Linux administration tools

CONTENTS:
   Application server administration tools
   Application development tools
   Network tools
   Scripting tools
   Mozilla
   Security Tools
   Management and administration tools
   Desktop tools

Application server administration tools
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• Tip: Try these useful BIND tools
  BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a server that implements Domain Name Service (DNS). Learn these tools: hstcvt, dnswalk, nslint, host and dig
• Expert response: Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers for Linux
  Learn more about ODBC, MySQL, and these tools: ksql, pgaccess and TkSQL
• Expert response: How to keep an eye on Linux performance
  Nigel McFarlane teaches how to monitor performance with vmstat and the other "stat" commands.

Application development tools
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• Terpstra's short list of application development tools for Linux
  Site expert John H. Terpstra lists a few of the most popular tools
• Milberg's short list of application development tools for Linux
  Site expert Ken Milberg provides a good selection of links to get you started.
• Free chapter download: Rapid application development with Mozilla: Chapter 8 -- Navigation
  In this excerpt from the book by Nigel McFarlane, you'll learn tools for simplifying navigation within an application.
• Free chapter download: Embedded Software Development with eCos, Chapter 1: An Introduction to the eCos World
  Learn the basics of the Embedded Configurable Operating System (eCos).
• Expert response: What is GNU C?
• Expert response: Cobal and Acucobal on Linux
• Free chapter download: XForms: XML powered Web forms, Chapter 1
• Expert response: Unix-to-Linux porting: Try compilers/development tools/debuggers
  Sam Greenblatt discusses the skills and tools that are similar between Linux and HP/UX.

Network tools
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• Tip: Beating problems to the punch: Network testing products
  In this tip, you can read about two different categories of network testing tools and what they do.
• Tip: Remedial network performance testing 101
  Improve network performance with mii-tool, mii-diag and ethtool.
• Interview: Linux routers, part 2: Router functionality lives in Linux kernel
  In the second part of this three-part interview, Tony Mancill talks about the building blocks of Linux routers.
• Interview: Linux routers, part 3: Expert describes optimal Linux routing setup
  Tony Mancill says that the optimal Linux network includes a well-tailored strategy, good hardware and "lots of blinky lights and little penguin stickers to put on all of the machines."

Scripting tools
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• Expert response: What is BPEL?
  Sam Greenblatt spells out BPEL.
• Free chapter download: Files, users and shell customization -- Chapter 3 of Linux Shell Scripting with Bash
  In this chapter, you can learn about the list command, bash and many of the other useful command tools in Linux.
• Free chapter download: Hour 3: A first script -- The final chapter of "Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours"
  Learn how to create, upload and run a PHP script -- and more.
• Tip: End the end-of-line hassle
  In this tip, Fred Mallett explains how you can use hex codes 0x0a, 0x0c and 0x0d to help describe the ends of a lines in a file.

Mozilla
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• Tip: Try these handy Mozilla tools on your Linux system
• Q&A: Expert outlines Mozilla benefits, part 1
• Q&A: Expert outlines Mozilla benefits, part 2
• Q&A: Rapid application development with Mozilla: Chapter 8 -- Navigation

Security Tools
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• How to be a 'security warrior,' part 1
  Security Warrior co-author Anton Chuvakin describes several useful security tools you can use to outfit your secure Linux enterprise, including Nessus, Bastille, and nmap.
• Tip: Vulnerability scanning with Nessus
  Learn how Nessus works.
• Commentary: Addition of IPsec locks down 2.6 kernel
  Site expert Ken Milberg discusses the security improvements built into the 2.6 kernel -- most importantly, IPsec and Netfilter.
• Free chapter download: Internet Protocol Security: IPsec -- Chapter 17 of Red Hat: The Complete Reference Enterprise Linux and Fedora Edition with DVD
• Administrator tip: Netstat: A small but powerful tool for administrators
  Learn more about Netstat in this user-submitted tip.
• Expert webcast: How to use open source tools to build a complete intrusion-detection system
  In this webcast, Rafeeq Ur Rehman, author of Intrusion Detection with SNORT: Advanced IDS Techniques Using SNORT, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and ACID, teaches you how to build your intrusion-detection system.
• Free chapter download: Using ACID and SnortSnarf with Snort -- Chapter 6 of Intrusion Detection with SNORT
• Products & vendors: Intrusion detection product guide

Management and administration tools
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• Tip: How to keep an eye on Linux performance
• Tip: Try integrated remote control
• Interview: OpForce server-provisioning tool
  The OpForce server-provisioning tool adds support for SuSE Linux. In this interview, Ranajit Nevatia talks about using Linux for utility computing, and some tools that make this work.
• Free chapter download: Server Management -- Chapter 20 of Red Hat: The Complete Reference Enterprise Linux and Fedora Edition
  This chapter gives a detailed description of service scripts, which are used to start up and shut down various services such as mail, Web, or FTP servers.
• Interview: How Webmin can ease DNS management
  Jamie Cameron, creator of Webmin and author of Managing Linux Systems with Webmin, offers an explanation of how Webmin can help you handle DNS changes.
• Products & vendors: Identity management/user provisioning tools and products
• Free chapter download: Chapter 3: Novell Management Tools -- Novell NetWare 6.5 Administrator's Handbook

Desktop tools
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• Smart changes in latest OpenOffice upgrade