuous mode of the interface eth0. If on, tells the
interface to send all traffic on the NW to the kernel, not just
traffic addressed to the m/c Check with ifconfig or netstat -i

$ ifconfig eth0 hw ether CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC

Changes the MAC address. Do a 'ifconfig eth0 down' first,change,
then 'ifconfig eth0 up'. MAC addr is changed.

$ ifconfig eth0 172.16.1.77 broadcast 172.16.1.255 netmask

255.255.0.0
Changes IP/BC/netmask all in one go!

$ ifconfig eth0 mtu 800

Change mtu to 800

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ethtool - Display or change ethernet card settings
$ ethtool ethX
$ ethtool -h
$ ethtool -a ethX
$ ethtool -A ethX [autoneg on|off] [rx on|off] [tx on|off]
$ ethtool -c ethX
$ ethtool -C ethX [adaptive-rx on|off] [adaptive-tx on|off] [rx-
usecs N] [rx-frames N] [rx-usecs-irq N] [rx-frames-irq N]
[tx-usecs N] [tx-frames N] [tx-usecs-irq N] [tx-frames-irq N]
[stats-block-usecs N] [pkt-rate-low N] [rx-usecs-low N] [rx-frames-
low N] [tx-usecs-low N] [tx-frames-low N] [pkt-rate-high N]
[rx-usecs-high N] [rx-frames-high N] [tx-usecs-high N]
[tx-frames-high N] [sample-interval N]
$ ethtool -g ethX
$ ethtool -G ethX [rx N] [rx-mini N] [rx-jumbo N] [tx N]
$ ethtool -i ethX
$ ethtool -d ethX
$ ethtool -e ethX
$ ethtool -k ethX
$ ethtool -K ethX [rx on|off] [tx on|off] [sg on|off]
$ ethtool -p ethX [N]
$ ethtool -r ethX
$ ethtool -S ethX
$ ethtool -t ethX [offline|online]

$ man ethtool

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ping - TCP/IP Diagnostic Tool
Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts

There are two types of ping -

The std Unix ping which sends a ICMP ECHO REQUEST and receives a
ICMP ECHO REPLY frim the remote host if it is UP and running

The other is to send a UDP or TCP pkt to port 7 [echo] of the

remote host and see that whatever you type is echoed back. The
host is UP.

$ telnet remote-host echo or 7

and whatever you type will be echoed back to you. system is
alive !
$ ping -c -a -n IP/Hostname [Count/AudiblePing/No Name Resolution]
ping send a packet of 64 bytes by def. The size if 56 ICMP data
bytes + 8 bytes for the header data.

$ ping -s 1600 203.12.10.20

Send a larger pkt size than the MTU of Ethernet [1500], you can
force fragmentation. You can then identify low-level media issue or
a congested NW. Since ping works at the IP layer, no server process
[HTTP/DNS] is reqd to be running on the target host. Just a running
kernel.
Check the ICMP seq no to see that no pkts are dropped and are in
sequence.
Run
$ traceroute --> to get the path the pkt is taking and then
track down the
offending mid-way routers by pinging each in succession.

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$ route ['add'/'del'] [-net|-host] 'addr' {gw 'IP'} {netmask
'mask'}
'interface'
Default route:
/etc/sysconfig/network
GATEWAY=IP
or
route add default gw gateway-IP-addr
Routing determines path a pkt takes from its source thru a maze of
NWs to dest.
Like asking for directions in an unfamiliar place. A person may
point you tothe right city, another to a street, another to the
right bldg.
Routing is done at the IP layer.
When a pkt bound for some other host arrives, the path is found by
matching the dest IP addr against the Kernel Routing Table [KRT].
If it matches a route in the KRT, the pkt is fwd'ed to the 'next-
hop gateway' IP addr associated with the route.
Two special cases are possible here:
Case I: pkt may be destined for some host on a directly connected
NW. In this case the 'next-hop gateway' IP addr in the KRT will be
one of the localhosts own interfaces and the pkt is sent directly
to its dest. The type of route is what you normally do with the
ifconfig cmd when you configure and interface.
Case II: No route in the KRT matches the dest addr that the pkt
wishes to reach. The default route [Gateway] is invoked. Or an
error. Most NWs have only one way out and that is the default
route. On the Internet backbone, the routers do not have default
routes. The buck stops here. If they do not have a routing entry
for a dest, the dest cannot be reached and a "network unreachable"
ICMP error is sent to the sender
The KRT contains info like "To get to NW X from m/c Y, send pkt to
m/c Z with a cost of 1 [metric], alongwith TTL and reliability
values for that route.
Routing Policy:
Static routes : For small unconnected NWs
Dynamic routes : Many subnets, large NWs, connected to the
Internet

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 Static/Dyn :
$ route

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
192.0.34.0 0.0.0.0. 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0. 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth1
127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 lo
0.0.0.0. 192.0.34.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0

$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
Use Iface
1. 132.236.227.0 132.236.227.93 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
2. 132.236.212.0 132.236.212.1 255.255.255.192 U 0 0
0 eth1
3. 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 lo
4. default 132.236.227.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0
5. 132.236.220.64 132.236.212.6 255.255.255.192 UG 0 0
0 eth1

Routes 1 and 2 were added by ifconfig when the eth0 and eth1
interfaces were configured at bootup

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This means to reach machine 132.236.227.93 on the NW 132.236.227.0
the GW is machine 132.236.227.93 - the machine itself is its GW
which implies it can be reached directly on this NW and one has to
go to no other m/c to consult.
Ditto for the next one.
Route 3 is the loopback interface, a pseudo-device that prevents
pkts sent from the host to itself from going out on the NW;
instead, they are transferred directly route add default gw
132.236.227.1 eth0
Route 4 is the default route.
It says :
Pkts not explicitly addressed to any of the 3 NWs listed [or
to the m/c itself] will be sent to the default GW host,
132.236.227.1
Route 5 says :
To reach NW 132.236.220.64/26, pkts must be sent GW host
132.236.212.6 thru eth1.

netstat - Monitoring your TCP/IP NW

Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics,
masquerade connections, and multicast memberships.
$ netstat -a :
Displays status of all active connections, including Inactive
[listening] servers waiting for connects
$ netstat -l :
Show only inactive or listening connections, not establised
$ netstat -p :
Show the PID and name of the program to which each socket
belongs
$ netstat -o :
Include information related to networking timers
$ netstat -r :
Show the kernel routing table
$ netstat vatnp | grep <servicename>
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$ netstat tulnp | grep <servicename>

State : TCP/IP connection [socket] state

ESTABLISHED
The socket has an established connection.
SYN_SENT
The socket is actively attempting to establish a
connection to the remote host

Debug Note :
If you find a connection that stays in this state, then
a local process is trying very hard to contact a non-existent or
inaccessible NW server.
SYN_RECV
A connection request has been received from a remote
host and is being initialized

FIN_WAIT1
The socket is closed, and the connection is shutting
down.
FIN_WAIT2
Connection is closed, and the socket is waiting for a
shutdown from the remote end.
TIME_WAIT
The socket is waiting after close to handle packets
still in thenetwork.
CLOSED The socket is not being used.
CLOSE_WAIT
The remote host end has shut down its connection, and
the localhost is waiting for the socket to close.

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LAST_ACK
The remote end has shut down, and the socket is closed.
Waiting for acknowledgement.

LISTEN The socket is listening for incoming connections.Specify -l

option to see this.

CLOSING
Both sockets are shut down but we still dont have
all our data sent.
UNKNOWN
The state of the socket is unknown.
USER The login ID of the user who owns the socket

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 FTP

Active FTP
Passive FTP
Users
Regular FTP
Anonymous FTP
Vsftpd.conf
anon_root=/data/directory
# Allow anonymous FTP?
anonymous_enable=YES
# The directory which vsftpd will try to change into after an
anonymous login. (Default = /var/ftp)
anon_root=/data/directory
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
# (Needed even if you want local users to be able to upload files)
write_enable=YES
# Uncomment to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This
only
# has an effect if global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
# anon_upload_enable=YES
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to
create
# new directories.
# anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.

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xferlog_enable=YES
# You may override where the log file goes if you like.
# The default is shown below.
xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log

Other vsftpd.conf Options

There are many other options you can add to this file:
Limiting the maximum number of client connections (max_clients)
Limiting the number of connections by source IP address
(max_per_ip)
The maximum rate of data transfer per anonymous login.
(anon_max_rate)
The maximum rate of data transfer per non-anonymous login.
(local_max_rate)

Descriptions on this and more can be found in the vsftpd.conf man

pages.
Anonymous upload
mkdir /var/ftp/pub/upload
chmod 722 /var/ftp/pub/upload
ftpd_banner= New Banner Here
write_enable = NO
Check files under the following
$ cd /etc/vsftpd/
$ ls
ftpusers users_list vsftpd.conf vsftpd.conf_migrate.sh

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Types of FTP
From a networking perspective, the two main types of FTP are active
and passive. In active FTP, the FTP server initiates a data
transfer connection back to the client. For passive FTP, the
connection is initiated from the FTP client. These are illustrated
in Figure 15-1.
Figure 15-1 Active and Passive FTP Illustrated

From a user management perspective there are also two types of FTP:
regular FTP in which files are transferred using the username and
password of a regular user FTP server, and anonymous FTP in which
general access is provided to the FTP server using a well known
universal login method.
Take a closer look at each type.
Active FTP
The sequence of events for active FTP is:
1. Your client connects to the FTP server by establishing an FTP
control connection to port 21 of the server. Your commands such
as 'ls' and 'get' are sent over this connection.
2. Whenever the client requests data over the control connection,
the server initiates data transfer connections back to the
client. The source port of these data transfer connections is
always port 20 on the server, and the destination port is a high
port (greater than 1024) on the client.
3. Thus the ls listing that you asked for comes back over the port
20 to high port connection, not the port 21 control connection.

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FTP active mode therefore transfers data in a counter intuitive way
to the TCP standard, as it selects port 20 as it's source port (not
a random high port that's greater than 1024) and connects back to
the client on a random high port that has been pre-negotiated on
the port 21 control connection.
Active FTP may fail in cases where the client is protected from the
Internet via many to one NAT (masquerading). This is because the
firewall will not know which of the many servers behind it should
receive the return connection.
Passive FTP
Passive FTP works differently:
1. Your client connects to the FTP server by establishing an FTP
control connection to port 21 of the server. Your commands such
as ls and get are sent over that connection.
2. Whenever the client requests data over the control connection,
the client initiates the data transfer connections to the server.
The source port of these data transfer connections is always a
high port on the client with a destination port of a high port on
the server.
Passive FTP should be viewed as the server never making an active
attempt to connect to the client for FTP data transfers. Because
client always initiates the required connections, passive FTP works
better for clients protected by a firewall.
As Windows defaults to active FTP, and Linux defaults to passive,
you'll probably have to accommodate both forms when deciding upon a
security policy for your FTP server.
Regular FTP
By default, the VSFTPD package allows regular Linux users to copy
files to and from their home directories with an FTP client using
their Linux usernames and passwords as their login credentials.
VSFTPD also has the option of allowing this type of access to only
a group of Linux users, enabling you to restrict the addition of
new files to your system to authorized personnel.
The disadvantage of regular FTP is that it isn't suitable for
general download distribution of software as everyone either has to
get a unique Linux user account or has to use a shared username and
password. Anonymous FTP allows you to avoid this difficulty.
Anonymous FTP
Anonymous FTP is the choice of Web sites that need to exchange
files with numerous unknown remote users. Common uses include
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downloading software updates and MP3s and uploading diagnostic
information for a technical support engineers' attention. Unlike
regular FTP where you login with a preconfigured Linux username and
password, anonymous FTP requires only a username of anonymous and
your email address for the password. Once logged in to a VSFTPD
server, you automatically have access to only the default anonymous
FTP directory (/var/ftp in the case of VSFTPD) and all its
subdirectories.

Good GUI ftp clients

1.1. kasablanca
1.2. ftpcube
1.3. gftp
1.4. iglooftp
1.5. konqueror
1.6. filezilla
Console ftp clients
2.1. GNU Midnight Commander
2.2. ftp
2.3. yafc
2.4. ncftp

Problems With FTP And Firewalls

FTP frequently fails when the data has to pass through a firewall,
because firewalls are designed to limit data flows to predictable
TCP ports and FTP uses a wide range of unpredictable TCP ports. You
have a choice of methods to overcome this.
Note: The Appendix II, "Codes, Scripts, and Configurations",
contains examples of how to configure the VSFTPD Linux firewall to
function with both active and passive FTP.
Client Protected By A Firewall Problem
Typically firewalls don't allow any incoming connections at all,
which frequently blocks active FTP from functioning. With this type
of FTP failure, the active FTP connection appears to work when the
client initiates an outbound connection to the server on port 21.
The connection then appears to hang, however, as soon as you use
the ls, dir, or get commands. The reason is that the firewall is
blocking the return connection from the server to the client (from
port 20 on the server to a high port on the client). If a firewall
allows all outbound connections to the Internet, then passive FTP
clients behind a firewall will usually work correctly as the
clients initiate all the FTP connections.
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 Solution
Table shows the general rules you'll need to allow FTP clients
through a firewall:

Client Protected by Firewall - Required Rules for FTP

Destination Destination
method Source Address ce Port Connection Type
Address Port
Allow outgoing control connections to server
Channel FTP High1 FTP server2 21 New
FTP server 2 21 FTP High Established3
client/network
Allow the client to establish data channels to remote server
Active FTP server2 20 FTP client / High New
FTP network
FTP High FTP server 2 20 Established3
client/network
FTP FTP High FTP server 2 High New
FTP server 2 High FTP High Established 3
client/network
1
Greater than 1024.
2
In some cases, you may want to allow all Internet users to have
access, not just a specific client server or network.
3
Manyhomebasedfirewall/routersautomaticallyallowtrafficforalreadyestablishedconnections.
Thisrulemaynotbenecessaryinallcases.
Server Protected By A Firewall Problem
Typically firewalls don't let any connections come in at all. When
a an incorrectly configured firewall protects an FTP server, the
FTP connection from the client doesn't appear to work at all for
both active and passive FTP.
Solution

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 Table 15-2 Rules needed to allow FTP servers through a firewall.
source Destination Destination Connection
Method Source Address
Port Address Port Type
Allow incoming control connections to server
control FTP High1 FTP server 21 New
Channel client/network2

FTP server 21 FTP High Established3

client/network2
Allow server to establish data channel to remote client
FTP FTP server 20 FTP High New
client/network2
FTP High FTP server 20 Established3
client/network2
Passive FTP High FTP server High New
FTP client/network2

FTP server High FTP High Established3

client/network2
1
Greater than 1024.
2
In some cases, you may want to allow all Internet users to have
access, not just a specific client server or network.
3
Many home-based firewall/routers automatically allow traffic for
already established connections. This rule may not be necessary in
all cases.
chrooted ftp users

uncomment & edit vsftpd.conf

local_enable=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
the above line will enable for users to be chrooted under
their home
this is for chroot list
local_enable=YES
chroot_local_user=NO
chroot_list_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
create vsftpd.chroot_list file under /etc and add the users which
u want to chroot

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 NFS

NFSv2 uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to provide a stateless

network connection between the client and server. NFSv3 can use
either UDP or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) running over an
IP network
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.
NFS port 2049
NFS relies on Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) to route requests
between clients and servers. RPC services under Linux are
controlled by the portmap service. To share or mount NFS file
systems, the following services work together:
nfs - Starts the appropriate RPC processes to service requests
for shared NFS file systems.
nfslock - An optional service that starts the appropriate RPC
processes to allow NFS clients to lock files on the server.
portmap - The RPC service for Linux; it responds to requests for
RPC services and sets up connections to the requested RPC
service.
The following RPC processes work together behind the scenes to
facilitate NFS services:
rpc.mountd - This process receives mount requests from NFS
clients and verifies the requested file system is currently
exported. This process is started automatically by the nfs
service and does not require user configuration.
rpc.nfsd - This process is the NFS server. It works with the
Linux kernel to meet the dynamic demands of NFS clients, such as
providing server threads each time an NFS client connects. This
process corresponds to the nfs service.
rpc.lockd - An optional process that allows NFS clients to lock
files on the server. This process corresponds to the nfslock
service.
rpc.statd - This process implements the Network Status Monitor
(NSM) RPC protocol which notifies NFS clients when an NFS server
is restarted without being gracefully brought down. This process
is started automatically by the nfslock service and does not
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 rpc.rquotad - This process provides user quota information for
remote users. This process is started automatically by the nfs
service and does not require user configuration.

NFS and portmap

The portmap service under Linux maps RPC requests to the correct
services. RPC processes notify portmap when they start, revealing
the port number they are monitoring and the RPC program numbers
they expect to serve. The client system then contacts portmap on
the server with a particular RPC program number. The portmap
service redirects the client to the proper port number so it can
communicate with the requested service.

Because RPC-based services rely on portmap to make all connections

with incoming client requests, portmap must be available before any
of these services start.
The portmap service uses TCP wrappers for access control, and
access control rules for portmap affect all RPC-based services.
Alternatively, it is possible to specify access control rules for
each of the NFS RPC daemons. The man pages for rpc.mountd and
rpc.statd contain information regarding the precise syntax for
these rul
/etc/hosts
1. /var/lib/nfs/xtab
2./var/lib/nfs/rmtab
rpc.mountd
The rpc.mountd program implements the NFS mount protocol. When
receiving a MOUNT request from an NFS client, it checks the request
against the list of currently exported file systems. If the
client is permitted to mount the file system, rpc.mountd
obtains a file handle for requested directory and returns it
to the client.
Alternatively, you can export individual directories temporarily
using exportfs host:/directory syntax. uid matching and
readonlyfilesystem
Portmap is a server that converts RPC program numbers into DARPA
protocol port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC
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When an RPC server is started, it will tell portmap what port
number it is listening to, and what RPC program numbers it is
prepared to serve. When a client wishes to make an RPC call to a
given program number, it will first contact portmap on the server
machine to determine the port number where RPC packets should be
sent.
$ /etc/exports
/data/files *(ro,sync)
/home 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync)
/data/test *.my-site.com(rw,sync)
/data/database 192.168.1.203/32(rw,sync)
/etc/exports option
$cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports (runtime check)
Try the following
Edit exports file

/opt/data
192.168.1.65(rw,wdelay,root_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=65534,a
nongid=65534)
192.168.1.45 (rw,no_root_squash,)

try mounting from the client, in my case client ip is

192.168.1.65 and check the permissons by root and user also try
from the client 192.168.1.45 and chk permissions
Client
Mount 192.168.1.75:/opt/data /data
More options
/opt/data station1 (rw,wdelay,all_squash,anonuid=150,anongid=100)
Now try mounting from 192.168.1.65 (point station1 -->
192.168.1.65 in /etc/hosts file) and chk the permisson by login
user and root.
More options
we can also restrict by domain.
/opt/deploy/stic *.example.com (rw) *.workgroup.com (ro,sync)

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Heres the complete list of mapping options:
root_squash
Map requests from uid/gid 0 to the anonymous uid/gid. Note that
this does not apply to any other uids that might be equally sen-
sitive, such as user bin.
no_root_squash
Turn off root squashing. This option is mainly useful for disk-
less clients.
all_squash
Map all uids and gids to the anonymous user. Useful for NFS-
exported public FTP directories, news spool directories, etc.The
opposite option is no_all_squash, which is the default set-ting.
anonuid and anongid
These options explicitly set the uid and gid of the anonymous
account. This option is primarily useful for PC/NFS
clients,where you might want all requests appear to be from one
user. As an example, consider the export entry for /home/joe in the
exam-ple section below, which maps all requests to uid 150 (which
is supposedly that of user joe).
General Options
exportfs understands the following export options:
secure
This option requires that requests originate on an internet port
less than IPPORT_RESERVED (1024). This option is on by default. To
turn it off, specify insecure.
rw
Allow both read and write requests on this NFS volume. The
default is to disallow any request which changes the filesystem.
This can also be made explicit by using the ro option.

async
This option allows the NFS server to violate the NFS protocol
and reply to requests before any changes made by that request
have been committed to stable storage (e.g. disc drive).Using this
option usually improves performance, but at the cost that an
unclean server restart (i.e. a crash) can cause data to be lost or
corrupted.
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sync
Reply to requests only after the changes have been committed to
stable storage (see async above).In releases of nfs-utils upto and
including 1.0.0, this option was the default. In this and future
releases, sync is the default, and async must be explicit requested
if needed.To help make system adminstrators aware of this change,
exportfs will issue a warning if neither sync nor async is
specified.
no_wdelay
This option has no effect if async is also set. The NFS server
will normally delay committing a write request to disc slightly if
it suspects that another related write request may be in
progress or may arrive soon. This allows multiple write
requests to be committed to disc with the one operation which
can improve performance. If an NFS server received mainly small
unrelated requests, this behaviour couldactually reduce perfor-
mance, so no_wdelay is available to turn it off. The default
can be explicitly requested with the wdelay option.
subtree_check
This option enables subtree checking, which does add another
level of security, but can be unreliability in some circum-
stances.If a subdirectory of a filesystem is exported, but the
whole filesystem isnt then whenever a NFS request arrives, the
server must check not only that the accessed file is in the
appropriate filesystem (which is easy) but also that it is in the
exported tree (which is harder). This check is called the
subtree_check.
In order to perform this check, the server must include some
information about the location of the file in the "filehandle"
that is given to the client. This can cause problems with
accessing files that are renamed while a client has them open
(though in many simple cases it will still work).
Try Mount Options in fstab
192.168.1.33:/opt/deploy/stic /mnt nfs
rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
bg
Retry mounting in the background if mounting initially fails
fg
Mount in the foreground
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soft Use soft mounting
If an NFS file operation has a major timeout then report an I/O
error to the calling program. The default is to continue retrying
NFS file operations indefinitely.
hard Use hard mounting
If an NFS file operation has a major timeout then report "server
not responding" on the console and continue retrying indefinitely.
This is the default.
rsize=n
The amount of data NFS will attempt to access per read operation.
The default is dependent on the kernel. For NFS version 2, set it
to 8192 to assure maximum throughput.
wsize=n
The amount of data NFS will attempt to access per write operation.
The default is dependent on the kernel. For NFS version 2, set it
to 8192 to assure maximum throughput.
nfsvers=n
The version of NFS the mount command should attempt to use tcp
Attempt to mount the filesystem using TCP packets: the default
is UDP.
intr
If the filesystem is hard mounted and the mount times out, allow
for the process to be aborted using the usual methods such as CTRL-
C and the kill command.
nolock
Disable NFS locking. Do not start lockd. This has to be used with
some old NFS servers that dont support lock-ing.

