Search Results - "Linux kernel"

Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing : Defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers. by Chebbi, Chiheb

Table of Contents: “…Jobs, cron, and crontabSecurity models; Security controls; Access control models; Linux attack vectors; Linux enumeration with LinEnum; OS detection with Nmap; Privilege escalation; Linux privilege checker; Linux kernel exploitation; UserLand versus kernel land; System calls; Linux kernel subsystems ; Process ; Threads; Security-Enhanced Linux ; Memory models and the address spaces ; Linux kernel vulnerabilities; NULL pointer dereference; Arbitrary kernel read/write ; Case study CVE-2016-2443 Qualcomm MSM debug fs kernel arbitrary write; Memory corruption vulnerabilities.…”
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How Linux works : what every superuser should know by Ward, Brian, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The big picture -- Basic commands and directory hierarchy -- Devices -- Disks and filesystems -- How the Linux kernel boots -- How user space starts -- System configuration: logging, system time, batch jobs, and users -- A closer look at processes and resource utilization -- Understanding your network and its configuration -- Network applications and services -- Introduction to shell scripts -- Moving files across the network -- User environments -- A brief survey of the Linux desktop -- Development tools -- Introduction to compiling software from C source code -- Building on the basics.…”
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Linux All-In-One for Dummies. by Blum, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- 1 Getting Started with Linux -- Chapter 1 Introducing Linux -- What Is Linux? -- The Linux kernel -- System memory management -- Software program management -- Hardware management -- GNU utilities -- Linux user interfaces -- The X Window system -- The KDE Plasma desktop -- The GNOME desktop -- The command-line interface -- Linux Distributions: Why So Many? …”
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Mastering embedded Linux programming : harness the power of Linux to create versatile and robust embedded solutions by Simmonds, Chris

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See MIPS Run. by Sweetman, Dominic

Table of Contents: “…MIPS Specific Issues in the Linux Kernel; Chapter 16. Linux Application Code, PIC, and Libraries; Appendix A. …”
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Linux firewalls : attack detection and response with iptables, psad, and fwsnort by Rash, Michael

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Exploring BeagleBone : Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux. by Molloy, Derek

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The Linux Enterprise Cluster : build a highly available cluster with commodity hardware and free software by Kopper, Karl

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CompTIA Linux+ and LPIC Practice Tests. by Ryan, Kevin E.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 8 Essential System Services (Domain 108)Chapter 9 Networking Fundamentals (Domain 109); Chapter 10 Security (Domain 110); Part II LPIC-2; Chapter 11 Capacity Planning (Topic 200); Chapter 12 Linux Kernel (Topic 201); Chapter 13 System Startup (Topic 202); Chapter 14 Filesystems and Devices (Topic 203); Chapter 15 Advanced Storage Device Administration (Topic 204); Chapter 16 Networking Configuration (Topic 205); Chapter 17 System Maintenance (Topic 206); Chapter 18 Domain Name Server (Topic 207); Chapter 19 HTTP Services (Topic 208); Chapter 20 File Sharing (Topic 209).…”
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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition. by Ahmed, Wasim

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Cookbook. by Brasier, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Increasing the HTTP accept backlogReducing the server logging level; Finding out which JVM you are using; Using large pages in Linux; Increasing the number of file descriptors in Linux; Tuning the SOA Suite EJB timeouts; Upgrading to a newer JVM; Setting the Linux kernel swappiness to low; Using the Oracle JRockit JVM; Running your domain in the production mode; Creating a boot.properties file; Chapter 7: Data Sources and JMS; Introduction; Setting the data source pool sizes; Configuring data source testing; Configuring data source growing and shrinking.…”
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Lpic-1 : linux professional institute certification. by Smith, Roderick W.

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Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible. by Blum, Richard

Table of Contents: “…; Looking into the Linux kernel; System memory management; Software program management; Hardware management; Filesystem management; The GNU utilities; The core GNU utilities; The shell; The Linux desktop environment; The X Window system; The KDE desktop; The GNOME desktop; The Unity desktop; Other desktops; Linux Distributions; Core Linux distributions; Specialized Linux distributions; The Linux LiveCD; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting to the Shell; Reaching the Command Line.…”
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CentOS Quick Start Guide : Get up and Running with CentOS Server Administration. by Kalkhanda, Shiwang

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Linux network servers by Hunt, Craig

