Hi, can you give more details on the book "Linux System Security: The Administrator's Guide to Open Source Security Tools"? i am thinking on taking it but not sure how relevant it is today, and i don't have any knowledge on security and so on. so can it help me understand things on this subject?
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > a slightly early Pesach cleaning resulted in a couple of old tech and > MBA books. Please see the list of the books below. > If anyone is interested to get any of these books, please let me know ASAP. > I can hand over the book(s) in Modiin or at the next Tel Aviv Perl Mongers > meeting on Wednesday. (see http://telaviv.pm.org/ ) > > Each book costs 10 NIS. > > regards > Gabor > > Tech books: > > Scott Mann, Ellen L. Mitchell: Linux System Security: The > Administrator's Guide to Open Source Security Tools > 2000, Hard cover > This is an old book. Most of the software it recommends to download, > compile and install > can already be found on the mainstream Linux distributions. > It has readable text and I think good explanations on how some of the > security tools work. > > William R. Stanek: Windows 2000 Scripting Bible. > Frankly I have no clue how this book ended up on my desk. I think at one > point > I wanted to learn more Windows automation so I can implement ideas in Perl > but > apparently I never got around to do it. > > Miriam Liskin: dBASE IV, The Pocket Reference > This is an interesting piece of history. > > Herbert Schildt: Turbo C, The Pocket Reference > > Richard Blum: Running qmail. > I guess once I've heard that qmail is best mail server on earth but I > never managed > to learn or use it. I don't think I ever will. > > > Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, George Kurtz: Hacking Exposed Network > Security Secrets and Solutions > http://www.hackingexposed.com/ > Second edition from 2001 and now the web site says they are at the 6th > edition. > I recently flipped through this book. There are ton's of very > important things to learn from it though > obviously it shows its age. Some things have changed in the last 9 > years and new versions > of operating system were release with a new set of vulnerabilities. > > > Bryan Costales with Eric Allman: Sendmail (2nd ed) > (The 3rd edition came out in 2002 > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565928398/ ) > I am using other mail MTUs > > > ======================== > > Several books from my MBA studies: > > Merle P. Martin: Analysis and design of Business Information Systems > > Ron Weber: EDP Auditing - Conceptual Foundations and Practice (2nd ed) > > Roger G. Schroeder: Operations Management - Decision Making in the > Operations Functions (3rd ed) > > > -- > Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ > Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/ > Perl Ecosystem Group http://perl-ecosystem.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > Perl@perl.org.il > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl >
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