Some important nfs mount options in Linux.

tcp - Specifies for the NFS mount to use the TCP protocol instead
of UDP.
rsize=8192 and wsize=8192 - These settings speed up NFS
communication for reads (rsize) and writes (wsize) by setting a
larger data block size, in bytes, to be transferred at one time. Do
performance tests before changing these values.
hard or soft - Specifies whether the program using a file via an
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NFS connection should stop and wait (hard) for the server to come
back online if the host serving the exported file system is
unavailable, or if it should report an error (soft). If hard is
specified, the user cannot terminate the process waiting for the
NFS communication to resume unless the intrsoft, is specified, the
user can set an additional timeo=<value> option, where <value>
specifies the number of seconds to pass before the error is
reported. option is also specified.
nolock - Disables file locking. This setting is occasionally
required when connecting to older NFS servers.

noexec - Prevents execution of binaries on mounted file systems.

This is useful if the system is mounting a non-Linux file system
via NFS containing incompatible binaries.
intr - Allows NFS requests to be interrupted if the server goes
down or cannot be reached.
nfsvers=2 or nfsvers=3 - Specifies which version of the NFS
protocol to use.
nosuid - Disables set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits.
This prevents remote users from gaining higher privileges by
running a setuid program.
There are many other options. But the above ones are very
important.

Practicals:
On server pc (server ip 192.168.1.40)
First check nfs install or not
$ rpm -qa | grep -i nfs
nfs-utils-1.0.9-44.el5

nfs-utils-lib-1.0.8-7.6.el5
if you have installation dvd then run following command:
$ rpm -ivh nfs-utils-1.0.9-44.el5

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$ rpm -ivh nfs-utils-lib-1.0.8-7.6.el5
if not then install through internet
$ yum install nfs*

Then start nfs service

$ service nfs start
Starting NFS services: [ OK
]

Starting NFS quotas: [ OK

]

Starting NFS daemon: [ OK

]

Starting NFS mountd: [ OK

]

NFS major file call /etc/exports

$exports --> this command became blank your exports file
$ vi /etc/exports
Type following line in exports file
/mnt/test *(sync,rw)
/opt/funny *(sync,rw)
$ exportfs -a --> this cmnd reread /etc/exports file
$ showmount -e localhost
Export list for localhost:

/mnt/test *

/opt/funny *

$nfsstat nfs statistics.

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From client side (client ip 192.168.1.50)
$ service nfs start (as a root)
$ showmount -e 192.168.1.40
/mnt/test *
/opt/funny *
Mount the shared partition as follow:
$ mount 192.168.1.40:/mnt/test /mnt/
$ cd /mnt/
$ ls
Create any file in client side and check on server pc you can see
the same.
For permanent mount the directory type following entry in fstab
file:
$ vi /etc/fstab
192.168.1.40:/mnt/test /mnt nfs _netdev,defaults 0 0
192.168.1.40:/opt/funny /opt nfs _netdev,defaults 0 0

Check with the following cmds

$ rpcinfo -p --> check which rpc based services on, -p means print
$ rpcinfo -p 192.168.1.40 --> which service on server site
$ telnet 192.168.1.40 2049 --> check nfs port open or not on server
side

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 Network Info Service (NIS)

[Directory Services] like LDAP and DNS

by Sun MicroSystems

What does it do ?

* Provides unified login and authentication, NS for a group of

machines.
* Like LDAP, it handles passwords, groups, protocols, networks,
services.

Advantages of NIS :

1. Central Information Store

2. Security because of encrypted maps [dbs]
3. Performance bcos of indexed maps
4. Can be used for DNS
5. Authentication for Samba, Apache etc and also Local instead of
/etc/hosts and /etc/passwd, which can then be deleted

Alert : Disable Firewalls or NIS will not work since, by default,

RPC services are blocked by FWs [in RHL]
Exam Alert :

1. Make sure you put FWs off before doing anything in NIS
2. Make sure you start portmap BEFORE you start NFS
3. Make sure you use 'showmount -e' before you do any 'mount'
4. All errors are mostly due to incorrect syntax in /etc/exports and
especially watch out for the space between the options ()
5. If you use 'authconfig' for client config, make sure you
disable it in 'ntsysv' imasap
6. Check /etc/securenets if you are being blocked or wish to
7. Check /etc/ypserv.conf if you cannot query maps or wish to

Daemon Name Purpose

portmap The foundation RPC daemon upon which NIS runs.
yppasswdd Lets users change their passwords on the NIS server
from NIS clients
ypserv Main NIS server daemon
ypbind Main NIS client daemon
ypxfrd Used to speed up the transfer of very large NIS
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rpcinfo -p localhost
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100009 1 udp 681 yppasswdd
100004 2 udp 698 ypserv
100004 1 udp 698 ypserv
100004 2 tcp 701 ypserv
100004 1 tcp 701 ypserv

NIS Server part I

1. $ vi /etc/sysconfig/network #put NISDOMAIN=altnix

2. $ domainname altnix
3. Configure /etc/yp.conf
altnix server server1.altnix.local
4. $ service ypserv start
5. $ service yppasswdd start [OPTIONAL]
6. $ domainname
7. $ nisdomainname
The above 2 commands MUST show the right output
8. $ cd /var/yp/
9. $ /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
Ctrl D

So what is an NIS domain ?

A: A group of hosts that use the same set of maps, form an NIS
domain
All of the m/cs in an NIS domain will share the same pwd,hosts
and grp
info.

I. NFS Server part

1. Configure /etc/exports
$ vi /etc/exports
/home *(rw,sync)
$ exportfs a
2. $ service portmap restart
3. $ service nfs restart
Testing : Check if all is ok with
$ rpcinfo -p
$ showmount e localhost

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II. NIS Client part

1. service portmap restart

2. showmount -e NFSServer
3. mount NFSserver:/home /home
4. Configure yp.conf
Do exactly the same as for server
5. service ypbind restart
or
use authconfig* which will do 4,5,6 automatically

Testing the NIS Server from the Client

Log in as foo

$ ypwhich <-- Where is the NIS Master Database

$ ypwhich m <-- Where is the NIS Master Database + maps
$ ypcat x <-- Shows list of NIS maps from NIS server
$ ypcat passwd <-- Shows details of NIS passwd map db
/var/yp/altnix/passwd.byname
$ ypmatch foo passwd <-- Check if user foo exists in the NIS pwd
db
$ yppoll passwd.byname <-- Info about a specific map [root only]

You have to have the 'service yppasswdd' running on the server to

do the foll:
$ ypchfn foo <-- Change finger info of foo in NIS pwd db
map
$ yppasswd foo <-- Change foo's pwd in NIS pwd db map
i.e. /var/yp/altnix/passwd.byname passwd.byuid
Note : His local system login pwd changes accordingly bcos
yppasswd* actually changes the passwd of foo in /etc/passwd and
then pushes the changes to 2 other file :
/var/yp/altnix/passwd.byname
/var/yp/altnix /passwd.byuid
$ ypmatch nisuser passwd
$ getent passwd nisuser

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III - More NIS Server Security

/etc/ypserv.conf [On NIS Server]

* on server
* This file is used to control hosts/users who can use your NIS
server

syntax : host:domain:map:security

* There is one entry per line.

* All rules are tried one by one. If no match is found, access to
a map is allowed.
* Following options exist:

files: 30
This option specifies, how many database files should be
cached by ypserv. If 0 is specified, caching is disabled.
Decreasing this number is only possible, if ypserv is restarted.

xfr_check_port: [<yes>|no]
With this option enabled, the NIS master server have to run
on a port < 1024. The default is "yes" (enabled).The field
descriptions for the access rule lines are:

host IP address. Wildcards are allowed.

Examples:
131.234. = 131.234.0.0/255.255.0.0
131.234.214.0/255.255.254.0

domain specifies the domain, for which this rule should be

applied. An asterix as wildcard is allowed.

map name of the map, or asterisk for all maps.

security one of none, port, deny:

none always allow access.

port allow access if from port < 1024. Otherwise do not allow
access.

deny deny access to this map.

EXAMPLE : Try these entries in /etc/ypserv.conf

eg 192.168.0.10:*:*:deny

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eg *:*:passwd.byname:deny <-- All hosts/users will be
denied access from any domain to the foll map

****************

Logging In Via Telnet

Try logging into the NIS client via telnet if it is enabled

[root@bigboy tmp]# telnet 192.168.1.201

Trying 192.168.1.201...
Connected to 192.168.1.201.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
Kernel 2.4.20-6 on an i686
login: nisuser
Password:
Last login: Sun Nov 16 22:03:51 from 192-168-1-100.simiya.com
[nisuser@smallfry nisuser]$

yppasswd -p nisuser
Changing NIS account information for nisuser on bigboy.my-site.com.
Please enter root password:
Changing NIS password for nisuser on bigboy.my-site.com.
Please enter new password:
Please retype new password:

The NIS password has been changed on bigboy.my-site.com.

NIS Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting is always required as any part of your daily

routine, NIS is no exception. Here are some simple steps to follow
to get it working again.
1. The rpcinfo provides a list of TCP ports that your NIS client or
server is using. Make sure you can TELNET to these ports from the
client to the server and vice versa. If this fails, make sure all
the correct NIS daemons are running and that there are no firewalls
blocking traffic on the network or on the servers themselves. These
ports change from time to time, so memorizing them won't help much.

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The example tests from the client to the server.
[root@bigboy tmp]# rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100024 1 udp 32768 status
100024 1 tcp 32768 status
391002 2 tcp 32769 sgi_fam
100009 1 udp 1018 yppasswdd
100004 2 udp 611 ypserv
100004 1 udp 611 ypserv
100004 2 tcp 614 ypserv
100004 1 tcp 614 ypserv
100007 2 udp 855 ypbind
100007 1 udp 855 ypbind
100007 2 tcp 858 ypbind
100007 1 tcp 858 ypbind
600100069 1 udp 874 fypxfrd
600100069 1 tcp 876 fypxfrd

[root@bigboy tmp]#

[root@smallfry tmp]# telnet 192.168.1.100 858

Trying 10.41.32.71...
Connected to 10.41.32.71.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
[root@smallfry tmp]#

2. Always use the ypmatch, getent, and ypwhich commands to check

your NIS connectivity. If there is any failure, check your steps
over again and you should be able to find the source of your
problem.
3. Do not fail to create a user's home directory, set its
permissions, and copy the /etc/skel files correctly. If you forget,
which is a common error, your users may have incorrect login
prompts and no ability to create files in their home directories.
It can never be overemphasized that one of the best places to start
troubleshooting is by looking in your error log files in the
/var/log directory. You'll save a lot of time and effort if you
always refer to them whenever the problem doesn't appear to be
obvious.

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 Installation of autofs.

Install autofs using rpm package.

[root@tenouk ~]# mount /dev/cdrom

[root@tenouk ~]# cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
[root@tenouk ~]# rpm -Uhv autofs-3.1.7-28.i386.rpm
[root@tenouk ~]# cd /
[root@tenouk ~]# umont /dev/cdrom

Start, stop and restart autofs.

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/service autofs start

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/service autofs stop
[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/service autofs restart

Setting of autofs automatic start.

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 autofs on

Confirmation of autofs automatic start

[root@tenouk ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --list autofs

Setting which uses NIS

The configuration on the NIS server

[root@tenouk ~]# vi /etc/auto.master

/nfs /etc/auto.home --timeout 60

[root@tenouk ~]# vi /etc/auto.home

home -rw,hard,intr,nolock compaq:/home

[root@tenouk ~]# vi /var/yp/Makefile

all: passwd group hosts rpc services netid protocols mail \
shadow auto.home \
# netgrp shadow publickey networks ethers bootparams printcap \
# amd.home auto.master auto.home auto.local passwd.adjunct \
# timezone locale netmasks

Allow normal user to mount linux partitions, usb stick / pen device
by nixcraft

You need to use autofs. It is use to mount file system on demand.

Usually autofs is invoked at system boot time with the start
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parameter and at shutdown time with the stop parameter. The autofs
script can also manually be invoked by the system administrator to
shut down, restart or reload the automounters.
autofs will consult a configuration file /etc/auto.master to find
mount points on the system.
i) Install autofs if not installed. if you are using Debian /
Ubuntu Linux, enter:
#aptgetinstallautofs
ii) Create dekstop group and add user jimmy to this group:
#groupadddesktop
#usermodGvideo,desktopjimmy
#chmodRa+rx/var/autofs/misc
iii) Configure autofs so that usb stick can be accessed:
#vi/etc/auto.misc
iv) Append following text to auto.misc:
usbfstype=auto,user,sync,nodev,nosuid,gid=desktop,umask=002
:/dev/sda1
dfstype=vfat,user,sync,nodev,nosuid,gid=desktop,
umask=002:/dev/hda2
Where,
usb : Is directory name, which can be accessed via
/var/autofs/misc/usb directory. User in desktop group just need
to type cd command (cd /var/autofs/misc/usb) to change the
directory.
-fstype- auto, user, sync, nodev, nosuid, gid-desktop, umask-
002 :- All these are options used to mount the file system by
automounter.
auto: File system is automatically determined by kernel.
user: Normal user are allowed to mount devices
nodev: Do not interpret character or block special devices on the
file system.
nosuid: Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier
bits to take effect. This is security feature.
gid=desktop: This allows file system mounted as as group dekstop.
As we have added user jimmy to this group already.
umask=002: Setup umask so that users in group desktop can write
data to device.
Please note that without gid and umask option normal user cannot
write data to device.
v)Restart the autofs:
#/etc/init.d/autofsrestart
vi) Test it as user jimmy (make sure usb stick/pen is inserted into
usb port):
$ls/var/autofs/misc/usb
$cd/var/autofs/misc/usb
$mkdirtestdir
$lsl
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DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol

* A DHCP relay agent

These tools all use a modular API which is designed to be
sufficiently general that it can easily be made to work on POSIX-
compliant operating systems and also non-POSIX systems like Windows
NT and MacOS.
The DHCP server, client and relay agent are provided both as
reference implementations of the protocol and as working, fully-
featured sample implementations.
Both the client and the server provide functionality that, while not
strictly required by the protocol, is very useful in practice. The
DHCP server also makes allowances for non-compliant clients which
one might still like to support.
This tutorial describes how to set up a DHCP server (ISC-DHCP) for
yourlocal network.
DHCP is short for "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",it's a
protocol that handles the assignment of IP addresses, subnet masks,
default routers, and other IP parameters to client PCs that don't
have a static IP address. Such computers try to find a DHCP server
in their local network which in turn assigns them an IP
address,gateway, etc. so that they can connect to the internet or
other computers from the local network.
current situation:
* network 192.168.10.0, subnetmask 255.255.255.0, broadcast address
192.168.10.255.
* gateway to the internet is 192.168.10.10; on the gateway there's
no DHCP server.
* DNS servers I can use are 202.88.130.15 and 202.88.130.67
* I have a pool of 30 IP addresses (192.168.10.200 - 192.168.10.229)
that can be dynamically assigned to client PCs and that are not
already in use.
IP address 192.168.10.10 which will act as DHCP server.

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2 Download and Install the DHCP Package
NOTE:
By default dhcp packages are installed in RHEL
See that the following is installed on the Server: dhcp-3.0pl2-6.14
$ rpm -q dhcp
On the client side, this package "dhclient-3.0pl2-6.14" is
installed.
$ rpm -q dhclient
If DHCP packages aren't installed, download it from
http://www.rpmseek.com and install.
3. Configuration Part: ISC DHCP Server
Copy the DHCP configuration filke
$cp /usr/share/doc/dhcp-3.0pl2/dhcpd.conf.sample /etc/dhcpd.conf
/etc/dhcpd.conf
ddns-update-style: You can tell the DHCP server to update a DNS
server if the IP address of a server in your LAN has changed
(because it has been assigned a different IP by DHCP).
As we do not run servers in our LAN or always give them static IP
addresses (which is a
good idea for servers...) we don't want to update DNS records so we
set this to none.
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
# Define the scope
subnet 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
{
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.10.177 192.168.10.188;
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.10.124 192.168.10.130;
# Set the amount of time in seconds that a client may keep the IP
address
# A client can tell the DHCP server for how long it would like to
get an IP address.
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# If it doesn't do this, the server assigns an IP address for
default-lease-time seconds;
# if it does, the server grants the requested time, but only up to
max-lease-time seconds.
default-lease-time 10 ; # In secs. If this is not explictly given,
then the default is 1 day.
max-lease-time 12;
# Set the broadcast address and subnet mask to be used by the DHCP
clients
option broadcast-address 192.168.10.255;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option routers 192.168.10.10;

# option nis-domain "altnix.com";

option domain-name "altnix.com";

# Set the DNS server to be used by the DHCP clients

option domain-name-servers 192.168.10.10 192.168.10.20 ;

# If you specify a WINS server for your Windows clients,

# you need to include the following option in the dhcpd.conf file:
option netbios-name-servers 192.168.10.66;
option netbios-node-type 8;

# You can also assign specific IP addresses based on the clients'

ethernet MAC address
# as follows (Host's name is "fcfive.altnix.com"
host win2k3box.altnix.com {
next-server win2k3box.altnix.com # You could assign your own
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hostname
hardware ethernet 12:34:56:78:AB:CD;
fixed-address 192.168.10.100;
}
}

- If you wanna peek into more stuff, Check the dhcp-options man page

4. How to Get DHCP Started

$ touch /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases
--> Test whether your config file is OK.
$ dhcpd -t
--> Test whether your leases file file is A-OK.
$ dhcpd -T
This lease ascii db is vital and documents acquired, renewed or
released leases otherwise the DHCP server will not function.
--> Start the dhcp service [/usr/sbin/dhcpd]
$ service dhcpd restart
--> Check whether dhcpd service is started with the following :
$ dhcpd -f
$ ps ax | grep dhcpd
5. Configuration Part: ISC DHCP Client
sends a standardized DHCP broadcast request packet to the DHCP
server with a source IP address of 255.255.255.255.
Edit file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 :
change BOOTPROTO=none or static to BOOTPROTO=dhcp
OR
$ netconfig
Check the box with Use dynamic IP configuration (BOOTP/DHCP)

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This will eventually make change auto to the file above.
Restart network
4 service network restart

Check to see if DHCP server is up

$ dhcpd -f DHCP-server-IP/Hostname
Check your IP :
$ ifconfig
Note that the new IP address assigned to the client is reassigned
dynamically by the server from the ranges given in /etc/dhcpd.conf
on the server

NOTE:-
DHCP uses the BOOTP protocol for its communication between the
client and server.
Make sure there are no firewalls blocking this traffic. DHCP servers
expect requests on UDP port 67 and the DHCP clients expect responses
on UDP port 68.
The DHCP server writes all current IP address "leases" to the file
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases so you should also find the lease there:
$cat /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases
lease 192.168.10.229 {
starts 2 2006/09/19 14:01:31;
ends 3 2006/09/20 14:01:31;
binding state active;
next binding state free;
hardware ethernet 00:0c:76:8b:c4:16;
uid "\001\000\014v\213\304\026";
client-hostname "trinity";
}
What all can a DHCP server provide Clients ?

