Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Background and basic training -- 1. An intro duction to system administration -- 2. Operating system terminology, co ncepts, and history -- 3. Fundamental system administration tools -- Pa rt II. System installation and configuration tasks -- 4. Booting and ha lting -- 5. Installing an operating system -- 6. Managing system softwa re -- 7. System devices -- 8. Disks and file systems -- 9. Serial devic es -- Part III. System management tasks -- 10. User accounts -- 11. Man aging local system security -- 12. Disk and file system maintenance -- 13. System backups and disaster recovery -- 14. Managing printers -- Pa rt IV. Network configuration tasks -- 15. Overview of networking -- 16. Network configuration and management -- 17. Network security -- Part V . Network service tasks -- 18. Network file sharing -- 19. Automating f ile sharing -- 20. Network name services -- 21. Web services -- 22. Ele ctronic mail -- Part VI. Advanced system management tasks -- 23. Automa ting administrative tasks -- 24. Performance analysis.