This unique and valuable collection of tips, tools, and scripts provides clear, concise, hands-on solutions that can be applied to the challenges faced by people running the network of Linux servers from small networks to the centers of large data in a practical and popular problem-solution-discussion O'Reilly cookbook format. The Linux Cookbook covers everything you'd expect: backups, new users, and the like. But it also includes non-obvious information that is often ignored in other books the time-sinks and headaches that are a real part of the work of an administrator, such as: dealing with odd kinds of devices that Linux has historically not supported well, building multi-system boot, and handling things like video and audio. Knowledge required to install, deploy, and maintain Linux are not easy to find, and no Linux distribution gets it right. Scattered information can be found in a pile of man pages, Texinfo files, and source code comments, but the best source of information is the experts themselves who built a working knowledge of managing a Linux system. Whether you are responsible for a small Linux system, a large enterprise system, or a mixture of Linux / Windows / MacOS network, you will find valuable, to-the-point, practical recipes for dealing with Linux systems everyday.