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1. IP - range
2. netmask - option subnet-mask
3. BC -
4. nameserver - 'option domain-name-servers'
5. domain - 'option domain-name'
6. NIS domain - 'option nis-domain-name'
6. MAC addr-based IP - 'hardware ethernet' and 'fixed-address'
7. default lease time - 'default-lease-time'
8. max lease time - 'max-lease-time'
9 gateway - 'option routers'
For netbios/Samba option netbios-node-type 2
option netbios-name-server

Advantages of DHCP :
1. Easy configuration if many many clients
2. Saves IPs
2. fixed IP for certain clients
3. Automatic config of the above 9 points

Disadvantages :
Not even one
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
Selects point-to-point node (default is hybrid). Don't change this
unless you understand Netbios very well
DHCP Clients Obtaining 169.254.0.0 Addresses
Whenever Microsoft DHCP clients are unable to contact their DHCP
server they default to selecting their own IP address from the
169.254.0.0 network until the DHCP server becomes available again.
This is frequently referred to as Automatic Private IP Addressing
(APIPA). Here are some steps you can go through to resolve the
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problem:

Ensure that your DHCP server is configured correctly and use the
pgrep command discussed earlier to make sure the DHCP process is
running. Pay special attention to your 255.255.255.255 route,
especially if your DHCP server has multiple interfaces.

Give your DHCP client a static IP address from the same range
that the DHCP server is supposed to provide. See whether you can
ping the DHCP server. If you cannot, double-check your cabling
and your NIC cards.

DHCP uses the BOOTP protocol for its communication between the
client and server. Make sure there are no firewalls blocking this
traffic. DHCP servers expect requests on UDP port 67 and the DHCP
clients expect responses on UDP port 68. Use tcpdump on the
server's NIC to verify the correct traffic flows.
Other DHCP Failures
If the DHCP server fails to start then use your regular
troubleshooting techniques outlined in Chapter 4, "Simple Network
Troubleshooting", to help rectify your problems. Most problems with
an initial setup are often due to:

Incorrect settings in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file such as not

defining the networks for which the DHCP server is responsible;

Firewall rules that block the DHCP bootp protocol on UDP ports 67
and 68;

Routers failing to forward the bootp packets to the DHCP server

when the clients reside on a separate network.
Always check your /var/logs/messages file for dhcpd errors and
remember that mandatory keywords in your configuration file may
change when you upgrade your operating system. Always read the
release notes to be sure.
When a client is to be booted, its boot parameters are determined
by consulting that client's host declaration (if any), and then
consulting any class declarations matching the client, followed by
the pool, subnet and shared-network declarations for the IP address
assigned to the client. Each of these declarations itself appears
within a lexical scope, and all declarations at less specific
lexical scopes are also consulted for client option declarations.
Scopes are never considered twice, and if parameters are declared
in more than one scope, the parameter declared in the most specific
scope is the one that is used.
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looks for a host declaration which has a fixed-address declaration
that lists an IP address that is valid for the subnet or shared
network on which the client is booting. If it doesn't find any such
entry, it tries to find an entry which has no fixed-address
declaration.
EXAMPLES
A typical dhcpd.conf file will look something like this:
global parameters...
subnet 204.254.239.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 {

subnet-specific parameters...
range 204.254.239.10 204.254.239.30;
}
subnet 204.254.239.32 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
subnet-specific parameters...
range 204.254.239.42 204.254.239.62;
}
subnet 204.254.239.64 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
subnet-specific parameters...
range 204.254.239.74 204.254.239.94;
}
group {
group-specific parameters...
host zappo.test.isc.org {
host-specific parameters...
}
host beppo.test.isc.org {
host-specific parameters...
}
host harpo.test.isc.org {
host-specific parameters...
}
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}
Notice that at the beginning of the file, there's a place for
global parameters. These might be things like the organization's
domain name, the addresses of the name servers (if they are common
to the entire organization), and so on. So, for example:
option domain-name "isc.org";
option domain-name-servers ns1.isc.org, ns2.isc.org;
As you can see in Figure 2, you can specify host addresses in
parameters using their domain names rather than their numeric IP
addresses. If a given hostname resolves to more than one IP address
(for example, if that host has two ethernet interfaces), then where
possible, both addresses are supplied to the client.

The most obvious reason for having subnet-specific parameters as

shown in Figure 1 is that each subnet, of necessity, has its own
router. So for the first subnet, for example, there should be
something like:
option routers 204.254.239.1;
Note that the address here is specified numerically. This is not
required - if you have a different domain name for each interface
on your router, it's perfectly legitimate to use the domain name
for that interface instead of the numeric address. However, in many
cases there may be only one domain name for all of a router's IP
addresses, and it would not be appropriate to use that name here.
In Figure 1 there is also a group statement, which provides common
parameters for a set of three hosts - zappo, beppo and harpo. As
you can see, these hosts are all in the test.isc.org domain, so it
might make sense for a group-specific parameter to override the
domain name supplied to these hosts:
option domain-name "test.isc.org";
Also, given the domain they're in, these are probably test
machines. If we wanted to test the DHCP leasing mechanism, we might
set the lease timeout somewhat shorter than the default:
max-lease-time 120; default-lease-time 120;

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 TcpWrappers
Almost all BSD / UNIX / Linux like operating systems are compiled
with TCP Wrappers support. For e.g. Solaris 9, various Linux / *BSD
distributions, and Mac OS X have TCP Wrappers configured to run
out-of-the-box. It is a library which provides simple access
control and standardized logging for supported applications which
accept connections over a network.
TCP Wrapper is a host-based Networking ACL system, used to filter
network access to Internet. TCP wrappers was original written to
monitor and stop cracking activities on the UNIX workstation in
90s. It was best solution in 90s to protect the UNIX workstations
over the Internet. However it has few disadvantages:
1. All UNIX apps must be compiled with the libwrap library.
2. The wrappers do not work with RPC services over TCP.
3. The user name lookup feature of TCP Wrappers uses identd to
identify the username of the remote host. By default, this
feature is disabled, as identd may appear hung when there are
large number of TCP connections.
However, it has one strong advantage over firewall. It works on the
application layer. It can filter requests when encryption is used.
Basically, you need to use both host based and network based
security. Common services such as pop3, ftp, sshd, telnet, r-
services are supported by TCP Wrappers.

TCPD Benefits
1. Logging - Connections that are monitored by tcpd are reported
through the syslog facility.
2. Access Control - tcpd supports a simple form of access control
that is based on pattern matching. You can evern hook the
execution of shell commands / script when a pattern matches.
3. Host Name Verification - tcpd verifies the client host name that
is returned by the address->name DNS server by looking at the
host name and address that are returned by the name->address DNS
server.
4. Spoofing Protection

How do I Find Out If Program Is Compiled With TCP

Wrappers Or Not?

To determine whether a given executable daemon /path/to/daemon

supports TCP Wrapper, check the man page, or ennter:
$ ldd /path/to/daemon | grep libwrap.so
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If this command returns any output, then the daemon probably
supports TCP Wrapper. In this example, find out of if sshd supports
tcp wrappers on not, enter:
$whereissshd
Sample Output:
sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd /usr/share/man/man8/sshd.8.gz

$ ldd /usr/sbin/sshd | grep libwrap.so

Sample Output:
libwrap.so.0 => /lib64/libwrap.so.0 (0x00002b759b381000)

ldd is used to see if libwrap.so is a dependency or not. An

alternative to TCP Wrapper support is packet filtering using
iptables.

Important Files

tcpd - access control facility for internet services.

/etc/hosts.allow - This file describes the names of the hosts
which are allowed to use the local INET services, as decided by
the /usr/sbin/tcpd server.
/etc/hosts.deny - This file describes the names of the hosts
which are NOT allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
by the /usr/sbin/tcpd server.
If the same client / user / ip is listed in both hosts.allow and
hosts.deny, then hosts.allow takes precedence and access is
permitted. If the client is listed in hosts.allow, then is access
permitted. If the client is listed in hosts.deny, then access is
denied.
tcpdchk and tcpdmatch - test programs for tcpd

Syntax (format) Of Host Access Control Files

Both /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny uses the following

format:
daemon_list : client_list [ : shell_command ]

Where,
daemon_list - a list of one or more daemon process names.
client_list - a list of one or more host names, host addresses,
patterns or wildcards that will be matched against the client
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WildCards
The access control language supports explicit wildcards (quoting
from the man page):

ALL The universal wildcard, always matches.

LOCAL Matches any host whose name does not contain a dot
character.

UNKNOWN
Matches any user whose name is unknown, and
matches any host
whose name or address are unknown. This pattern
should be used
with care: host names may be unavailable due to
temporary name
server problems. A network address will be
unavailable when the
software cannot figure out what type of network it
is talking
to.

KNOWN Matches any user whose name is known, and matches any
host whose
name and address are known. This pattern should
be used with
care: host names may be unavailable due to temporary
name server
problems. A network address will be unavailable
when the soft-
ware cannot figure out what type of network it is
talking to.

PARANOID
Matches any host whose name does not match its
address. When
tcpd is built with -DPARANOID (default mode), it
drops requests
from such clients even before looking at the
access control
tables. Build without -DPARANOID when you want
more control
over such requests.

TCPD Configuration Examples

Set default policy to to deny access. Only explicitly authorized

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hosts are permitted to access. Update /etc/hosts.deny as follows:
# The default policy (no access) is implemented with a trivial
deny file
ALL: ALL

Above will denies all service to all hosts, unless they are
permitted access by entries in the allow file. For example, allow
access as follows via /etc/hosts.allow:

ALL: LOCAL @devels

ALL: .nixcraft.net.in EXCEPT boobytrap.nixcraft.net.in

Log and deny access (booby traps) - we do not allow connections

from crackers.com:

ALL : .crackers.com \
: spawn (/bin/echo %a from %h attempted to access %d >> \
/var/log/connections.log) \
: deny

A Typical UNIX Example

Allow access to various service inside LAN only via
/etc/hosts.allow:
popd : 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.104
imapd : 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
sendmail : 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
sshd : 192.168.1.2 172.16.23.12

Deny everything via /etc/hosts.deny:

ALL : ALL

Reject All Connections

Restrict all connections to non-public services to localhost only.
Suppose sshd and ftpd are the names of service which must be
accessed remotely. Edit /etc/hosts.allow. Add the following lines:
sshd ,ftpd : ALL
ALL: localhost

Save and close the file. Edit /etc/hosts.deny. Add the following
line:
ALL: ALL
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Default Log Files
TCP Wrappers will do all its logging via syslog according to
your /etc/syslog.conf file. The following table lists the standard
locations where messages from TCP Wrappers will appear:
1. AIX - /var/adm/messages
2. HP-UX - /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
3. Linux - /var/log/messages
4. FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD - /var/log/messages
5. Mac OS X - /var/log/system.log
6. Solaris - /var/log/syslog
Use the following command to view logs:
#tailf/path/to/log/file
#grep'ip'/path/to/log/file
#egrepi'ip|hostname'/path/to/log/file

How Do I Predicts How The Tcp Wrapper Would Handle a Specific

Request For Service?
Use tcpdmatch command. predict how tcpd would handle a sshd request
from the local system:
tcpdmatchsshdlocalhost
The same request, pretending that hostname lookup failed:
tcpdmatchsshd192.168.1.5
To predict what tcpd would do when the client name does not match
the client address:
tcpdmatchsshdparanoid
Replace sshd with in.telnetd, or ftpd and so on. You can use all
daemon names specified in inetd.conf or xinetd.conf file.

How do I Examines My TCP Wrapper Config File?

Use tcpdchk command toexamines your tcp wrapper configuration and
reports all potential and real problems it can find.
tcpdchk
tcpdchkv

A Note About TCP Wrappers and Firewall

You need to use both (firewall and tcpd) to fight against

crackers.
TCP Wrappers are most commonly employed to match against IP
addresses and host level protection.
Never configure TCP Wrappers on firewall host.
Put TCP Wrappers on all UNIX / Linux / BSD workstations.
Do not use NIS (YP) netgroups in TCP Wrappers rules.
Put TCP Wrappers behind a firewall systems as TCP Wrappers is no
substitute for netfilter or pf firewall.
TCP Wrappers does provide increased security as firewall cannot
examine encrypted connections (read as packets).
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xinetd, the eXtended InterNET Daemon, is an open-source daemon

which runs on many Linux and Unix systems and manages Internet-
based connectivity. It offers a more secure extension to or version
of inetd, the Internet daemon.

xinetd performs the same function as inetd: it starts programs that

provide Internet services. Instead of having such servers started
at system initialization time, and be dormant until a connection
request arrives, xinetd is he only daemon process started and it
listens on all service ports for the services listed in its
configuration file. When a request comes in, xinetd starts the
appropriate server. Because of the way it operates, xinetd (as well
as inetd) is also referred to as a super-server.

Task: xinetd Configuration files location

Following are important configuration files for xinetd:
/etc/xinetd.conf - The global xinetd configuration file.
/etc/xinetd.d/ directory - The directory containing all service-
specific files such as ftp

Task: Understanding default configuration file

You can view default configuration file with less or cat command:
#less/etc/xinetd.confOR#cat/etc/xinetd.confOutput:
# Simple configuration file for xinetd
#
# Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/

defaults
{
instances = 60
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST
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}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d

Where,
instances = 60 : Determines the number of servers that can be
simultaneously active for a service. So 60 is the maximum number
of requests xinetd can handle at once.

log_type = SYSLOG authpriv: Determines where the service log

output is sent. You can send it to SYSLOG at the specified
facility (authpriv will send log to /var/log/secure file).

log_on_success = HOST PID: Force xinetd to log if the connection

is successful. It will log HOST name and Process ID to
/var/log/secure file.

log_on_failure = HOST: Force xinetd to log if there is a

connection dropped or if the connection is not allowed to
/var/log/secure file

cps = 25 30: Limits the rate of incoming connections. Takes two

arguments. The first argument is the number of connections per
second to handle. If the rate of incoming connections is higher
than this, the service will be temporarily disabled. The second
argument is the number of seconds to wait efore re-enabling the
service after it has been disabled. The default for this setting
is 50 incoming connections and the interval is 10 seconds. This
is good to avoid DOS attack against your service.

includedir /etc/xinetd.d: Read other service specific

configuration file this directory.

Task: How to create my own service called foo

Here is sample config file for service called foo located at
/etc/xinetd.d/foo
#vi/etc/xinetd.d/foo
And append following text:
servicelogin
{
socket_type=stream

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wait=no
user=root
server=/usr/sbin/foo
instances=20
}
Where,
socket_type: Sets the network socket type to stream.
protocol: Sets the protocol type to TCP
wait: You can set the value to yes or no only. It Defines whether
the service is single-threaded (if set to yes) or multi-threaded
(if set to no).
user: User who will run foo server

Task: Stop or restart xinetd

To restart xinetd service type the command:
#/etc/init.d/xinetdrestart
To stop xinetd service type the command:
#/etc/init.d/xinetdstop
To stop xinetd service type the command:
#/etc/init.d/xinetdstart

Task: Verify that xinetd is running

Type the following command to verify xinetd service is running or
NOT:
#/etc/init.d/xinetdstatusOutput:
xinetd (pid 6059) is running...

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 SAMBA

SAMBA - smb protocol - Server Msg Block aka netbios/tcp-ip

[c] Andrew Tridgell
- CIFS - ADS

History : 1. IBM PC DOS - M$ DOS - called MSDOS - PCBIOS 1985

2. PCBIOS ---> NetBEUI -
3. Soon they discarded NETBEUI bcos it did not support
TCP/IP
4. PCBIOS ---> NetBEUI -> NETBIOS/TCP-IP aka NBNT
5. Changed name of NETBIOS/TCP-IP to SMB to CIFS to ADS
[Common Internet File system]
IPX/SPX - Novell - InterNW Pkt Exchange / Sequential Pkt Exchange
sawtimber
samba
Lastest : LongHorn - Whistler 2005 - Vista 2006
Uses of Samba:
1. As a File Server [File Sharing]/HW/SW Resource sharing like NFS
but across OS'
2. As a WINS [Windows Internet Name Server] or NBNS server
3. As a PDC [SAM - Security Access Module]
4. As a Print Server using CUPS

Config File : /etc/samba/smb.conf

----Program 1--------------------------------------------
[funny]
# share or section or service
path = /opt/funny
# directive
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$ service smb restart
$ testparm

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Windows
$ net view
$ net view IP
$ net use * \\<ip>\funny
$ net use * /d
$ nbtstat -a IP
$ rpm -ql samba
/etc/logrotate.d/samba - Log Rotation File
--> Log Files: /var/log/samba
/etc/pam.d/samba
Samba relies heavily upon authentication before providing access to
the users such as file and printers.Its integrated with Samba
Authentication, Accounting as well as session management is handled
via the samba entries in pam.d
/etc/samba/smbusers
Provides a mapping between windows users and local linux based
users Although samba can integrate in Windows World before
providing access to local resources such as files on the file
system, users must be authenticated by the local linux system.
Default smbusers file contains mapping for local linux
administrator which is root and root's equivalent user in windows
world is administrator. However some call it as admin. If either of
two users try to connect to share they should be equated to the
local unix user root providing they know the password. The password
should be same as of administrator and root user,otherwise it would
prompt for the password, when they connect to the samba share.
If local windows users logs in through guest, pcguest and smbguest
they are equated with "nobody" user on linux system
/etc/sysconfig/samba
Which specifies the parameter to run smbd and nmbd as a deamon
/var/spool/samba
If remote users attempt to spool print job to our samba server,they
are generally spooled to this directory Samba nicely integrates
with CUPS (defaut modular Printing System)
SMB services are provided by the NetBIOS protocol. NetBIOS makes
its own name space available, which is completely different from
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the domain name system.
This name space can be accessed with the Unique Naming Convention
(UNC) notation: all services provided by a server are addressed
as \\Server\Servicename.
File or print services offered by a server are also called shares.

