UNIX Sysadmin Resources – FAQs, Patches, & Other Information ( A-M)
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As of May 2005, it is being hosted and maintained by Bill Bradford.
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AIX: |
AIX Documentation is an online library from IBM, containing all the AIX docs. IBM eserver pSeries and RS/6000 Support provides free technical support and resources for Unix servers. Search technical databases, publications, downloads, patches and fixes. comp.unix.aix FAQ rootvg.net is an AIX portal with news, want ads, RS/6000 and AIX documentation and support, newsgroups, news, software, humor and more. |
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Batch, Queueing & Scheduling: |
Freely available products: Commercial products: More Information: |
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CD-R & DVD-R: |
Information and FAQs: Free Premastering Utilities: CD Recording Products: |
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Coffee: |
Peet’s Coffee & Tea in the San Francisco Bay area is Stokely Consulting’s favorite coffee roaster. Coffee and Caffeine FAQ, one of the preferred fuels of sysadms. |
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DEC: |
Digital Unix home page contains FAQs, newsgroups, migration info, support. Digital Unix Reference pages (webman) Digital Electronic Services (also known as Compaq Support) for patches, mailing lists, support, and more. Ultrix FAQ DEC OSF/1 FAQ Ultrix and DEC OSF/1 AXP FAQ DEC general FAQ Ultrix Disktabs Ultrix Printcaps |
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DHCP & DDNS: | DHCP FAQ This is what you need to know about the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, in which DHCP servers assign clients an IP address as needed. Compiled by John Wobus of Syracuse University and now maintained by Ralph Droms and Ted Lemon. Droms and Lemon are the authors of the DHCP RFCs and the ISC DHCP server. They’ve written The DHCP Handbook and have great DHCP resources on their site. bootp-DH2.x (look for it in the directory and pick your version) is a free, patched CMU BOOTP-DD2.4.x server from Doug Hughes of auburn.edu. Supports DHCP, even for Win95 clients. Adds the patches from the Samba mailing list to support PCNFS and Win95 simultaneously. For SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, Linux and NetBSD servers (at least). dhcp.org is the site for the IETF DHC working group as well as users and implementors of DHCP. ISC (Internet Software Consortium) DHCP Server, Client and relay agent freely redistributable tools. Source builds on most Unix platforms. Sauron is a free (GPL) scalable system for management of DNS & DHCP services. Runs on all Unix versions, written in Perl, uses PostgreSQL, Apache, ISC BIND/DHCP. Dynamically generates complete DNS & DHCP configurations from a central SQL database. Automatic generation of DNS reverse zones, with support for smaller than C-class reverse delegations. Web browser and command line interfaces. Created at the University of Jyväskylä Computing Center in Finland. JOIN DHCP/DDNS from Join Systems, Inc. are integrated DHCP and DDNS servers for DHCP and BootP clients. They run on SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x SPARC and x86, Digital UNIX, HP-UX 10.x. Motif GUI. Evaluation copies available online. Princeton Patches to CMU dhcpd 3.3.7+PU works well on at least NetBSD and Solaris. Provides DHCP, bootp, tftp, true dynamic IP addresses, fairly nice reporting tool. Free software. Highly recommended by one of our readers. Setting up a Solaris DHCP Client and Setting up NAT on Solaris using IP Filter are very useful when connecting your Solaris system up to a Cable Modem. Written by Rich Teer. Solaris DHCP and PXE boot is a quick cookbook approach to setting up a basic Solaris DHCP/PXE server, allowing Solaris clients to boot directly from the network. |
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FTP Servers & Clients: |