Table of Contents: “…In SumChapter 13: Troubleshooting; Configuring the Linux Kernel; Troubleshooting a Network Server; Checking the Network Interface; Testing the Connection; Testing Routing; Analyzing Network Protocols; Testing Services; In Sum; Appendices; Appendix A: Installing Linux; Installation Planning; Booting the Installation Program; Partitioning the Disk; Installing the Software; In Sum; Appendix B: BIND Reference; named.conf Commands; Appendix C: The m4 Macros for sendmail; Local Code; DAEMON_OPTIONS; LDAP Mail Routing; Index…”
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Mastering Proxmox - Second Edition by Ahmed, Wasim

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Professional assembly language by Blum, Richard, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Optimizing Floating-Point CalculationsSummary; Chapter 10: Working with Strings; Moving Strings; Storing and Loading Strings; Comparing Strings; Scanning Strings; Summary; Chapter 11: Using Functions; Defining Functions; Assembly Functions; Passing Data Values in C Style; Using Separate Function Files; Using Command-Line Parameters; Summary; Chapter 12: Using Linux System Calls; The Linux Kernel; System Calls; Using System Calls; Advanced System Call Return Values; Tracing System Calls; System Calls versus C Libraries; Summary; Chapter 13: Using Inline Assembly; What Is Inline Assembly?…”
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Virtual networks : pluralistic approach for the next generation of Internet

Table of Contents: “…Overall performance -- linux kernel compilation; 1.4.6. Single virtual machine tests; 1.4.7. …”
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Learning CoreOS. by S, Kingston Smiler, Agrawal, Shantanu

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Software engineering for embedded systems : methods, practical techniques, and applications

Table of Contents: “…Note continued: Available techniques -- Static and dynamic analysis -- Requirements traceability -- Static analysis-adherence to a coding standard -- Essential knots & essential cyclomatic complexity -- case study -- Understanding dynamic analysis -- The legacy from high-integrity systems -- Defining unit, module and integration tests -- Defining structural coverage analysis -- Achieving code coverage with unit test and system test in tandem -- Retaining the functionality through regression test -- Unit test and test-driven development -- Automatically generating test cases -- Setting the standard -- The terminology of standards -- The evolution of a recognized process standard -- Freedom to choose adequate standards -- Dealing with the unusual -- Working with auto-generated code -- Working with legacy code -- Tracing requirements through to object code verification (OCV) -- Implementing a test solution environment -- Pragmatic considerations -- Considering the alternatives -- Summary and conclusions -- Introduction to debugging tools -- GDB debugging -- Configure the GDB debugger -- Starting GDB -- Compiling the application -- Debugging the application -- Examining data -- Using breakpoints -- Stepping -- Changing the program -- Analyzing core dumps -- Debug agent design -- Use cases -- Debug agent overview -- Starting the application -- Context switch -- Position-independent executables -- Debug event from the application -- Multicore -- Starting the debug agent -- Debugging using JTAG -- Benefits of using JTAG -- Board bring-up using JTAG -- Comparison with the debug agent -- GDB and JTAG -- Debugging tools using Eclipse and GDB -- Linux application debug with GDB -- Linux kernel debug with KGDB -- Instrumented code -- Practical example -- Analysis tools -- Strace -- Mtrace -- Vaigrind -- Hardware capabilities -- Hardware breakpoints -- Hardware watchpoints -- Debugging tips and tricks -- Part 1: Analysis and high-level design -- Analysis -- Improving serial performance -- Understand the application -- High-level design -- Parallel decomposition -- Data dependencies -- Communication and synchronization -- Load balancing -- Choice of algorithm -- Decomposition approaches -- Summary of Part 1 -- Part 2: Implementation and low-level design -- Thread-based implementations -- Kernel scheduling -- Pthreads -- Using PPthreads -- Dealing with thread safety -- Implementing synchronizations and mutual exclusion -- Mutexes, locks, nested locks -- Mutex -- Condition variables -- Granularity -- Fine-grained -- Coarse-grained -- Approach -- Implementing task parallelism -- Creation and join -- Parallel-pipeline computation -- Divide-and-conquer scheme -- Task scheduling considerations -- Thread pooling -- Affinity scheduling -- Event-based parallel programs -- Implementing loop parallelism -- Aligning computation and locality -- Message-passing implementations -- MCAPI -- MRAPI -- MCAPI and MRAPI in multicore systems -- Playing-card recognition and sorting example -- Using a hybrid approach -- References -- Introduction -- Which safety requirements? …”
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