The server side of Samba consists of 2 parts:

- smbd. SMB/CIFS server

This daemon provides file and print services for clients in the
network.

authentication and authorization

File and printer sharing

- nmbd. NetBIOS name server

This daemon handles all NetBIOS-related tasks.

resource browsing

WINS server

To integrate Linux as client in a Windows environment, Samba

provides 2 tools:
- winbind. This daemon integrates a Linux system into a Windows
authentication system (Active Directory).
- nmblookup. This tool can be used for NetBIOS name resolution and
testing.
- smbclient. This tool provides access to SMB file and print
services.
Samba version 3.0.22. An important new feature in this version is
the Kerberos support in winbind. This allows a Kerberos based
integration into Active Directory domains. Novell is an important
contributor of the Samba project.
Packages installed in RHEL AS 4:
$ rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2

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 represents the files that are included into your system as Samba
Server
samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.2

contains client based component

system-config-samba-1.2.21-1

tool to configure Samba

samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.2
contains shared components
$ rpm -ql samba-common
/etc/samba/smb.conf
Main Configuration File
/etc/samba/lmhosts
The hostname "localhost" considered to be as netbios
hostnamelmhosts is similar to lmhosts of windows world. In the
event when you attempt to access windows based system or samba
based system by name, translation can occur specially when you are
using samba based clients with the aide of lmhosts file One of the
options but not only the option Since samba based clients can also
rely upon /etc/hosts as well as DNS and WINS (Centralize Name
Repository)
/usr/bin/net
It can be used for joining samba system to a remote domain such as
NT4 Style domain or windows 2000 style Active directory domain net
command allows us to join those domains
/usr/bin/smbpasswd
allows us to equate password for locally stored users, so that when
we attempt to authenticate remote users they are able to do so
through
$ smbpasswd
$ /usr/bin/testparm
If you change manually to smb.conf file which resides in
/etc/samba, testparm which check to insure that the parameters are
correct
/var/log/samba
Log files pertaining to Samba Server
The Samba Configuration File
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The /etc/samba/smb.conf file is the main configuration file you'll
need to edit.
Three ways to approach this file:
system-config-samba (Redhat's Tool)
SWAT
Manually
It is split into five major section
File Format - smb.conf
Section Description
[global] General Samba configuration parameters
[printers] Used for configuring printersUsed for
configuring printers
[homes] Defines treatment of user logins
[netlogon] A share for storing logon scripts.
(Not created by default.)
[profile] A share for storing domain logon
information such as "favorites" and
desktop icons. (Not created by
default.)

smb.conf Minimum Settings, "Global" Section

Parameter value Description
domain logons Yes Tells Samba to become
the PDC
preferred master Yes Makes the PDC act as
the central store for
the names of all
windows clients,
servers and printers
on the network. Very
helpful when you need
to "browse" your local
network for resources.
Also known as a local
master browser.
domain master Yes Tells Samba to become
the master browser
across multiple
networks all over the
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master browsers
register themselves
with the domain master
to learn about
resources on other
networks.
os level 65 Sets the priority the
Samba server should
use when negotiating
to become the PDC with
other Windows servers.
A value of 65 will
usually make the Samba
server win.
wins support Yes Allows the Samba
server to provide name
services for the
network. In other
words keeps track of
the IP addresses of
all the domain's
servers and clients.
time server Yes Lets the samba server
provide time updates
for the domain's
clients.
workgroup "homenet" The name of the
Windows domain we'll
create. The name you
select is your choice.
I've decided to use
"homenet".
security user Make domain logins
query the Samba
password database
located on the samba
server itself.
smb passwd file / It is useful to
etc/samba/smb specify the name and
passwd location of the Samba
password file. This
helps to make Samba
version upgrades where
the default locations
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 may change.
private dir /etc/samba Specifies default
directory for some
supporting temporary
files. As with the
password file, it is a
good practice to
specify this value.

Security Levels
- user (user, server, ADS, domain)
- user
In user mode we can authenticate against local unix /etc/passwd
file
- server
We pass authentication off
Server mode simply passes off authentication to the password
authentication server such as NT4 or WIN2K domain
controller
- Domain
This is used to join NT4 style domain. You need a computer account
in NT4 style domain
- ADS
Same as Domain but just different behaviour
IF ADS is in native mode, they you will need to join the domain
And you need to know kerberos Realm, so that we can accept kerberos
tickets
- share
This mode where you tie a password to share, and if a user knows
the password they granted as readonly-readwrite share. This will be
implemented where the everyone knows the password
Creating User
$ useradd champu
$ passwd champu
Assigning smb password to user champu
$ smbpasswd -a champu
editing configuration file

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$ vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[myshare]
comment = Windoze champu
path = /home/champu
valid users = champu
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
- public
This parameter is a synonym for guest ok.
$ service smb restart
gathering information:
$ smbclient -L 192.168.10.66 -U champu
The -L option should be used to determine if the Samba server is
even
running andlistening for network requests.
Accessing Samba Server
$ smbclient //192.168.10.66/myshare -U champu
smb: \> ls
smb: \> mkdir docs
smb: \> ls
smb: \> quit
Acessing Samba Server From Windows
Acessing Samba Server From X Windows
Open Nautilus
in Location section
smb://192.168.10.66

Permanent Mounting with Linux Samba Clients

$ mkdir /bill
$ vi /etc/samba/pass
username = champu
password = x
$ vi /etc/fstab
//192.168.10.60/myshare /bill smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/pass
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$ mount -a
$ df -h
$ cd /bill

Permanent Mounting Linux Samba Client Using Auto Mounter

$ vi /etc/auto.master
/misc /etc/auto.smb --timeout=60
$ vi /etc/auto.smb
samba
-fstype=smbfs,username=champu,password=x //192.168.10.60/myshare
$ service autofs restart
$ cd /misc/samba
$ ls -l
$ vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[myshare]
hosts deny = 192.168.10.100
comment = Windoze champu
path = /home/champu
valid users = champu
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
$ service smb restart
[hpcolor]
comment = The HP 4500N
path = /usr/spool/lpd/hpcolor
browseable = yes
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mode = 0700

Usage: smbmount
$ smbmount //192.168.10.60/myshare /bill -o
username=champu,password=x
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$ cd /bill

There are basically two ways in which this can happen:

The LMBs register themselves with a WINS server and thus are able
to determine that other LMBs serve the same workgroup.
The workgroup is a domain: All systems in the domain make use
of one Primary Domain Controller (PDC) for authentication. Such a
PDC is required also to be the DMB. Since all systems know the IP
address of the PDC, they also know which DMB to use.
Lbm hhists : static mapping
WINS server: dynamic mapping
Samba as a NT Domain Member
Samba emulates a NT workstation when becoming part of the domain.
So, the first thing you need to do is create a machine account for
your Samba machine on the domain controller. In NT you would use
the program Server Manager for Domains to create the account. Once
the account is created, all you need to add are the following lines
to your smb.conf file under the global section.
Your Workgroup or Domain that you want
to login to workgroup = FREEOS
Tell Samba to talk to domain controller
for authentication
security = domain
Specify the server to get authenticate from. You can specify the
NetBIOS names of the servers or simply put in a * here to let
Samba find the server through broadcast password server = PS1 PS2

Make sure Samba is using encrypted passwords

encrypt passwords = yes
Now stop the Samba daemons
$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
Give the following command to join the NT Domain

$smbpasswdjDOMAINrDOMAINPDC

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We will setup 1 domain "mydomain1" on a linux machine with
samba.

1. Create a samba config files in /etc/samba/ and copy paste the

content in 2nd step.
a. smb.conf

2. Your smb.conf will look like below:

[global]
workgroup = mydomain1
netbios name =server1
time server = Yes
domain logons = Yes
os level = 65
preferred master = Yes
domain master = Yes
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
security = user
mangling method = hash
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g
trust -s /bin/false -M %u
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
log level = 3 passdb:5 auth:10 winbind:2
logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile
logon script = logon.cmd
interfaces = 192.168.2.249/24 ##put your samba server
IP address
bind interfaces only = yes
lock directory = /var/lib/samba/locks/server1

[homes]
read only = No
browseable = Yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755

[netlogon]
path=/var/lib/samba/netlogon
guest ok = yes
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path=/var/lib/samba/profiles
browseable = yes
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
root preexec = PROFILE=/var/lib/samba/profiles/%u; if [
! -e $PROFILE ]; \
then mkdir -pm700 $PROFILE; chown %u:%g $PROFILE;fi

3. Then create below directory:

/var/lib/samba/locks/server1

4. Start samba server:-

/etc/init.d/smb start

5. Check smb started or not.

ps -ef|grep smb

6. Add trust account (for NT machines only)

groupadd trust
useradd -g trust -d /dev/null -s /bin/false <machine name>\$
passwd -l <machine name>\$

====> NOTE: PLEASE DONT FORGET TO GIVE '\$' IN ABOVE 2

COMMANDS
smbpasswd -ma <machine name>

7. Adding administrator account

smbpasswd -a root
(GIVE Samba Passwd for root)

8. FOR WIN XP PROF users NOT for WIN98 ot XP HOME

login to that windows machine (machine name) with administrator.

Right click to "My Computer" and click on "Properties"
Click on "Computer Name" Tab
Click on "Change"
Put Domain - "mydomain1"
Click OK
It will ask for Domain admin username & passwd. Give username:
root and smbpasswd of root
If everything is good then it will show you "Welcome to
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SAMBA PDC WITH LINUX /WINDOWS CLIENT

SAMBA PDC
make dir: /var/lib/samba/locks/server
smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = MYDOMAIN
netbios name =server
# time server = Yes
domain logons = Yes
os level = 33
preferred master = Yes
# local master = Yes
local master = no
domain master = Yes
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam

#when u use passdb backend = tdbsam ;when samba user is created, it

stores the user name and passwd in passwd.tdb file rather than
smbpasswd file
mangling method = hash
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g trust
-s /bin/false -M %u

# add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -n -c "Workstation (%u)"

-M -d /nohome -s /bin/false "%u"

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

log level = 3 passdb:5 auth:10 winbind:2

#for login windows machines

logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile
logon script = %m.bat
logon script = %U.bat

##put your samba server IP address : eth0(optional)

interfaces = eth0 192.168.1.0/24
bind interfaces only = yes
lock directory = /var/lib/samba/locks/server
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 [homes]
read only = No
browseable = Yes
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
valid users = %S
valid users = MYDOMAIN\%S

##

[netlogon]
path=/var/lib/samba/netlogon
guest ok = yes

[profiles]
path=/var/lib/samba/profiles
browseable = yes
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
root preexec = PROFILE = /var/lib/samba/profiles/%u; if
[ !-e $PROFILE ]; then mkdir -pm700 $PROFILE; chown %u:%g
$PROFILE;fi

Client side configuration

1>.smb.conf

[global]
netbios name = station
workgroup = MYDOMAIN
security = domain
password server = 192.168.1.2
# realm = AVTECH.LOCAL
encrypt passwords = yes
idmap uid = 16777216-33554431
idmap gid = 16777216-33554431
#idmap backend = ad
template homedir = /home/%D/%U
template shell = /bin/bash
winbind use default domain = true
~
~
2>.system-config-authentication
only check the winbind setting and specify the domain name n other
req parameters

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it wil do the req. winbind changes in the following files:
a>/etc/nsswitch
b>/etc/pam.d/system-auth

/etc/pam.d/system-auth
session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077
insert this line at the bottom of the system-auth file just before
session required pam_unix.so
3.>Try to join the domain using foll
net rpc join domain-name -U root

also we can join using

system-config-authentication
gui authentication window opens
select domain join
enter administrator name ie root and passwd
click join

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 FIREWALL / IPTABLES

What's a firewall?
Without getting into technical explanations, a firewall is simply a
host whose main purpose is to protect your network. A firewall
restricts certain types of network traffic from the Internet to your
protected network(s) - the reverse is also often true.
Firewalls have always referred to as Layer 3 Security because from
many years. Firewalls were only be able to understand information as
it passed over the network layer 3. Now the technology has moved
forward, Firewalls have become more flexible, more intelligent
ultimately earning the name such as Layer 7 firewall or application
level firewalls.
So the term firewall is not necessarily as accurate, Today as it is
always been because there are various levels of firewalls.
Lets peek into concepts of firewall, how they might apply to
security practices in linux environment
First we gonna look at IPTABLES, defacto standard for securing linux
at the firewall level. So it pretty much comes bundled with
everything across the board and it is pretty easy to configure and
offers a lot of flexibility.

What a firewall is not?

Magic - A firewall cannot make your network absolutely secure.
A bastion host - In an ideal world, this would be true. However,
a firewall is only as secure as the work you put into securing
it.
A bastion host is a special purpose computer on a network
specifically designed and configured to withstand attack
A replacement for host security - Every service you allow through
the firewall is a potential risk.

Types of exploits

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someone has physical access to your box, you've lost. Obviously,
a firewall won't help you here.
Local privilege escalation - The trojan horse attack. The
attacker already has a local account on your box (inside the
gates) and obtains root by some means (vulnerability or
misconfiguration). A firewall cannot protect again this type of
attacks.
Remote - Your host is listening on a port that the attacker is
able to connect to remotely over a network and exploit a
vulnerability somehow. This is the only type of attack a firewall
can (hopefully) protect you against. There is another important
point here that most firewall howtos neglect. In order for
someone to exploit your box remotely, it has to be listening on
some ports (i.e. providing a way for an attacker to connect).
Therefore, if your host isn't listening on any ports, you are
safe from remote exploits (unless the attacker manages to attack
the network stack itself).

Why do you need a firewall?

* Increase your network security - Some services are inherently
insecure and impossible to secure on individual hosts. A firewall
can help you segment and contain parts of your network to increase
security.
* Network access control - A firewall can help you enforce your
network security policies by selectively allowing network services
(to all or selected hosts).
* Logging - Because a firewall must examine all inbound/outbound
network traffic, it can help you log network activity (that passes
through the firewall).
So What's A Packet Filter?
A packet filter is a piece of software which looks at the header
of packets as they pass through, and decides the fate of the entire
packet. It might decide to DROP the packet (i.e., discard the packet
as if it had never received it), ACCEPT the packet (i.e., let the
packet go through), or something more complicated.
Under Linux, packet filtering is built into the kernel (as a kernel
module, or built right in), and there are a few trickier things we
can do with packets, but the general principle of looking at the
headers and deciding the fate of the packet is still there.

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IPTABLES
replaces older IPchains firewall in linux
available since 2.4 kernel
Allows configuration of built-in firewall rules for host-based
protection
IPtables can be used for routing, forwarding, filtering
ipfwadm for linux kernel 2.0
ipchains for linux kernel 2.2
iptables for linux kernel 2.4/2.6

What is Netfilter/Iptables?
Netfilter is the framework in Linux kernels that allow for
firewalling, NAT, and packet mangling.
Iptables is the userspace tools that works with the Netfilter
framework (technically a lie; Iptables is also a part of the
Netfilter framework in the kernel). Think of Netfilter as kernel
space, and Iptables as userspace.
- Iptables is merely user space tool provides the administrator,
means of configuring the core netfilter services that actually part
of the kernel

IPtables is Statefull packet filtering firewall

We can monitor the states of communication process and make
decisions based on that Defintely a useful feature. In the past,
people were able to bypass firewall rules by skipping the beginning
part of TCP communication process.
A stateful firewall (any firewall that performs stateful packet
inspection (SPI) or stateful inspection) is a firewall that keeps
track of the state of network connections (such as TCP streams, UDP
communication) travelling across it. The firewall is programmed to
distinguish legitimate packets for different types of connections.
Only packets matching a known connection state will be allowed by
the firewall; others will be rejected.
Before the advent of stateful firewalls, a stateless firewall, a
firewall that treats each network frame (or packet) in isolation,

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was normal. Such a firewall has no way of knowing if any given
packet is part of an existing connection, is trying to establish a
new connection, or is just a rogue packet. Modern firewalls are
connection-aware (or state-aware), affording network administrators
finer-grained control of network traffic.

- can filter based upon source

IPAddress, protocol, port and connection state connection state
which defines iptables as a statefull packet filtering firewall

- Can filter based upon MAC Addresss

This is obviously used very less. But in some of DMZ environment
where you have control set of MACs this might be a little bit easier
or makes more sense to use this feature

- Can filter out malformed packets based upon TCP Flags set in
packets
So we know that particular machine will never be seeing a christmas
tree packet where pretty much everything is turned on, so we can set
out filters to protect against these type of attacks

Packet Processing In iptables

All packets inspected by iptables pass through a sequence of built-
in tables (queues) for processing. Each of these queues is
dedicated to a particular type of packet activity and is controlled
by an associated packet transformation/filtering chain.
There are three tables in total. The first is the mangle table
which is responsible for the alteration of quality of service bits
in the TCP header. This is hardly used in a home or SOHO
environment.
The second table is the filter queue which is responsible for
packet filtering. It has three built-in chains in which you can
place your firewall policy rules. These are the:

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 Forward chain: Filters packets to servers protected by the
firewall.

Input chain: Filters packets destined for the firewall.

Output chain: Filters packets originating from the firewall.

The third table is the nat queue which is responsible for network
address translation. It has two built-in chains; these are:

Pre-routing chain: NATs packets when the destination address of

the packet needs to be changed.

Post-routing chain: NATs packets when the source address of the

packet needs to be changed

Packet
Queue Queue
Transformation Chain Function
Type Function
Chain in Queue
Filter Packet FORWARD Filters packets to servers accessible
filtering by another NIC on the firewall.
INPUT Filters packets destined to the
firewall.
OUTPUT Filters packets originating from the
firewall
Nat Network PREROUTING Address translation occurs before
Address routing. Facilitates the transformation
Translatio of the destination IP address to be
n compatible with the firewall's routing
table. Used with NAT of the destination
IP address, also known as destination
NAT or DNAT.
POSTROUTING Address translation occurs after
routing. This implies that there was no
need to modify the destination IP
address of the packet as in pre-
routing. Used with NAT of the source IP
address using either one-to-one or
many-to-one NAT. This is known as
source NAT, or SNAT.
OUTPUT Network address translation for packets
generated by the firewall. (Rarely used
in SOHO environments)

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Mangle TCP header PREROUTING Modification of the TCP packet quality
modificati POSTROUTING of service bits before routing occurs.
on OUTPUT (Rarely used in SOHO environments)
INPUT
FORWARD

You need to specify the table and the chain for each firewall rule
you create. There is an exception: Most rules are related to
filtering, so iptables assumes that any chain that's defined
without an associated table will be a part of the filter table. The
filter table is therefore the default.
To help make this clearer, take a look at the way packets are
handled by iptables. In Figure 14.1 a TCP packet from the Internet
arrives at the firewall's interface on Network A to create a data
connection.

The packet is first examined by your rules in the mangle

table's PREROUTING chain, if any. It is then inspected by
the rules in the nat table's PREROUTING chain to see
whether the packet requires DNAT. It is then routed.
If the packet is destined for a protected network, then
it is filtered by the rules in the FORWARD chain of the
filter table and, if necessary, the packet undergoes SNAT
in the POSTROUTING chain before arriving at Network B.
When the destination server decides to reply, the packet
undergoes the same sequence of steps. Both the FORWARD
and POSTROUTING chains may be configured to implement
quality of service (QoS) features in their mangle tables,
but this is not usually done in SOHO environments.
If the packet is destined for the firewall itself, then
it passes through the mangle table of the INPUT chain, if
configured, before being filtered by the rules in the
INPUT chain of the filter table before. If it
successfully passes these tests then it is processed by
the intended application on the firewall.
At some point, the firewall needs to reply. This reply is
routed and inspected by the rules in the OUTPUT chain of
the mangle table, if any. Next, the rules in the OUTPUT
chain of the nat table determine whether DNAT is required
and the rules in the OUTPUT chain of the filter table are
then inspected to help restrict unauthorized packets.
Finally, before the packet is sent back to the Internet,
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SNAT and QoS mangling is done by the POSTROUTING chain

Packet Flow As Follows

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 Targets And Jumps
Each firewall rule inspects each IP packet and then tries to
identify it as the target of some sort of operation. Once a target
is identified, the packet needs to jump over to it for further
processing. Table 14.2 lists the built-in targets that iptables
uses.
Table 14-2 Descriptions Of The Most Commonly Used Targets
Most Common
Target Desciption
Options
ACCEPT iptables stops N/A
further
processing.
The packet is
handed over to
the end
application or
the operating
system for
processing
DROP iptables stops N/A
further
processing.
The packet is
blocked
LOG The packet --log-prefix "string"
information is Tells iptables to prefix
sent to the all log messages with a
syslog daemon for user defined string.
logging Frequently used to tell
iptables why the logged packet
continues was dropped
processing with
the next rule in
the table
As you can't log
and drop at the
same time, it is
common to have
two similar rules
in sequence. The
first will log
the packet, the
second will drop
it.

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REJECT Works like the --reject-with
DROP target, but qualifier
will also return The qualifier
an error message tells what
to the host type of reject
sending the message is
packet that the returned.
packet was Qualifiers
blocked include:
icmp-port-
unreachable
(default)
icmp-net-
unreachable
icmp-host-
unreachable
icmp-proto-
unreachable
icmp-net-
prohibited
icmp-host-
prohibited
tcp-reset
echo-reply
DNAT Used to do --to-
destination destination
network address ipaddress
translation. ie. Tells iptables
rewriting the what the
destination IP destination IP
address of the address should
packet be
SNAT Used to do source --to-source
network address <address>[-
translation <address>]
rewriting the [:<port>-
source IP address <port>]
of the packet Specifies the
The source IP source IP
address is user address and
defined ports to be
used by SNAT.
MASQUERADE Used to do Source [--to-ports
Network Address <port>[-
Translation. <port>]]
By default the Specifies the
range of
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 source IP address source ports
is the same as to which the
that used by the original
firewall's source port
interface can be mapped.