Kermit FTP Client (soon to be included in C-Kermit 7.1 for Unix) offers fully scriptable FTP sessions, passive mode, command-line control, logging, security options and more. FileRunner is an X11 file manager with built-in FTP support. Implemented in Tcl/Tk and C. Runs on many Unix versions. Distributed under the GPL by Henrik Harmsen. gFTP is a free (GNU Public License) multithreaded ftp client for Unix machines running X11R6 or later. Supports queues, bookmarks, drag-and-drop, and more. Tarballs and RPMS available. Good documentation, mailing lists. By Brian Masney. NcFTPd and (free) NcFTP Client – The server is a very low-priced, high-performance package with many security features and support for virtual hosts. Free client is scriptable and can resume stopped downloads. Runs at least on Linux, BSDi, FreeBSD, Solaris/SunOS, AIX, HP-UX and IRIX. ProFTPD is a free FTP daemon for Unix and Unix-like systems. Easily configurable, fast, secure, lightweight. PureFTPd is a free, GPL, secure, production-quality FTP server based upon Troll-FTPd. Runs on Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, Tru64, Darwin, Irix and HPUX. Multiple languages supported. vsftpd is a free, GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. wu-ftpd official sources and the wu-ftpd FAQ. Beware the security holes with this package. Make sure you run the latest version. XDIR from LLNL, is a graphical FTP client for Unix. Written in C, uses OSF/Motif. Highly portable and freely available. |
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FrameMaker: |
FrameUsers.com is a large and comprehensive FrameMaker reference site. Newsletters, books, events, classifieds, consultants, updates & patches, templates, utilities. Adobe Systems, Inc. Framemaker site |
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Free Unix Versions: |
FreeBSD FreeBSD Forums contains FreeBSD Unix discussions, message boards, forums and news. The Kame Project is a joint effort by Japanese companies to create a free IPv6/IPsec protocol stack for BSD variants. They’re targeting FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and BSDI. Linux (Information on this site) Minix NetBSD OpenBSD |
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HP-UX: |
Search the HPUX-sysadm mailing list. An excellent search engine from Nexial Systems with entries from 1995 to the present. comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ at Ohio State. There is also a searchable HP-UX FAQ at the wonderful HP-UX Software Porting and Archive Centre in Utah. docs.hp.com is a great place to browse and search the documentation, whitepapers and other technical information on HP’s hardware and software, including HP-UX. HP IT Resource Center is filled with information for HP-UX Linux, OpenView, MPE/iX and other patches, technical knowledge database, licensing, and training. HP-UX System Administration mailing list: To subscribe, send “subscribe hpux-admin” to majordomo@dutchworks.nl. More info on the mailing list at our Unix System Administration Mailing Lists. HP-UX / Solaris Quick Reference Guide contains commands and actions commonly used by system administrators, grouped into related activities. Shows the commands for the same actions in HP-UX 10.x/11.x and Solaris 8. Interex, The International Association of Hewlett-Packard Computing Professionals has a worldwide membership of more than 18,000. Merijn’s HP-UX software for ITRC members provides a lot of pre-compiled freeware for HP-UX. searchHP.com is filled with news, vendors, technical information, chat, training, auctions, jobs and more. Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX software: tusc traces the system calls that a process invokes and the signals it |
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Linux: |
Linux.com, the Enterprise Linux Resource. Great site full of Linux news, HOWTOs, documentation, forums, articles and polls. Linux Information from Linux.org. This is an excellent site containing FAQs, howtos, UseNet News info, Linux Documentation Project and man pages, and FTP sites. The Linux Documentation Project lets you browse the Linux HOWTO Index and learn how to write and submit a Linux HOWTO. LinuxLinks.com is a great portal full of Linux information, books, companies, distributions, events, security, software and more. Autofs ftp site for Linux has what you need to replace Linux’ amd (an automounter). Everything Linux is a portal of Linux HOW-TOs, discussions, tools, reviews and more. Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration nicely describes how to tell Unix/Linux to make your backspace key erase to the left and the delete key erase under the cursor. Fedorazine is a community-based site of news and tips for Fedora Core users. How to configure Linux as NIS(YP) or NIS+ client or NIS server UltraLinux – Linux on SPARC NIS tools for Linux ftp site contains (at least) ypbind, yp-tools, ypserv, ypmake, yppasswd. The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ includes an audio clip of Torvalds pronouncing "Linux". |
Majordomo: |
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