Important Iptables Command Switch Operations

Each line of an iptables script not only has a jump, but they also
have a number of command line options that are used to append rules
to chains that match your defined packet characteristics, such the
source IP address and TCP port. There are also options that can be
used to just clear a chain so you can start all over again. Tables
14.2 through 14.6 list the most common options.
Table 14-2 General Iptables Match Criteria
iptables
Desciption
command Switch
-t <-table-> If you don't specify a table, then the
filter table is assumed. As discussed
before, the possible built-in tables
include: filter, nat, mangle
-j <target> Jump to the specified target chain when
the packet matches the current rule.
-A Append rule to end of a chain
-F Flush. Deletes all the rules in the
selected table
-p <protocol- Match protocol. Types include, icmp, tcp,
type> udp, and all
-s <ip- Match source IP address
address>
-d <ip- Match destination IP address
address>
-i <interface- Match "input" interface on which the
name> packet enters.
-o <interface- Match "output" interface on which the
name> packet exits

In this command switches example

iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 -i eth0 -d 192.168.1.1 -p TCP -j ACCEPT
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iptables is being configured to allow the firewall to accept TCP
packets coming in on interface eth0 from any IP address destined
for the firewall's IP address of 192.168.1.1. The 0/0
representation of an IP address means any.

Table 14-4 Common TCP and UDP Match Criteria

Switch Desciption
-p tcp TCP source port. Can be a single value or a
--sport range in the format: start-port-
<port> number:end-port-number
-p tcp TCP destination port. Can be a single value
--dport or a range in the format: starting-
<port> port:ending-port
-p tcp --syn Used to identify a new TCP connection
request. ! --syn means, not a new
connection request
-p udp UDP source port. Can be a single value or a
--sport range in the format: starting-port:ending-
<port> port
-p udp UDP destination port. Can be a single value
--dport or a range in the format: starting-
<port> port:ending-port

Checking whether Iptables is default installed on our server

$ rpm -q iptables
$ rpm -ql iptables
- /sbin/iptables
this allows us to view the configuration and change it
- /sbin/iptables-restore
this allows us to restore the firewall or running firewall
configuration from a saved configuration
- /sbin/iptables-save
this allows the save the running configuration

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- Modules are stored in /lib/iptables/
- Iptables itself is a module
$ lsmod | grep -i iptab
Modules for Iptables:
ip_tables
iptable_filter
iptable_nat
iptable_mangle
$ lsmod | grep -i ipt
ipt_REJECT - target (fate)
ipt_state - allows to maintain state information
ip_conntrack - kernel can keep track of connections
SYNTAX
$ iptables -t table <Action> <Direction/Chains> <Packet Pattern> -j
<fate>
iptables Won't Start
The iptables startup script expects to find the
/etc/sysconfig/iptables before it starts. If none exists, then
symptoms include the firewall status always being stopped and
the /etc/init.d/iptables script running without the typical [OK] or
[FAILED] messages.
If you have just installed iptables and have never applied a
policy, then you will face this problem. Unfortunately, running the
service iptables save command before restarting won't help either.
You have to create this file.
[root@bigboy tmp]# service iptables start
[root@bigboy tmp]#
[root@bigboy tmp]# touch /etc/sysconfig/iptables
[root@bigboy tmp]# chmod 600 /etc/sysconfig/iptables
[root@bigboy tmp]# service iptables start
Applying iptables firewall rules: [ OK ]
[root@bigboy tmp]#

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Linux Iptables allow or block ICMP ping request
The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) has many messages that
are identified by a "type" field. You need to use 0 and 8 ICMP code
types.
=> Zero (0) is for echo-reply
=> Eight (8) is for echo-request.
To enable ICMP ping incoming client request use following iptables
rule (you need to add following rules to script).
My default firewall policy is blocking everything.

Task: Enable or allow ICMP ping incoming client request

Rule to enable ICMP ping incoming client request ( assuming that
default iptables policy is to drop all INPUT and OUTPUT packets)
SERVER_IP="202.54.10.20"
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -s 0/0 -d $SERVER_IP -m
state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -s $SERVER_IP -d 0/0 -m
state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
Task: Allow or enable outgoing ping request
To enable ICMP ping outgoing request use following iptables rule:
SERVER_IP="202.54.10.20"
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -s $SERVER_IP -d 0/0 -m
state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 0 -s 0/0 -d $SERVER_IP -m
state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
How do I disable outgoing ICMP request?
Use the following rules:
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
OR
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -j DROP
ICMP echo-request type will be block by above rule.
See ICMP TYPE NUMBERS (type fields). You can also get list of ICMP

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types, just type following command at shell prompt:

$ /sbin/iptables -p icmp -h
$ iptables -t filter -P INPUT DROP
$ iptables -t filter -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -P FORWARD ACCEPT

$ allow local loopback connections

$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

Drop INVALID connections

$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP
$ iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP
$ iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

Allow all established and related

$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED
-j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED
-j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -m state --state
ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
Allow connections to my ISP's DNS servers
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -s 213.73.255.52 -p tcp -m tcp ! --tcp-
flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -s 213.73.255.52 -p udp -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -s 213.132.189.250 -p tcp -m tcp !
--tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -s 213.132.189.250 -p udp -j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -s 213.73.255.53 -p tcp -m tcp !
--tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j ACCEPT
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$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -s 213.73.255.53 -p udp -j ACCEPT
open ports 4662,4672 = amule, 5900,5901 = vnc, 22 = ssh
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 4662 -j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 4672 -j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5900 -j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5901 -j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

bittorrent :
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6881:6889 -j
ACCEPT

samba (only connections from lan are accepted)

$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -o eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
-p tcp -m tcp --dport 137:139 -j ACCEPT
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -o eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
-p udp -m udp --dport 137:139 -j ACCEPT
log all other attempted in going connections
$ iptables -t filter -A INPUT -o eth0 -j LOG
NAT
set up IP forwarding and nat
$ iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT
$ iptables -t nat -P PREROUTING ACCEPT
# 6891:6900 = msn filetransfers
# 192.168.0.1 = gateway
# 192.168.0.216 = client in network
$ iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport
6891:6900 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.216:6891-6900
$ iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport
6891:6900 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.216:6891-6900
$ iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
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Policy
$ IPTABLES -P INPUT ACCEPT
$ IPTABLES -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
$ IPTABLES -P FORWARD ACCEPT

Tables
$ IPTABLES -N tcp_packets
$ IPTABLES -N icmp_packets
$ IPTABLES -N udpincoming_packets

IP Masquerade
$ IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $INET_IFACE -j MASQUERADE

Squid transparent proxy

$ IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j
REDIRECT --to-port 3128
$ IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth2 -p tcp --dport 80 -j
REDIRECT --to-port 3128
$ IPTABLES -A PREROUTING -t nat -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j
REDIRECT --to-port 3128
smtp
$IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -p TCP -s 0/0 --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
www
$IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -p TCP -s 0/0 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
https
$IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -p TCP -s 0/0 --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
mail
$ IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -p TCP -s 0/0 --dport 465 -j ACCEPT
$ IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -p TCP -s 0/0 --dport 993 -j ACCEPT
$ IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -p TCP -s 0/0 --dport 995 -j ACCEPT
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wlan vpn
$ IPTABLES -A wlan_packets -p UDP -s 0/0 --dport 5000 -j ACCEPT
$ IPTABLES -A wlan_packets -p ALL -j DROP
iptables blocking with mac address
Drop all connection coming from mac address 00:0F:EA:91:04:08 (add
command to your firewall script)
$ iptables -A INPUT -m mac --mac-source 00:0F:EA:91:04:08 -j DROP
iptables allowing with mac address
Allow port 22 for mac address 00:0F:EA:91:04:07
$ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 22 -m mac --mac-
source
00:0F:EA:91:04:07 -j ACCEPT

General syntax:
$ iptables RULE -m time --timestart TIME --timestop TIME --days
DAYS -j ACTION
Where,
--timestart TIME : Time start value . Format is 00:00-23:59 (24
hours format)
--timestop TIME : Time stop value.
--days DAYS : Match only if today is one of the given days.
(format: Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun ; default everyday)
An example
Suppose you would like to allow incoming ssh access only available
from Monday to Friday between 9 AM to 6. Then you need to use
iptables as follows:
Input rule:
$ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --sport 513:65535 -d 202.54.1.20
--dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -m time --timestart
09:00 --timestop 18:00 --days Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri -j ACCEPT
Output rule:
$ iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 202.54.1.20 --sport 22 -d 0/0
--dport 513:655 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -m time --timestart
09:00 --timestop 18:00 --days Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri -j ACCEPT
Force SYN packets check
Make sure NEW incoming tcp connections are SYN packets; otherwise
we need to drop them:
$ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP

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Force Fragments packets check
Packets with incoming fragments drop them. This attack result into
Linux server panic such data loss.
$ iptables -A INPUT -f -j DROP
XMAS packets
Incoming malformed XMAS packets drop them:
$ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL ALL -j DROP
Drop all NULL packets
Incoming malformed NULL packets:
$ iptables -A INPIT -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL NONE -j DROP
Protect against SYN floods by rate limiting the number of new connections from
any host to 60 per second. This does *not* do rate limiting overall, because
then someone could easily shut us down by saturating the limit.
$ iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp -m tcp --syn \
-m recent --name synflood --set
$ iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp -m tcp --syn \
-m recent --name synflood --update --seconds 1 --hitcount 60 -j DROP
The same can be achieved in ipfw using the dummynet shaper:
Direct SYN
ipfw pipe 500 config bw 64Kbit/s queue 5
ipfw add 500 pipe 500 tcp from any to any in setup
Port scanning
A lot of hosts try to port scan my server these days, looking for
open services they can try to exploit. Since I run very few
services on my server, what I like to do is look for port
connections to a commonly scanned port (port 139, for Windows File
Sharing), and then block the hosts who attempt the connection from
talking to my server for an entire day. The rule is quite simple
using the iptables recent module:
Anyone who tried to portscan us is locked out for an entire day.
$ iptables -A INPUT -m recent --name portscan --rcheck --seconds
86400 -j DROP
$ iptables -A FORWARD -m recent --name portscan --rcheck --seconds
86400 -j DROP
Once the day has passed, remove them from the portscan list
$ iptables -A INPUT -m recent --name portscan --remove
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$ iptables -A FORWARD -m recent --name portscan --remove
CLOSE INCOMING TCP
$ IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j
ACCEPT
$ IPTABLES -A tcp_packets -p TCP -s 0/0 -j DROP
CLOSE INCOMING UDP
$ IPTABLES -A udpincoming_packets -m state --state
ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$ IPTABLES -A udpincoming_packets -p UDP -j DROP

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DNS Basics

Finding a single server out of all of the servers on the Internet

is like trying to find a single file on drive with thousands of
files. In both cases it helps to have some hierarchy built into the
directory to logically group things. The DNS "namespace" is
hierarchical in the same type of upside-down tree structure seen
with file systems. Just as you have the root of a partition or
drive, the DNS namespace has a root which is signified by a period.

When specifying the absolute path to a file in a file system you

start at the root and go to the file:
/etc/bind/named.conf

When specifying the absolute path to a server in the DNS namespace

you start at the server and go to the root:

www.aboutdebian.com.

Note that period after the 'com' as it's important. It's how you
specify the root of the namespace. An absolute path in the DNS
namespace is called a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). The use
of FQDNs are prevalent in DNS configuration files and it's
important that you always use that trailing period.

Internet resources are usually specified by a domain name and a

server hostname. The www part of a URL is often the hostname of the
Web server (or it could be an alias to a server with a different
host name). DNS is basically just a database with records for these
hostnames. The directory for the entire telephone system is not
stored in one huge phone book. Rather, it is broken up into many
pieces with each city having, and maintaining, its piece of the
entire directory in its phone book. By the same token, pieces of
the DNS directory database (the "zones") are stored, and
maintained, on many different DNS servers located around the
Internet. If you want to find the telephone number for a person in
Poughkeepsie, you'd have to look in the Poughkeepsie telephone
book. If you want to find the IP address of the www server in the
some-domain.com domain, you'd have to query the DNS server that
stores the DNS records for that domain.
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The entries in the database map a host/domain name to an IP
address. Here is a simplistic logical view of the type of
information that is stored (we'll get to the A, CNAME, and MX
designations in a bit).

A www.their-domain.com 172.29.183.103

MX mail.their-domain.com 172.29.183.217

A debian.your-domain.com 10.177.8.3

CNAME www.your-domain.com 10.177.8.3

MX debian.your-domain.com 10.177.8.3

This is why a real Internet server needs a static (unchanging) IP

address. The IP address of the server's NIC connected to the
Internet has to match whatever address is in the DNS database.
Dynamic DNS does provide a way around this for home servers
however, which we'll see later.

When you want to browse to www.their-domain.com your DNS server

(the one you specify in the TCP/IP configuration on your desktop
computer) most likely won't have a DNS record for the their-
domain.com domain so it has to contact the DNS server that does.
When your DNS server contacts the DNS server that has the DNS
records (referred to as "resource records" or "zone records") for
their-domain.com your DNS server gets the IP address of the www
server and relays that address back to your desktop computer. So
which DNS server has the DNS records for a particular domain?

When you register a domain name with someone like Network

Solutions, one of the things they ask you for are the server names
and addresses of two or three "name servers" (DNS servers). These
are the servers where the DNS records for your domain will be
stored (and queried by the DNS servers of those browsing to your
site). So where do you get the "name servers" information for your
domain? Typically, when you host your Web site using a Web hosting
service they not only provide a Web server for your domain's Web
site files but they will also provide a DNS server to store your
domain's DNS records. In other words, you'll want to know who your
Web hosting provider is going to be before you register a domain
name (so you can enter the provider's DNS server information in the
name servers section of the domain name registration application).

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 You'll see the term "zone" used in DNS references. Most of the
time a zone just equates to a domain. The only times this
wouldn't be true is if you set up subdomains and set up separate
DNS servers to handle just those subdomains. For example, a
company would set up the subdomains us.their-domain.com and
europe.their-domain.com and would "delegate" a separate DNS
server to each one of them. In the case of these two DNS servers
their zone would be just the subdomains. The zone of the DNS
server for the parent their-domain.com (which would contain the
servers www.their-domain.com and mail.their-domain.com) would
only contain records for those few machines in the parent
domain.

Note that in the above example "us" and "europe" are subdomains
while "www" and "mail" are host names of servers in the parent
domain.

Once you've got your Web site up and running on your Web hosting
provider's servers and someone surf's to your site, the DNS server
they specified in their local TCP/IP configuration will query your
hosting provider's DNS servers to get the IP address for your Web
site. The DNS servers that host the DNS records for your domain,
i.e. the DNS servers you specify in your domain name registration
application, are the authoritative DNS servers for your domain. The
surfer's DNS server queries one of your site's authoritative DNS
servers to get an address and gets an authoritative response. When
the surfer's DNS server relays the address information back to the
surfer's local PC it is a "non-authoritaive" response because the
surfer's DNS server is not an authoritative DNS server for your
domain.
Domains and Delegation
The Domain Name System uses a tree (or hierarchical) name
structure. At the top of the tree is the root node followed by the
Top-Level Domains (TLDs), then the Second-Level Domains (SLD) and
any number of lower levels, each separated with a dot.
s Note The root of the tree is represented most of the time as a
silent dot ( . ), but there are times when it
is VERY important.

TLDs are split into two types:

1. Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD): For example, .com, .edu, .net,
.org, .mil, etc.
2. Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLD): For example, .us,
.ca, .tv, .uk, etc. Country Code TLDs use a standard two-letter
sequence defined by ISO 3166.2 Figure 1-1

DNS name resolution is nothing but resolving host names, such as

www.nixcraft.com, to their corresponding IP addresses. DNS works as
the "phone book" for the Internet by translating hostname into IP
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address or vise versa. Most DNS server stores following
information:
a) Hostname and their IP address
b) List of mail server and their IP address for given domain name
c) Anti spam configuration and much more.
Without DNS name resolution, nothing will work on the Internet.
Nobody likes to remember IP address, so DNS is foundation of many
Internet services such as web, proxy, email and so on.

Resolving DNS names to IP addresses

When you type www.yahoo.com into a web browser, the application has
to find out IP address associated with www.yahoo.com. Each part of
network has DNS server or name servers. Each application send a
request called dns lookup to DNS server. Each DNS server has
limited information about host names and ip address. Almost all DNS
server constantly query each other to get information using root
servers.
Each computer is configured to query specific name server. Usually
home computers are configure to query ISP name servers or free dns
name servers. Here is a typical UNIX / Linux /etc/resolv.conf file
with nameserver IP address:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

Sample output:
nameserver208.67.222.222
nameserver208.67.220.220
Each application can find www.yahoo.com IP address by sending a
request to 208.67.222.222 or 208.67.220.220 IP address. This
procedure is called hostname resolution and the algorithm that
performs this operation is called the resolver. Let us see how to
find out IP address for freebsd.nixcraft.in hostname:
1. The web browser will check local cache database to find out
answer. If it can get an answer directly from these, it proceeds
no further.
2. Otherwise request will be sent to nameserver IP 208.67.222.222
to find IP address for freebsd.nixcraft.in host.
3. 208.67.222.222 server will decide if that IP has been recently
looked up before. If it has, there is no need to ask further,
since the result would be stored in a local cache.
4. 208.67.222.222 will see if the domain is local. I.e. if it is
a computer that it has direct information about. In this case
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 this would only be true if the 208.67.222.222 were Obsidian's
very own name server.
5. 208.67.222.222 will strip out the TLD (Top Level Domain) .in
It will query a root name server, asking what name server is
responsible for .IN. Depend upon the answer 208.67.222.222 will
query authoritative server for IP address.
6. 208.67.222.222 will return the result to the application.
7. 208.67.222.222 will store each of these results in a local
cache with an expiry date. To avoid having to look them up a
second time.

Caching nameserver

To run a caching-only name server, the following files are required

and must be created or copied to the appropriate directories on
your server.

Copy the named.conf file to the /etc/ directory.

Copy the db.127.0.0 file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the db.cache file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the named script file to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory.
To run a master name server, the following files are required and
must be created or copied to the appropriate directories on your
server.

Copy the named.conf file to the /etc/ directory.

Copy the db.127.0.0 file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the db.cache file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the db.208.164.186 file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the db.altnix file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the named script file to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory.
To run a slave name server, the following files are required and
must be created or copied to the appropriate directories on your
server.
Copy the named.conf file to the /etc/ directory.
Copy the db.127.0.0 file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the db.cache file to the /var/named/ directory.
Copy the named script file to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory.
Linux DNS and BIND Server
Caching-only name Server
Setting up a caching server for client local machines will reduce
the load on the site's primary server. A caching only name server
will find the answer to name queries and remember the answer the
next time we need it. This will shorten the waiting time the next
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time significantly. For security reasons, it is very important that
DNS doesn't exist between hosts on the corporate network and
external hosts; it is far safer to simply use IP addresses to
connect to external machines from the corporate network and vice-
versa.
In our configuration and installation we'll run BIND/DNS as non
root-user and in a chrooted environment. We also provide you three
different configurations;
one for a simple caching name server only client
one for a slave secondary server
one for a master name server primary server.
The simple caching name server configuration will be used for your
servers that don't act as a master or slave name server, and the
slave and master configurations will be used for your servers that
act as a master name server and slave name server. Usually one of
your servers acts as master, another one acts as slave and the rest
act as simple caching client name server.
This is a graphical representation of the DNS configuration we use
in this book. We try to show you different settings

Caching Only DNS

Master DNS
Slave DNS
on different servers. A lot of possibilities exist, an
Caching-only name servers are servers not authoritative for any
domains except 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, the localhost. A caching-only
name server can look up names inside and outside your zone, as can
primary and slave name servers. The difference is that when a
caching-only name server initially looks up a name within your
zone, it ends up asking one of the primary or slave names servers
for your zone for the answer.
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The necessary files to setup a simple caching name server are:
named.conf
db.127.0.0
db.cache
named script
To configure the /etc/named.conf file for a simple caching name
server, use this for all servers that dont act as a master or slave
name server. Setting up a simple caching server for local client
machines will reduce the load on the network's primary server. Many
users on dialup connections may use this configuration along with
bind for such a purpose. Create the named.conf file, touch
/etc/named.conf and add the following lines to the file:

options {
directory "/var/named";
forwarders { 208.164.186.1; 208.164.186.2; };
forward only;
};
//
// a caching only nameserver config
zone "." in {
type hint;
file "db.cache";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "db.127.0.0";
};

In the forwarders line, 208.164.186.1 and 208.164.186.2 are the

IP addresses of your Primary Master and Secondary Slave DNS server.
They can also be the IP addresses of your ISPs DNS server and
another DNS server, respectively.
TIP: To improve the security of your BIND/DNS server you can stop
it from even trying to contact an off-site server if their
forwarder is down or doesn't respond. With the forward only option
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set in your named.conf file, the name server doesn't try to contact
other servers to find out information if the forwarder doesn't give
it an answer.
To configure the /var/named/db.127.0.0 file for a simple caching
name server,you can use this configuration for all machines on your
network that don't act as a master or slave name server. The
db.127.0.0 file covers the loopback network. Create the following
files in /var/named/, touch /var/named/db.127.0.0 and add the
following lines in the file:

$TTL 345600
@ IN SOA localhost.
root.localhost. (
00 ; Serial
86400 ; Refresh
7200 ; Retry
2592000 ; Expire
345600 ); Minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.

Configure the /var/named/db.cache file for a simple caching name

server before starting your DNS server. You must take a copy of
db.cache file and copy this file to the /var/named/ directory. The
db.cache tells your server where the servers for the root zone are.
Use the following commands on another Unix computer in your
organization to query a new db.cache file for your DNS Server or
pick one from your Red Hat Linux CD-ROM source distribution:

[root@deep]# dig @.aroot-servers.net . ns >

db.cache

Primary master name Server

A primary master name server for a zone reads the data for the zone
from a file on it's host and are authoritative for that zone.The
necessary files to setup a primary master name server are:
named.conf
db.127.0.0
db.208.164.186
db.altnix
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db.cache
named script
To configure the /etc/named.conf file for a master name server, use
this configuration for the server on your network that acts as a
master name server. After compiling DNS, you need to set up a
primary domain name for your server. We'll use altnix.com as an
example domain, and assume you are using IP network address of
208.164.186.0. To do this, add the following lines to your
/etc/named.conf. Create the named.conf file touch /etc/named.conf
and add:

options {
directory "/var/named";
fetch-glue no;
recursion no;
allow-query { 208.164.186/24; 127.0.0/8; };
allow-transfer { 208.164.186.2; };
transfer-format many-answers;
};

// These files are not specific to any zone

zone "." in {
type hint;
file "db.cache";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "db.127.0.0";
};

// These are our primary zone files

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 zone "altnix.com" in {
type master;
file "db.altnix ";
};

zone "186.164.208.in-addr.arpa" in {
type master;
file "db.208.164.186";
};

The fetch-glue no option can be used in conjunction with the

option recursion no to prevent the server's cache from growing or
becoming corrupted. Also, disabling recursion puts your name
servers into a passive mode, telling it never to send queries on
behalf of other name servers or resolvers. A non-recursive name
server is very difficult to spoof, since it doesn't send queries,
and hence doesn't cache any data.
In the allow-query line, 208.164.186/24 and 127.0.0/8 are the IP
addresses allowed to ask ordinary questions to the server.
In the allow-transfer line, 208.164.186.2 is the IP address
allowed to receive zone transfers from the server. You must ensure
that only your real slave name servers can transfer zones from your
name serve, as the information provided is often used by spammers
and IP spoofers.
NOTE: The options recursion no, allow-query, and allow-transfer in
the named.conf file above are security features.
To configure the /var/named/db.127.0.0 file for a master and slave
name server, you can use this configuration file by both a master
name server and a slave name server. The db.127.0.0 file covers the
loopback network. Create the following files in /var/named/.

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Create the db.127.0.0 file, touch /var/named/db.127.0.0 and add:

; Revision History: April 22, 1999 -

[email protected]
; Start of Authority (SOA) records.
$TTL 345600
@ IN SOA deep.altnix.com.
admin.mail.altnix.com. (
00 ; Serial
86400 ; Refresh
7200 ; Retry
2592000 ; Expire
345600 ); Minimum

; Name Server (NS) records.

NS deep.altnix.com.
NS mail.altnix.com.

; only One PTR record.

1 PTR localhost.

To configure the /var/named/db.208.164.186 file for a master name

server, Use this configuration for the server on your network that
acts as a master name server. The file db.208.164.186 maps host
names to addresses. Create the following files in /var/named/.

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Create the db.208.164.186 file, touch /var/named/db.208.164.186 and
add:

; Revision History: April 22, 1999 -

[email protected]
; Start of Authority (SOA) records.
$TTL 345600
@ IN SOA deep.altnix.com.
admin.mail.altnix.com. (
00 ; Serial
86400 ; Refresh
7200 ; Retry
2592000 ; Expire
345600 ); Minimum
; Name Server (NS) records.
NS deep.altnix.com.
NS mail.altnix.com.
; Addresses Point to Canonical Names (PTR) for
Reverse lookups
1 PTR deep.altnix.com.
2 PTR mail.altnix.com.
3 PTR www.altnix.com.

To configure of the /var/named/db.altnix file for a master name

server, use this configuration for the server on your network that
acts as a master name server. The file db.altnix maps addresses to
host names. Create the following file in /var/named/.

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Create the db.altnix file touch /var/named/db.altnix and add:

; Revision History: April 22, 1999 -

[email protected]
; Start of Authority (SOA) records.
$TTL 345600
@ IN SOA deep.altnix.com.
admin.mail.altnix.com. (
00 ; Serial
86400 ; Refresh
7200 ; Retry
2592000 ; Expire
345600 ); Minimum
; Name Server (NS) records.
NS deep.altnix.com.
NS mail.altnix.com.
; Mail Exchange (MX) records.
MX 0 mail.altnix.com.
; Address (A) records.
localhost A 127.0.0.1
deep A 208.164.186.1
mail A 208.164.186.2
www A 208.164.186.3
; Aliases in Canonical Name (CNAME) records.
;www CNAME
deep.altnix.com.

To configure the /var/named/db.cache file for a master and slave

name servers Before starting your DNS server you must take a copy
of the db.cache file and copy it into the /var/named/ directory.
The db.cache tells your server where the servers for the root zone

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are.

Use the following command on another Unix computer in your

organization to query a new db.cache file for your DNS Server or
pick one from your Red Hat Linux CD-ROM source distribution:

[root@deep] /# dig @.aroot-servers.net . ns >

db.cache

Don't forget to copy the db.cache file to the /var/named/ directory

on your server where you're installing DNS server after retrieving
it over the Internet.
Dig
http://www.madboa.com/geek/dig/
NS Trace
http://www.dollardns.net/cgi-bin/nstrace/index.pl?

Dns Crawler
http://www.dollardns.net/cgi-bin/dnscrawler/index.pl?

who is
http://whois.dollardns.net/domain.pl?

http://www.dollardns.net/index.html?
http://www.dollardns.net/compare.html

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 Apache

What is Apache?
- Apache is an open-source web server (HTTP server)
- Apache servers up web pages (HTML) and most any other content
that can be accessed via a web browser.
- It runs on Linux and Windows
- Apache is the number one web server on the internet today and has
been since 1996.
- Infact, 70% of all Internet websites run on Apache webserver
Lets talk about the history of apache web server
It was originally developed at National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at the university of illinois by Robert McCool in
around 1991. But it quickly became the public domain.
Robert McCool left NCSA in 1995 and httpd web server was not
maintained officially, so loosely organised group of developes
around the world came together to exchange patches, updates and
fixes.
- Apache was created around 1995 by a group of webmasters who got
together to create patches for the old httpd server in Unix.
- Today, that group is called the Apache Software Foundation.
- The homepage for Apache is http://httpd.apache.org

The source and compiled versions of Apache are all free

Why Apache
- high Performance
- Open Source
- Free
- Unrestrictive license
- can be modified and redistribute with another name
i.e Covalent Apache, IBM http server
- Runs on linux/unix/windows
Apache HTTP Server

version 1.3

+ single thread process model

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Version 2.0
+ multi-thread support (SMP)
+ support for non-unix platforms using MPM modules
- MPM --> Multi-Processing Modules
+ supports IPV6
+ new API
- meant easier for writing 3rd party modules

Differnce between iis & Apache

Apache -First, Apache doesn't install a lot of extra programs. A
default Apache build doesn't install any Apache modules
(extensions) at all -- just a basic webserver
IIS- By default, Windows 2000 and IIS install seven external
Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files plus FrontPage server extensions
Apache- Apache components, if their installed, run as a
nonprivileged user, so if a buffer overflow occurs, damage is
minimal. Conversely, Microsoft IIS allows system-level access,
thereby potentially granting root (superuser) permission. Any user,
even a remote one, who has root permission can access, change, and
delete any file anywhere on the system.
IIS - If the Internet Information Server (IIS) process dies on a
Windows Web server, no further requests are served until the
process is restarted
Apache - If a single Apache process dies, only the request being
served by that process is affected.

This approach has an obvious advantage over Web servers that use a
single process to respond to all requests: If the Internet
Information Server (IIS) process dies on a Windows Web server, no
further requests are served until the process is restarted. If a
single Apache process dies, only the request being served by that
process is affected
Installing Apache
- RedHat Linux or Fedora Linux installs Apache web server, by
default. You can ofcourse, choose not to install it at installation
time if you wish.
- Apache is, however, disabled by default. In other words, it isnt
running.

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- RHEL or fedora does not, however, install the 31 optional related
applications that go along with Apache. You can install these from
the Package Manager application.
Administering Apache
- The Apache web server has its own configuration directory,
/etc/httpd/
- Inside this directory, there are subdirectories and soft links to
other directories.
- The actual configuration file for Apache is at /etc/httpd/conf/
and it is called httpd.conf
- All log files go to /var/log/httpd
- The httpd.conf can be edited manually.
- Apache can be started manually by typing "httpd" at the command
line but the recommended way to start it is using the Services
program.
- The "DocumentRoot" directory (/var/www/htm/) is where the default
website is located.
- Apache can also deliver user's webpages. This is defined with the
"UserDir" directive and users directories can be acccessed, through
Apache like this:
http://www.altnix.com/~sadhiq
- Apache can also support Virtual hosting with the "VirtualHost"
directive
- web server servers many different websites
- Apache cannot be run from a Super Server like XinetD.
- To administer apache, GUI tool is available: system-config-httpd
SPECS
Package: httpd
Version: 2.2
Conf file: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
DocumentRoot for storing web pages: /var/www/html
Apache Modules: /etc/httpd/modules/
/usr/lib/httpd/modules/
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Commands:
1. Syntax Check
$ apachectl configtest
OR
$ httpd -t
2. check compiled in modules
$ httpd -l
Service:
$ service httpd start
OR
$ apachectl start
Four main directories:
- /etc/httpd/conf/
- /etc/httpd/conf.d/
- /etc/httpd/logs/
--> sym link to /var/log/httpd/
/etc/httpd/modules

Packages included in RHEL:

$ rpm -qa | grep httpd
httpd-manual-2.0.52-19.ent
httpd-2.0.52-19.ent
system-config-httpd-1.3.1-1
httpd-suexec-2.0.52-19.ent
Configuration Files
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf - Main Apache Configuration File
/
/etc/logrotate.d/httpd -- Logrotation File
/
/etc/httpd/conf.d
- Contains items that have included for different type
of application
- Files under /etc/httpd/conf.d
perl.conf
php.conf (CGI scripting language)
python.conf (CGI scripting language)
ssl.conf (how ssl to be implemented)
webalizer.conf (analysis software)
welcome.conf (in the event attempt to access the URL
which has no default document)

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Quickway: webserver configuration
$ cd /var/www/html
$ vi index.html
----------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>
Quickway: webserver configuration
</title>
<body>
Quickway: webserver configuration: IP
</body>
</html>
----------------------------
$ service httpd restart
$ links http://<IP_of_the_webserver>
Dedicated webserver configuration: altnix.com
$ cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf_ORIG
$ vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
----------------------------------------------
ServerRoot "/etc/httpd" #default
Listen 80 #default
ServerName www.altnix.com:80
ServerAdmin [email protected]
User apache #default
Group apache #default
# set folder for the webpages
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
# set the name of the file that is first read
DirectoryIndex index.html
apachectl configtest
OR
$ httpd -t
Start the http service
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 $ service httpd restart
OR
$ apachectl restart
Confirm the httpd daemon running on port 80
$ netstat -antp | grep :80
Test from the client machine
linux> links http://www.altnix.com
make httpd start on bootup
$ chkconfig --level 35 httpd on
What is Virtual Hosting

Virtual Hosting is the ability host multiple separate web sites

with one Apache Server
Each site is separate from each other, with different DocumentRoot,
log files, permissions, etc
Two types of Virtual Hosting
1. IP based virtual Hosts
- Each IP corresponds to its own individual website
- IP based VH is where each virtual host has its own IP
address
+ single server
--> One Apache Daemon, handling multiple websites
+ multiple server
--> Two or more independent Apache daemons, each one
handling a specific website
2. Name based virtual hosts
- Name based virtual hosts is used for hosting multiple
websites on the same webserver IP address.
Name Based Virtual Hosting
Scenario:
+ champu.local
+ funny.local
- both the websites running on the same ip address
- in my case: 192.168.10.111
Note: Make sure the DNS 'A' record of champu.local and funny.local
should resolve to 192.168.10.111
$ mkdir /var/www/html/champu.local
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$ cd /var/www/html/champu.local
$ vi index.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: CHAMPU: NAME BASED
</title>
<body>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: CHAMPU: NAME BASED
</body>
</html>
$ mkdir /var/www/html/funny.local
$ cd /var/www/html/funny.local
$ vi index.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: FUNNY: NAME BASED
</title>
<body>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: FUNNY: NAME BASED
<
</body>
</html>
----------------------------------------------
$ vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
----------------------------------------------
NameVirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/champu.local/
ServerName champu.local
ErrorLog logs/champu.local_error_log
CustomLog logs/champu.local_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]

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 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/funny.local
ServerName funny.local
ErrorLog logs/funny.local_error_log
CustomLog logs/funny.local_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
----------------------------------------------

$ httpd -t
$ service httpd restart
IP Based Virtual Hosting: Single Server Configuration
Note: Make sure the DNS 'A' record of champu.local should resolve
to 192.168.10.11
and funny.local to 192.168.10.222
Scenario:
+ champu.local
Resolves to 192.168.10.111
+ funny.local
R
Resolves to 192.168.10.222

1. Create IP alias
# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
# cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0:0
# vi ifcfg-eth0:0
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.10.255
IPADDR=192.168.10.222

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 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.10.0
O
ONBOOT=yes

2. Make the Alias IP up

# ifup eth0:0

3. Edit httpd.conf file

# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
----------------------------------------------
NameVirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/champu.local/
ServerName champu.local
ErrorLog logs/champu.local_error_log
CustomLog logs/champu.local_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
NameVirtualHost 192.168.10.222:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.222:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/funny.local
ServerName funny.local
ErrorLog logs/funny.local_error_log
CustomLog logs/funny.local_access_log common
</VirtualHost>

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$ cd /var/www/html/champu.local
$ vi index.html
------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: CHAMPU: IP BASED: 192.168.10.111
</title>
<body>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: CHAMPU: IP BASED: 192.168.10.111

</body>
</html>
$ cd /var/www/html/funny.local
$ vi index.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: FUNNY: IP BASED: 192.168.10.222
</title>
<body>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: FUNNY: IP BASED: 192.168.10.222
<
</body>
</html>
$ service httpd restart
================================================

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IP Based Virtual Hosting: Multiple Server Configuration
Scenario
+ champu.local
Resolves to 192.168.10.111 on port 80
+ funny.local
Resolves to 192.168.10.222 on port 8080
================================================

1. vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
----------------------------------------------
Listen 192.168.10.111:80
Listen 192.168.10.222:8080
NameVirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/champu.local/
www.alnix.com
ServerName champu.local
ErrorLog logs/champu.local_error_log
CustomLog logs/champu.local_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
NameVirtualHost 192.168.10.222:8080
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.222:8080>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/funny.local
ServerName funny.local
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 ErrorLog logs/funny.local_error_log
CustomLog logs/funny.local_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
$ cd /var/www/html/champu.local
$ vi index.html

---------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>

MY FIRST HTML PAGE: CHAMPU: IP BASED: 192.168.10.111, PORT: 80

</title>
<body>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: CHAMPU: IP BASED: 192.168.10.111,
PORT: 80
</body>
</html>
4. # cd /var/www/html/funny.local
5. # vi index.html

---------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: FUNNY: IP BASED: 192.168.10.222,
PORT: 8080
</title>
<body>
MY FIRST HTML PAGE: FUNNY: IP BASED: 192.168.10.222,
PORT: 8080
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 </body>
</html>

Test from the client machine

linux$> links http://www.champu.local
linux$> links http://www.funny.local:8080

1st WAY: Setup password protection - inside httpd.conf

www.alnix.com
$ mkdir /var/www/html/champu.local/noaccess
$ vi index.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>
CHAMPU: RESTRICTED ACCESS PAGE
</title>
<body>
CHAMPU: RESTRICTED ACCESS PAGE
</body>
</html>
$ vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
-------------------------------------------------
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.111:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/champu.local/
ServerName champu.local
<Directory /var/www/html/champu.local/noaccess>
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 AuthName "Restricted Site"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/champu.local/.passwords
require valid-user
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/champu.local_error_log
CustomLog logs/champu.local_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
-------------------------------------------------
Notes:
Basic Standard username/password combination.
Digest MD5 encrypted username/password combinations.
$ htpasswd -c /var/www/html/champu.local/.passwords champu
--> Give access to user john also
--> adds the user "john" to the password file
/var/www/html/champu.local/.passwords
$ htpasswd -m /var/www/html/champu.local/.passwords john
Test
$ links http://www.champu.local/noaccess
--> Prompts for username/passwd

Troubleshooting Apache
Checking the Logs
If there is something wrong with your Apache, but you have no idea
how to figure out what's wrong,
your first clues will be in the log files.
There are a few log files around. All of them are located inside
/var/log/httpd/
access_log

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67.185.0.236 - - [18/Jun/2005:12:05:50 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200
721
10.0.1.80 - - [18/Jun/2005:12:11:07 -0700] "GET
/~jaspenelle/__journal1.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 19079
66.239.233.163 - - [18/Jun/2005:12:15:06 -0700] "GET
/~jaspenelle/avy14.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 1661
67.185.60.155 - - [18/Jun/2005:12:18:48 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200
721
67.185.0.236 - - [18/Jun/2005:12:25:39 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200
721
10.0.1.80 - - [18/Jun/2005:12:28:04 -0700] "GET
/~jaspenelle/avy14.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1661

10.0.1.80 - - [18/Jun/2005:12:28:46 -0700] "GET

/~jaspenelle/avy7.png HTTP/1.1" 200 13066
This file is simply a listing of every file requested from your
server. Unless you have changed the default configuration, it will
be in Common Log Format:
Common Log Format syntax
remotehost rfc931 authuser [date] "request" status bytes
www.altnix.com
remotehost Remote host name or IP address
rfc931 The remote log name of the user.
authuser The user name as which the user has authenticated
himself.
[date] Date and time of the request.
"request" The request line exactly as it came from the client.
status The HTTP status code returned to the client.
bytes The content-length of the document transferred.
error_log
[Mon Feb 07 23:33:18 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
(wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec2)
[Mon Feb 07 23:33:18 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
digest authentication ...
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[Mon Feb 07 23:33:18 2005] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Feb 07 23:33:18 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Gentoo/Linux)
PHP/4.3.10 configured -- resuming normal
operations
[Sat Jun 18 13:01:54 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.80] File does not
exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/favicon.ico
[Sat Jun 18 13:02:14 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.80] File does not
exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/favicon.ico
[Sat Jun 18 13:02:18 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.80] File does not
exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/favicon.ico
[Sat Jun 18 13:02:21 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.80] File does not

exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/favicon.ico
[Sat Jun 18 13:02:24 2005] [error] [client 10.0.1.80] File does not
exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/favicon.ico
As you can see, this file can contain a lot of stuff, depending on
the ErrorLevel directive in your
httpd.conf file. It tells you if apache started up correctly, what
errors it has run into, ... In general it
will tell you what went wrong. If something isn't working right,
this should be the first file you check
for more information.

Tips and Tricks of my trade

Restart Apache Server without affecting existing connections
Sometimes you want to restart your Apache server after changing
some configuration in your virutual hosts,sites etc, but you have
few hundred clients currently downloading files from your server
and you dont want to disconnect them.
You need to use the following command
$ service httpd graceful
This will gracefully restart your Apache with new configuration
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without affecting your clients connections.

Performance tunning
The Apache HTTP Server is a modular program where the administrator
can choose the functions to be included in the server by selecting
a set of modules [2]. The modules can be compiled either statically
as part of the 'httpd' binary, or as Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs).
DSO modules can either be compiled when the server is built, or
added later via the apxs utility, which allows compilation at a
later date. The mod_so module must be statically compiled into the
Apache core to enable DSO support.

Run Apache with only the required modules. This reduces the memory
footprint, which improves the server performance. Statically
compiling modules will save RAM that's used for supporting
dynamically loaded modules, but you would have to recompile Apache
to add or remove a module. This is where the DSO mechanism comes
handy. Once the mod_so module is statically compiled, any other
module can be added or dropped using the 'LoadModule' command in
the 'httpd.conf' file. Of course, you will have to compile the
modules using 'apxs' if they weren't compiled when the server was
built.

Choose appropriate MPM:

The Apache server ships with a selection of Multi-Processing
Modules (MPMs) which are responsible for binding to network ports
on the machine, accepting requests, and dispatching children to
handle the requests [3]. Only one MPM can be loaded into the server
at any time.
Choosing an MPM depends on various factors, such as whether the OS
supports threads, how much memory is available, scalability versus
stability, whether non-thread-safe third-party modules are used,
etc.
Linux systems can choose to use a threaded MPM like worker or a
non-threaded MPM like prefork:
The worker MPM uses multiple child processes. It's multi-threaded
within each child, and each thread handles a single connection.
Worker is fast and highly scalable and the memory footprint is
comparatively low. It's well suited for multiple processors. On the
other hand, worker is less tolerant of faulty modules, and a faulty
thread can affect all the threads in a child process.
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The prefork MPM uses multiple child processes, each child handles
one connection at a time. Prefork is well suited for single or
double CPU systems, speed is comparable to that of worker, and it's
highly tolerant of faulty modules and crashing children - but the
memory usage is high, and more traffic leads to greater memory
usage.

Multi Thread
a thread is a process-within-a-process. Multiple threads reside
within a single process. Threading has several advantages:

Resources (memory, etc.) can be shared between threads.

Multiple threads can execute simultaneously.

Apache 1.3's case, the lack of multiple threads means that a
separate process must be used to respond to each incoming request.
This approach has an obvious advantage over Web servers that use a
single process to respond to all requests: If the Internet
Information Server (IIS) process dies on a Windows Web server, no
further requests are served until the process is restarted. If a
single Apache process dies, only the request being served by that
process is affected

The administrator must ensure that enough processes are available

to handle incoming requests without forking new ones, but not so
many that the system hits resource limits. Several directives in
the Apache configuration file accomplish this:

The MaxClients setting limits the number of Apache processes that

will be created. Typically, memory is the limitation on this
setting. If your Apache process takes up 20 MB of memory, and you
have 1000MB of free RAM, you could have up to 50 Apache processes
(1000MB/20MB = 50).

The MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers settings keep a number of

processes waiting around, to avoid the delay imposed by forking a
new process. New processes are forked continually to keep the
number of available servers between these thresholds, but
incoming HTTP requests do not have to wait for processes to be
forked because spares are available.
To account for differences between platforms, while retaining the
reliability of multiple processes, Apache 2.0 provides several
different models for controlling Apache processes and threads in
the form of Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs):
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 The prefork MPM replicates the single-threaded behavior of Apache
1.3. This is the default MPM for UNIX systems.

The worker MPM "implements a hybrid multithreaded multi-process

Web server." Several processes are started, each with a fixed
number of threads. Processes are started or stopped as necessary
to regulate the total number of threads.

The perchild MPM regulates the total number of threads by varying

the number of threads in each process. This MPM also allows
Apache processes to operate as multiple user IDs, which can be
useful for managing several virtual hosts.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mpm.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/worker.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/perf-tuning.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html
http://books.google.co.in/books?
id=cnDuw7GV4uYC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=Difference+between+
+worker+MPM+
%26+prefork+MPM&source=web&ots=4hKq5VQwf&sig=HocOBWL7lUwRrWjup1cp7s
bf4eI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA186,M1
http://tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/123/vishnu.html#MPM
http://www.howtoforge.com/configuring_apache_for_maximum_performanc
e
keepalive and keepalivetimeout :-

KeepAlive:-
This directive is taking "on"/"off" as parameter. In simple term -
whether you want to use the feature or not. For example, once you
visit a site (www.someting.com), there would be a number of
connection from your machine to the remote machine (on port 80).
Once the browse finished fetcing pages, the socket will be closed
(if KeepAlive off). If you click on a link on that page, another
connection will be initiated. Remember that opening/closing socket
will require some overhead from OS, and Apache itself (same thing
with closing the sockets).

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KeepAliveTimeout:-
KeepAliveTimeout will determin howlog a persistent connection will
be kept open.
The number of seconds Apache will wait for a subsequent request
before closing the connection. Once a request has been received,
the timeout value specified by the Timeout directive
applies.Setting KeepAliveTimeout to a high value may cause
performance problems in heavily loaded servers. The higher the
timeout, the more server processes will be kept occupied waiting on
connections with idle clients.

Apache monitoring
wtop search for it
is a tool for benchmarking your Apache HTTP server.
apachectl
is a front end to the Apache HTTP server which is designed to help
the administrator control the functioning of the Apache httpd
daemon.
apxs
is a tool for building and installing extension modules for the
Apache HTTP server.

dbmanage
is used to create and update the DBM format files used to store
usernames and passwords for basic authentication of HTTP users.

htdigest
is used to create and update the flat-files used to store
usernames, realms and passwords for digest authentication of HTTP
users.

htpasswd
is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames
and passwords for basic authentication of HTTP users.

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httpd
is the Apache HTTP server program.

instdso.sh
is a script which installs Apache DSO modules.

logresolve
is a post-processing program to resolve IP-addresses in Apache's
access log files.

rotatelogs
is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped log
file feature.

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 SendMail

Sendmail queries the database version of the file such as berkeley

DB
- /etc/mail/acesss.db
Berkeley DB should be installed to support sendmail to read the DB
files
# file /etc/mail/access*
# rpm -qa | grep -i db
Package Version/Name: db4-4.2.
- /etc/mail/helpfile
SMTP commands
e.g. telnet localhost 25
HELP
- /etc/mail/local-host-names
To know how to handle the domains which are considered to be
local
So it handles routing for
- localhost
- localhost.domain
- FQDN, in my case - postfix.altnix.com
- 192.168.10.30
- 127.0.0.1
Default MTA accepts messages for all the above
- /var/spool/mail/
- contains mailbox per user
e.g. /var/spool/mail/~username
- Traditional Unix Mbox
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 Sendmail uses macrotize language called m4, As sendmail
configuration is so complex its abstracted to macro utility using
m4
- /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
You can make changes and configure in sendmail.mc
Sendmail.mc is much easier to understand

- /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Sendmails main configuration file
- /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
dnl --> way of commenting

Sendmail is separated into two daemons:

$ ps -ax | grep -i sendmail
- Once accepts connection
e.g. sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
- Other runs the queue
e.g. sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
01:00 --> 1 minute

mails get stored in /var/spool/clientmqueue, queue runner daemon

wakes up every 1 minute
/var/spool/clientmqueue own by smmsp
smsp --> sendmail mail submission program
So users in our localsystem invokes the mail in local queu
/var/spool/clientmqueue, which gets scanned every 1 minute by

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 the queue runner
- /etc/mail/trusted-users
users that can send mail as others without a warning Able to
rewrite from section without sendmail complaining

- /etc/mail/virtusertable
Allows us to setup virtual domains
e.g.
[email protected] champu (local account)

So we have given you a brief introduction to the default

implementation of sendmail
within Redhat framework

generate a message and sendmail deliver the mail

to the user champu
# which mutt
Mutt is a great client and default it reads mbox format but also
have the ability to interact with Maildirs which is newer and more
robust way of storing mail messages.
However there is any environment variable set which mutt relies
upon
$ set | grep -i mutt
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
This environment variable should point to proper users mail box
As root you can read anyone's mailbox
$ which sendmail
$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/mta

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SENDMAIL is monolithic. It handles all messaging binding to the MTA
port
as well as local delivery
$ ps -ef | grep sendmail
You could see various instances (process) but all are tied with
same binary
By default sendmail accepts mails from local user and deliver it to
local and remote user

Configure mail server to accept internet email

1. Allowing Sendmail to accept mails from network
$ vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
search for 127.0, put dnl at the front of the line
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

2. Convert Macro based file

$ cd /etc/mail
$ make
OR
$ cd /etc/mail
$ m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
3. Restart Sendmail Service
$ service sendmail restart
4. $ su - champu
$ mail tree
Subject:
<------ data here: mail content --->
. <-- to end the mail -->
telnet localhost 25
helo altnix.com
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 mail from: <[email protected]>
rcpt to: <[email protected]>
data

Hey TEST MAIL FROM TELNET

.
quit
[root@lwqmail mail]# vi /etc/aliases
tree: champu
tree: tree,champu
$ newaliases

ACL
Allow for altnix.com
Allow for 192.168.10.0/24
Deny for dummy.org

$ vi /etc/mail/access
@altnix.com RELAY
192.168.10. RELAY
@dummy.org REJECT
$ postmap /etc/mail/access
$ service sendmail restart

Q: Mail alias
A: modify /etc/aliases, run newaliases
Q: Receive mail for altnix.com
A: modify sendmail mc as above, and add domain to /etc/mail/local-
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host-names
$ vi /etc/mail/local-host-names
altnix.com
Debugging:
mail -v root
mailq, mailq -Ac
sendmail -q
tail -f /var/log/maillog

Configure for pop3 (or imap)

A: 1) install dovecot
2) vi /etc/dovcot.conf
protocols = pop3
3) service dovecot restart
4) chkconfig dovecot on

Testing:
note: root is not permitted to login
echo "pop" | mail -s test student

telnet localhost 110

user student
pass student
stat
list
retr 1
quit

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Setup a SMTP server
- john's mails should be spooled to /var/spool/mail/john
- Your server should accept mails from remote networks [internet]
1. $ cd /etc/mail/
2. $ cp sendmail.mc sendmail.mc.org
3. $ cp sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.org
4. $ vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Find this line :

DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
add the word dnl to the beginning so it looks like this :
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

$ m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

$ chkconfig --level 35 sendmail on
$ service sendmail restart

john's mails should be spooled to /var/spool/mail/john

Nothing to do. This is done by default by sendmail*
$ netstat -antp | grep :25
127.0.0.1:25
---- > previous output before you run m4 command
0.0.0.1:25
---- > after u r m4 command output will be look like this
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Your local domain is altnix.com. Configure the send mail server for
your local LAN by following these conditions
- Relay the mail from 192.168.10.0/24 network
- If any mail coming from dummy.com domain block all mails
- user5's mail should be get by user2 and himself

1. Edit /etc/mail/local-host-names
altnix.com
2. $ vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
$ m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
$ vi /etc/mail/access
192.168.10 RELAY
@dummy.com REJECT
$ chkconfig --level 35 sendmail on
$ service sendmail restart
$ Edit /etc/dovecot.conf
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
$ chkconfig --level 35 dovecot on
$ service dovecot restart
$ vi /etc/aliases
user5: user2
$ newaliases

All mails to altnix.com should get by dhoni user

$ vi /etc/mail/virtusertable
@altnix.com dhoni
$ service sendmail restart
$ chkconfig --level 35 sendmail on

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Create a encapsulated SSL imap server \{IMAPS\}.
- Create an IMAP certificate for your hostname
- In [CN], put champu.altnix.com
- Only eric should be allowed from .altnix.com
and all from .dummy.com should be denied
OR
- User eric should be able to access mail using IMAP over SSL
- Create an IMAP certificate for your hostname
- Only eric should be allowed from .altnix.com
and all from .dummy.com should be denied
$ vi /etc/dovecot.conf
protocols pop3 pop3s imap imaps
$ cd /usr/share/ssl/certs
$ mv dovecot.pem dovecot.pem_OLD
$ make dovecot.pem
Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:IN
State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Maharashtra
Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Mumbai
Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Altnix
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Admin
Common Name: champu.altnix.com

$ cp dovecot.pem /usr/share/ssl/private
$ service dovecot restart
$ netstat -antp | grep :143
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$ netstat -antp | grep :110
$ netstat -antp | grep :993
$ netstat -antp | grep :995
$ chkconfig --level 35 dovecot on

Fighting SPAM

Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE or SPAM) can be annoying, time

consuming to delete and in some cases dangerous when they contain
viruses and worms. Fortunately there are ways you can use your mail
server to combat SPAM

Using Public SPAM Blacklists With Sendmail

There are many publicly available lists of known open mail relay
servers and spam generating mail servers on the Internet. Some are
maintained by volunteers, others are managed by public companies,
but in all cases they rely heavily on complaints from spam victims.
Some spam blacklists simply try to determine whether the e-mail is
coming from a legitimate IP address.

The IP addresses of offenders usually remain on the list for six

months to two years. In some cases, to provide additional pressure
on the spammers, the blacklists include not only the offending IP
address but also the entire subnet or network block to which it
belongs. This prevents the spammers from easily switching their
servers' IP addresses to the next available ones on their networks.
Also, if the spammer uses a public data center, it is possible that
their activities could also cause the IP addresses of legitimate e-
mailers to be black listed too. It is hoped that these legitimate
users will pressure the data center's management to evict the
spamming customer.

You can configure sendmail to use its dnsbl feature to both query
these lists and reject the mail if a match is found. Here are some
sample entries you can add to your /etc/sendmail.mc file; they
should all be on one line.

RFC-Ignorant: A valid IP address checker.

FEATURE(`dnsbl', `ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org',`"550 Mail from "
$&{client_addr} " refused. Rejected for bad WHOIS info on IP of
your SMTP server - see http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/"')
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 Easynet: An open proxy list.
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl', `"550 5.7.1
ACCESS DENIED to OPEN PROXY SERVER "$&{client_name}" by easynet.nl
DNSBL (http://proxies.blackholes.easynet.nl/errors.html)"', `')dnl
Spamcop: A spammer blacklist.
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `"450 Mail from "
$`'&{client_addr} " refused - see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml"')
Spamhaus: A spammer blacklist.
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`sbl.spamhaus.org',`Rejected - see
http://spamhaus.org/')dnl

Be sure to visit the URLs listed to learn more about the individual
services.

Spamassassin

Once sendmail receives an e-mail message, it hands the message over

to procmail, which is the application that actually places the e-
mail in user mailboxes on the mail server. You can make procmail
temporarily hand over control to another program, such as a spam
filter. The most commonly used filter is spamassassin.

spamassassin doesn't delete spam, it merely adds the word "spam" to

the beginning of the subject line of suspected spam e-mails. You
can then configure the e-mail filter rules in Outlook Express or
any other mail client to either delete the suspect message or store
it in a special Spam folder.

Downloading And Installing Spamassassin

Most RedHat and Fedora Linux software products are available in the
RPM format. When searching for the RPMs, remember that the filename
usually starts with the software package name and is followed by a
version number, as in spamassassin-2.60-2.i386.rpm. (For help
downloading, see Chapter 6, "Installing RPM Software").

Starting Spamassassin

You can use the chkconfig command to get spamassassin configured to

start at boot:

[root@bigboy tmp]# chkconfig --level 35 spamassassin on

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To start, stop, and restart spamassassin after booting:

[root@bigboy tmp]# service spamassassin start

[root@bigboy tmp]# service spamassassin stop
[root@bigboy tmp]# service spamassassin restart

Configuring procmail for spamassassin

The /etc/procmailrc file is used by procmail to determine the

procmail helper programs that should be used to filter mail. This
file isn't created by default.

spamassassin has a template you can use called

/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc. Copy the template to
the /etc directory.

[root@bigboy tmp]# cp /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-

spamc.rc /etc/procmailrc

Configuring Spamassassin

The spamassassin configuration file is named

/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. A full listing of all the options
available in the local.cf file can be found in the Linux man pages
using the following command:

[root@bigboy tmp]# man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf

You can customize this fully commented sample configuration file to

meet your needs.

###################################################################
# See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for
# details of what can be adjusted.
###################################################################

#
# These values can be overridden by editing

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# ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs.cf (see spamassassin(1) for details)
#

# How many hits before a message is considered spam. The lower the
# number the more sensitive it is.

required_hits 5.0

# Whether to change the subject of suspected spam (1=Yes, 0=No)

rewrite_subject 1

# Text to prepend to subject if rewrite_subject is used

subject_tag *****SPAM*****

# Encapsulate spam in an attachment (1=Yes, 0=No)

report_safe 1

# Use terse version of the spam report (1=Yes, 0=No)

use_terse_report 0

# Enable the Bayes system (1=Yes, 0=No)

use_bayes 1

# Enable Bayes auto-learning (1=Yes, 0=No)

auto_learn 1

# Enable or disable network checks (1=Yes, 0=No)

skip_rbl_checks 0
use_razor2 1
use_dcc 1
use_pyzor 1

# Mail using languages used in these country codes will not be

marked
# as being possibly spam in a foreign language.
# - english

ok_languages en

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# Mail using locales used in these country codes will not be marked
# as being possibly spam in a foreign language.

ok_locales en

Be sure to restart spamassassin for your changes to take effect.

Testing spamassassin

You can test the validity of your local.cf file by using the
spamassassin command with the --lint option. This will list any
syntax problems that may exist. In this example two errors were
found and corrected before the command was run again.

[root@bigboy tmp]# spamassassin -d --lint

Created user preferences file: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping:
use_terse_report 0
config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: auto_learn
1
lint: 2 issues detected. please rerun with debug enabled for more
information.
[root@bigboy tmp]# vi /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
...
...
...
[root@bigboy tmp]# spamassassin -d --lint
[root@bigboy tmp]

Startup spamassassin

The final steps are to configure spamassassin to start on booting

and then to start it.

[root@bigboy tmp]# chkconfig spamassassin on

[root@bigboy tmp]# service spamassassin start

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 SQUID

Squid is...
Offshoot of the Harvest Project
a full-featured Web/FTP Proxy and Cache server
designed to run on Unix systems
free, open-source software
the result of many contributions by unpaid (and paid) volunteers

With Squid you can...

Use less bandwidth on your connection when surfing the Web
Reduce latency [time taken to load a web page]
Protect hosts on your intranet by proxying their web traffic
Collect statistics about web traffic on your NW
Prevent uses from visiting illegal sites
Ensure that valid users only surf the net
Enhance user's privacy by filtering sensitive info from web
requests
Reduce the load on your web servers
Convert encrypted [HTTPS] requests on one side, to unencrypted
[HTTP]
requests on the other

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With Squid you CANNOT...
Proxy email [SMTP], instant messaging, or IRC

Squid supports...
proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other
proxying for SSL encrypted traffic
cache hierarchies
ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
transparent caching
WCCP (Squid v2.3 and above)
extensive sophisticated access controls
HTTP server acceleration aka surrogate mode
HTTP Interception Caching
SNMP
caching of DNS lookups
URL redirection
traffic shaping
numerous external auth modules
advanced disk storage options
1. Proxy servers
A proxy server is a machine which acts as an intermediary between
the computers of a local area network (sometimes using protocols
other than TCP/IP) and the Internet
Most of the time the proxy server is used for the web, and when it
is, it's an HTTP proxy. However, there can be proxy servers for
every application protocol (FTP, etc.).

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2. The operating principle of a proxy server
The basic operating principle of a proxy server is quite simple: It
is server which acts as a "proxy" for an application by making a
request on the Internet in its stead. This way, whenever a user
connects to the Internet using a client application configured to
use a proxy server, the application will first connect to the proxy
server and give it its request. The proxy server then connects to
the server which the client application wants to connect to and
sends that server the request. Next, the server gives its reply to
the proxy, which then finally sends it to the application client

3. Features of a proxy server

Nowadays, by using TCP/IP within local area networks, the relaying
role that the proxy server plays is handled directly by gateways
and routers. However, proxy servers are still being used, as they
have some other features.
4. Caching
Most proxies have a cache, the ability to keep pages commonly
visited by users in memory (or "in cache"), so they can provide
them as quickly as possible. Indeed, the term "cache" is used often
in computer science to refer to a temporary data storage space
(also sometimes called a "buffer.")
A proxy server with the ability to cache information is generally
called a "proxy-cache server".

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The feature, implemented on some proxy servers, is used both to
reduce Internet bandwidth use and to reduce document loading time
for users.
Nevertheless, to achieve this, the proxy must compare the data it
stores in cached memory with the remote data on a regular basis, in
order to ensure that the cached data is still valid.
5. Filtering
What's more, by using a proxy server, connections can be tracked by
creating logs for systematically recording user queries when they
request connections to the Internet
Because of this, Internet connections can be filtered, by analysing
both client requests and server replies. When filtering is done by
comparing a client's request to a list of authorised requests, this
is called whitelisting, and when it's done with a list of forbidden
sites, it's called blacklisting. Finally, analysing server replies
that comply with a list of criteria (such as keywords) is called
content filtering.
6. Authentication
As a proxy is an indispensable intermediary tool for internal
network users who want to access external resources, it can
sometimes be used to authenticate users, meaning to ask them to
identify themselves, such as with a username and password. It is
also easy to grant access to external resources only to individuals
authorised to do so, and to record each use of external resources
in log files.
This type of mechanism, when implemented, obviously raises many
issues related to individual liberties and personal rights.
7. Reverse-proxy servers
A reverse-proxy is a "backwards" proxy-cache server; it's a proxy
server that, rather than allowing internal users to access the
Internet, lets Internet users indirectly access certain internal
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The reverse-proxy server is used as an intermediary by Internet
users who want to access an internal website, by sending it
requests indirectly. With a reverse-proxy, the web server is
protected from direct outside attacks, which increases the internal
network's strength. What's more, a reverse-proxy's cache function
can lower the workload if the server it is assigned to, and for
this reason is sometimes called a server accelerator.
Finally, with perfected algorithms, the reverse-proxy can
distribute the workload by redirecting requests to other, similar
servers; this process is called load balancing.
$ squid -k
===========> parse Check if squid.conf is OK and
syntax-free
===========> check Check if SQUID is running
===========> reconfigure Re-Read squid.conf w/o stopping
[refresh]
aka service squid reload
rotate rotate the log files

shutdown Shutdown SQUID gracefully

aka service squid stop
interrupt Kill SQUID w/o waiting for trns to
finish
kill Kill SQUID mercilessly
debug Puts SQUID in debugging mode

$ squid -N Is SQUID running ?

$ squid -Nd1 Is DNS working ?
$ squid -zX Init the cache / swap dirs. Used when running
SQUID for the first time.
Done by SQUID initscript anyway [start()]
X --> To watch the progress of cache creating
SQUID should not be running when this is
done!
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$ squid -F Make SQUID refuse all requests until it
rebuilds
the storage metadata
Done by SQUID initscript anyway [start()]
$ squid -D Disables/prevents initial DNS tests
Done by SQUID initscript anyway [start()]
Already specified in /etc/sysconfig/squid
which is read by squid's initscript

$ squid -N -d1 -D Run SQUID with logging to stderr in the fg

not bg with level 1 debugging
-N -> Keep SQUID in the fg Does not read /etc/sysconfig/squid
-d1 -> Display level 1 debugging to stderr
-D -> Don't bother with DNS and die since Squid tries to do DNS
lookups for a few common domains, and dies with an error if it is
not able to resolve them thru /etc/resolv.conf See Directive #11
dns_testnames

$ squid -N Prevent SQUID from becoming a bg process

$ squid -s Enable logging to the syslogd daemon SQUID

uses

LOCAL4 syslog facility Level 0 debug msgs are logged with

priority
LOG_WARNING Level 1 debug msgs are logged with priority

LOG_NOTICE

AccessControlsarethemostimppartofyourSQUIDconfigfile.Youwillusethemtogrant
accesstoauthorizedusersandkeepoutthebadguys.

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You can use them to restrict, or prevent access to, certain
material; to control request rewriting; to route requests thru
a hierarchy; and to support different qualities of service.

What is Access Control ?

Access Control
1. Define a no of ACL Elements or ACL ELEMENTS or ACLE [These refer
to specific aspects of client requests such as IP addrs, URL
hostnames, request methods and origin server port nos]
2. Access Control Rules or RULES or ACRs [These rules appy to
particular services or ops within SQUID eg http_access rules are
applied to incoming HTTP requests]
i.e Access Control = ACL Elements + AC Rules
= ACLEs + ACRs
=========================

ACCESS CONTROL ELEMENTS - ACLEs

ACL elements are the building blocks of SQUID's access control
implementations.
Each ACL has a name, which you use when writing the rules
Eg. acl Workstations src 192.168.0.0/24
You can list multiple values for one ACL element
Eg. acl Http_ports 80 8000 8080
is the same as
acl Http_ports 80
acl Http_ports 8000
acl Http_ports 8080
Squid knows about the following types of ACLEs :
1 src : Source (client) IP addresses
2 srcdomain : Source (client) domain name
3 srcdom_regex : Source (client) domain with RE pattern matching

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4 dst : Destination (server) IP addresses [Origin Server]
5 dstdomain : Destination (server) domain name
6 dstdom_regex : Destination (server) with RE pattern matching
7 url_regex : Match any part of a requested URL
8 urlpath_regex: Match any part of a requested URL. Omit
protocol/hostname
9 time : Current Time of day, and day of week
10 port : Destination server port no [Dont confuse with #18
myport]
11 proto : Transfer protocol (HTTP,FTP,SSL)
12 method : HTTP request method (GET,PUT,HEAD,POST - FTP,
SSL)
13 browser : Allowing / Disallowing Browsers
14 maxconn : Limit on max no of connections from a single
client IP
15 arp : Ethernet (MAC) address matching. ARP-based ACLEs
16 proxy_auth : Username/Password authentication Using PAM
17 proxy_auth_regex: user authentication via external processes
18 myport : Local port no [cache] that Client connects to
19 myip : The local IP address of a client's connection
20 src_as : Source (client) Autonomous System number
21 dst_as : Destination (server) Autonomous System number
22 ident : String matching on the user's name
23 ident_regex : RE pattern matching on the user's name
24 referer_regex:
25 req_mime_type:
26 rep_mime_type:
27 snmp_community: SNMP community string matching
28 req_mime_type: RE pattern matching on the request content-type
header

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29 rep_mime_type: RE pattern matching on the reply (downloaded
content) content-type header. This is only
usable in the http_reply_access directive, not http_access.
30 external: lookup via external acl helper defined by
external_acl_type

Base Types Used by

========== =======
IP addresses: 1. src
2. dst
3. myip
4. src_as
5. dst_as

Domain Names: srcdomain

dstdomain
cache_host_domain directive
Usernames : ident
ident_regex
proxy_auth
proxy_auth_regex
REs : srcdom_regex
dstdom_regex
url_regex
urlpath_regex
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 browser
referer_regex
ident_regex
proxyauth_regex
req_mime_type
rep_mime_type
TCP Port Nos: port
myport

Restrict sites
Search for `Access Controls' and append following two lines:
acl blocksites dstdomain .gmail.com
http_access deny blocksites
Save and close the file. Restart Squid:
$ /etc/init.d/squid restart

Restrict word
Let us say you would like to deny access for anyone who browses to
a URL with the word "bar" in it. Append following ACL:
acl blockregexurl url_regex -i porn
http_access deny blockregexurl
Restricting Web Access By Time
You can create access control lists with time parameters. For
example, you can allow only business hour access from the home
network, while always restricting access to host 192.168.1.23.
Add this to the bottom of the ACL section of squid.conf
acl home_network src 192.168.1.0/24
acl business_hours time M T W H F 9:00-17:00
acl RestrictedHost src 192.168.1.23

Add this at the top of the http_access section of squid.conf

http_access deny RestrictedHost

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http_access allow home_network business_hours
Or, you can allow morning access only:

Add this to the bottom of the ACL section of squid.conf

acl mornings time 08:00-12:00

Add this at the top of the http_access section of squid.conf

http_access allow mornings

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Restrict .exe .mp3 .avi with customized error page
Now add following lines to your squid ACL section:
acl blockfiles urlpath_regex "/etc/squid/blocks.files.acl"
You want display custom error message when a file is blocked:
# Deny all blocked extension
deny_info ERR_BLOCKED_FILES blockfiles
http_access deny blockfiles
Now create /etc/squid/blocks.files.acl file:
# vi /etc/squid/blocks.files.acl
Append following text:
\.[Ee][Xx][Ee]$
\.[Aa][Vv][Ii]$
\.[Mm][Pp][Gg]$
\.[Mm][Pp][Ee][Gg]$
\.[Mm][Pp]3$
Create custom error message HTML file called ERR_BLOCKED_FILES
in /etc/squid/error/ directory or /usr/share/squid/errors/English
directory.
# vi ERR_BLOCKED_FILES
Append following content:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>ERROR: Blocked file content</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>File is blocked due to new IT policy</H1>
<p>Please contact helpdesk for more information:</p>
Phone: 555-12435 (ext 44)<br>
Email: [email protected]<br>
Caution: Do not include HTML close tags </HTML> </BODY> as it will
be closed by squid.

Save and close the file. Restart Squid:

# /etc/init.d/squid restart

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Restrict Port
Locate your ACL section and add configuration directive as
follows:
acl block_port port 1234
http_access deny block_port
http_access allow all
If you just want to skip a particular IP (192.168.1.5) try as
follows:
acl block_port port 1234
acl no_block_port_ip src 192.168.1.5
http_access deny block_port !no_block_port_ip
http_access allow all
Close and save the file.
Restart squid proxy server:
$ /etc/init.d/squid restart
And finally deny all other access to this proxy
http_access allow localhost
Squid Bandwidth Limiting (Bandwidth Throtling)

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How to Write Delay Pool Script in Squid
In this scenario we are going to creat 3 pools

128kbp
256kbps
Unlimited for Admin

Acl 128kbps 192.168.0.200/32

Acl 256kbps 192.168.0.201/32
Acl admin 192.168.0.205/32

You just creat the ACL Named net, net2, net3

delay_pools 3
delay_class 1 2
delay_access 1 deny admin
delay_access 1 deny 256kbps
delay_access 1 allow 128kbps
delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 16000/16000

delay_class 2 2
delay_access 2 deny admin
delay_access 2 allow 256kbps
delay_parameters 2 -1/-1 32000/32000

delay_class 3 2
delay_access 3 allow admin
delay_parameters 3 -1/-1 -1/-1

Vi/Vim Examples

what is VI-editor ?

While in vi you can run AIX commands without exiting the editing
session. The! creates a
shell to execute the command that follows.
1. :!ls will create a shell
2. All files in the current directory are listed. Press return to
exit the shell and return to the
vi session or...
3. While still in command mode, issue the :r snacks command
4. The contents of snacks, in this case, are read into the vi file.
By default, it will appear
after the current line.
If you need to run a series of commands without returning to vi
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executed, enter :sh. When you have run all the commands, press to
exit the shell
and return to vi.

Cursor movement
h - move left
j - move down
k - move up
l - move right
w - jump by start of words (punctuation considered words)
W - jump by words (spaces separate words)
e - jump to end of words (punctuation considered words)
E - jump to end of words (no punctuation)
b - jump backward by words (punctuation considered words)
B - jump backward by words (no punctuation)
0 - (zero) start of line
^ - first non-blank character of line
$ - end of line
G - Go To command (prefix with number - 5G goes to line 5)
Note: Prefix a cursor movement command with a number to repeat it.
For example, 4j moves down 4 lines.

Insert Mode - Inserting/Appending text

13. i - start insert mode at cursor

14. I - insert at the beginning of the line
15. a - append after the cursor
16. A - append at the end of the line
17. o - open (append) blank line below current line (no need to
press return)
18. O - open blank line above current line
19. ea - append at end of word
20. Esc - exit insert mode

Editing

r - replace a single character (does not use insert mode)

J - join line below to the current one
cc - change (replace) an entire line
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 cw - change (replace) to the end of word
c$ - change (replace) to the end of line
s - delete character at cursor and subsitute text
S - delete line at cursor and substitute text (same as cc)
xp - transpose two letters (delete and paste, technically)
u - undo
. - repeat last command

Marking text (visual mode)

v - start visual mode, mark lines, then do command (such as y-yank)

V - start Linewise visual mode
o - move to other end of marked area
Ctrl+v - start visual block mode
O - move to Other corner of block
aw - mark a word
ab - a () block (with braces)
aB - a {} block (with brackets)
ib - inner () block
iB - inner {} block
Esc - exit visual mode

Visual commands

3. > - shift right

4. < - shift left
5. y - yank (copy) marked text
6. d - delete marked text
7. ~ - switch case

Cut and Paste

yy - yank (copy) a line

2yy - yank 2 lines
yw - yank word
y$ - yank to end of line
p - put (paste) the clipboard after cursor
P - put (paste) before cursor
dd - delete (cut) a line
dw - delete (cut) the current word
x - delete (cut) current character

Exiting

:w - write (save) the file, but don't exit

:wq - write (save) and quit
:q - quit (fails if anything has changed)
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 :q! - quit and throw away changes

Search/Replace

/pattern - search for pattern

?pattern - search backward for pattern
n - repeat search in same direction
N - repeat search in opposite direction
:%s/old/new/g - replace all old with new throughout file
:%s/old/new/gc - replace all old with new throughout file with
confirmations

Working with multiple files

:e filename - Edit a file in a new buffer

:bnext (or :bn) - go to next buffer
:bprev (of :bp) - go to previous buffer
:bd - delete a buffer (close a file)
:sp filename - Open a file in a new buffer and split window
ctrl+ws - Split windows
ctrl+ww - switch between windows
ctrl+wq - Quit a window
ctrl+wv - Split windows vertically

VI Options:-
vi has many modes of operation. Some of
these will affect the way text is presented, while
others will make editing easier for novice users.
:set all display all settings
:set display settings different than the default
:set ai sets autoindent on
:set noai turns autoindent mode off
:set nu enables line numbers
:set nonu turns line numbers off
:set list displays non-printable characters
:set nolist hides non-printable characters
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 :set showmode shows the current mode of operation
:set noshowmode hides mode of operation
:set ts=4 sets tabs to 4-character jumps
:set ic ignores case sensitivity
:set noic case sensitive
Search
/word Search word from top to bottom
?word Search word from bottom to top
/jo[ha]n Search john or joan
/\< the Search the, theatre or then
/the\> Search the or breathe
/\ Search the
/\ Search all words of 4 letters
/\/ Search fred but not alfred or frederick
/fred\|joe Search fred or joe
/\ Search exactly 4 digits
/^\n\{3} Find 3 empty lines
:bufdo /searchstr/ Search in all open files
Replace
:%s/old/new/g Replace all occurences of old by new in
file
:%s/old/new/gw Replace all occurences with confirmation
:2,35s/old/new/g Replace all occurences between lines 2 and
35
:5,$s/old/new/g Replace all occurences from line 5 to EOF
:%s/^/hello/g Replace the begining of each line by hello
:%s/$/Harry/g Replace the end of each line by Harry
:%s/onward/forward/gi Replace onward by forward , case
unsensitive
:%s/ *$//g Delete all white spaces
:g/string/d Delete all lines containing string
:v/string/d Delete all lines containing which didn't
contain string
:s/Bill/Steve/ Replace the first occurence of Bill by
Steve in current line
:s/Bill/Steve/g Replace Bill by Steve in current line
:%s/Bill/Steve/g Replace Bill by Steve in all the file
:%s/\r//g Delete DOS carriage returns (^M)
:%s/\r/\r/g Transform DOS carriage returns in returns
:%s#]\+>##g Delete HTML tags but keeps text
:%s/^\(.*\)\n\1$/\1/ Delete lines which appears twice
Ctrl+a Increment number under the cursor
Ctrl+x Decrement number under cursor
ggVGg? Change text to Rot13

4. Case

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 Vu Lowercase line
VU Uppercase line
g~~ Invert case
vEU Switch word to uppercase
vE~ Modify word case
ggguG Set all text to lowercase
:set ignorecase Ignore case in searches
:set smartcase Ignore case in searches excepted if an
uppercase letter is used
:%s/\<./\u&/g Sets first letter of each word to uppercase
:%s/\<./\l&/g Sets first letter of each word to lowercase
:%s/.*/\u& Sets first letter of each line to uppercase
:%s/.*/\l& Sets first letter of each line to lowercase

Read/Write files
:1,10 w outfile Saves lines 1 to 10 in outfile
:1,10 w >> outfile Appends lines 1 to 10 to outfile
:r infile Insert the content of infile
:23r infile Insert the content of infile under line 23

File explorer
:e . Open integrated file explorer
:Sex Split window and open integrated file explorer
:browse e Graphical file explorer
:ls List buffers
:cd .. Move to parent directory
:args List files
:args *.php Open file list
:grep expression *.php Returns a list of .php files
contening expression
gf Open file name under cursor

Interact with Unix

:!pwd Execute the pwd unix command, then returns to Vi
!!pwd Execute the pwd unix command and insert output in
file
:sh Temporary returns to Unix
$exit Retourns to Vi

Alignment
:%!fmt Align all lines
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 !}fmt Align all lines at the current position
5!!fmt Align the next 5 lines

Tabs
:tabnew Creates a new tab
gt Show next tab
:tabfirst Show first tab
:tablast Show last tab
:tabm n(position) Rearrange tabs
:tabdo %s/foo/bar/g Execute a command in all tabs
:tab ball Puts all open files in tabs

Window spliting
:e filename Edit filename in current window
:split filename Split the window and open filename
ctrl-w up arrow Puts cursor in top window
ctrl-w ctrl-w Puts cursor in next window
ctrl-w_ Maximise current window
ctrl-w= Gives the same size to all windows
10 ctrl-w+ Add 10 lines to current window
:vsplit file Split window vertically
:sview file Same as :split in readonly mode
:hide Close current window
:only Close all windows, excepted current

:b 2 Open #2 in this window

Auto-completion
Ctrl+n Ctrl+p (in insert mode) Complete word
Ctrl+x Ctrl+l Complete line
:set dictionary=dict Define dict as a dictionnary
Ctrl+x Ctrl+k Complete with dictionary

8. Marks
mk Marks current position as k
k Moves cursor to mark k
dk Delete all until mark k
Abbreviations
:ab pr printf("This is a Demo Ver \n"); Define pr as
abbreviation of printf("This is a Demo Ver \n");

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 Text indent
:set autoindent Turn on auto-indent
:set smartindent Turn on intelligent auto-indent
:set shiftwidth=4 Defines 4 spaces as indent size
ctrl-t, ctrl-d Indent/un-indent in insert mode
>> Indent
<< Un-indent
Syntax highlighting
:syntax on Turn on syntax highlighting
:syntax off Turn off syntax highlighting
:set syntax=perl Force syntax highlighting

How to Exit
:q[uit] Quit Vim. This fails when changes have been made.
:q[uit]! Quit without writing.
:cq[uit] Quit always, without writing.
:wq Write the current file and exit.
:wq! Write the current file and exit always.
:wq {file} Write to {file}. Exit if not editing the last
:wq! {file} Write to {file} and exit always.
:[range]wq[!] [file] Same as above, but only write the
lines in [range].
ZZ Write current file, if modified, and exit.
ZQ Quit current file and exit (same as ":q!").
5. Editing a File

:e[dit] Edit the current file. This is useful to re-edit

the current file, when it has been changed outside
of Vim.
:e[dit]! Edit the current file always. Discard any changes
to the current buffer. This is useful if you want
to start all over again.
:e[dit] {file} Edit {file}.
:e[dit]! {file} Edit {file} always. Discard any changes to
the current buffer.
gf Edit the file whose name is under or after the cursor.
Mnemonic: "goto file".

Inserting Text

a Append text after the cursor [count] times.

A Append text at the end of the line [count] times.
i Insert text before the cursor [count] times.
I Insert text before the first non-blank in the line

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[count] times.
gI Insert text in column 1 [count] times.
o Begin a new line below the cursor and insert text, repeat
[count] times.
O Begin a new line above the cursor and insert text, repeat
[count] times.

Inserting a file

:r[ead] [name] Insert the file [name] below the cursor.

:r[ead] !{cmd} Execute {cmd} and insert its standard output
below the cursor.
Ref -

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/100-vim-commands-every-programmer-
should-know
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/terminus/435/
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/04/vim-editor-tutorial/

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