Linux Cookbook

Recipes for Linux. Hands-on system administration and development examples and guides for daily work.

https://lucas-six.github.io/linux-cookbook/

Linux (/ˈlinʊks/ LEEN-uuks or /ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

Quick Start

• Linux Distributions
• Setup: Ubuntu
• Basic Usage (GNU coreutils)
• I/O: File & Directory
  • File & Directory: Access & Permission & Digest (GNU coreutils)
  • Join Files: join (GNU coreutils)
  • Search Files: find
  • Search File Contents: grep
  • Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
• Date & Time: date (GNU coreutils)
• Time Zone
• Process Control
• System Information (GNU coreutils)
• Environment Variables
• Diff: diff, colordiff
• Archive & Compression: tar
• Network: wget, GNU wget2, curl
• Scripts
  • Bash Cookbook
  • Python Cookbook
• OpenSSH

General Concepts

• Data Type
• Character (字符)
• Character Encoding (字符编码)
  • ASCII
  • Unicode
  • UTF-8
  • Mojibake
• String (字符串)
• End of Line (EOL): CRLF
• Input/Output (I/O)
• Time
  • Computer Time
  • ISO 8601 Format
  • RFC 3339 Format
• Compression Algorithms (压缩算法)
• Process
• URL, URI, URN
• Endianness

System Programming (系统编程)

• Standard I/O (standard C library): File
• Standard I/O (standard C library): Directory
• UNIX I/O (system call)
• File Metadata

System Administration (系统管理)

• Virtualization (虚拟化)
• Cloud Computing (云计算)

Network

• TCP/UDP Reuse Port: SO_REUSEPORT
• TCP/UDP (Recv/Send) Buffer Size: SO_RCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF
• Zero-Copy: mmap(), sendfile(), TCP_CORK

TCP

• TCP Connect Timeout (handshaking timeout)
  • Client Side
  • Server Side
• TCP listen() Queue
• TCP Reuse Address: SO_REUSEADDR
• TCP Keep Alive: SO_KEEPALIVE, TCP_KEEPIDLE, TCP_KEEPCNT, TCP_KEEPINTVL
• TCP Nodelay (Nagle’s Algorithm): TCP_NODELAY
• TCP Transmission Timeout: SO_RCVTIMEO, SO_SNDTIMEO
• TCP Quick ACK (Disable Delayed ACKs, 禁用延迟确认)
• Fix TIME-WAIT Assassination Hazards (TIME-WAIT 暗杀), enable tcp_rfc1337
• TCP Slow Start (慢启动)
• TCP Fast Open (TFO)
• TCP Selective ACK (SACK)

TLS

• Self-Signed TLS

NGINX

• Install NGINX on Ubuntu
• NGINX Community Documentation
• NGINX Configuration: Global
• NGINX Configuration: vHost
• NGINX: TCP Fast Open
• NGINX: WebSocket Support
• NGINX: CSRF (跨站请求伪造)
• NGINX: XSS (跨站脚本攻击)
• NGINX: zstd Support
• NGINX Unit Homepage
• NGINX Product Documentation
  • NGINX Agent
  • NGINX Plus (commercial)

Container (容器)

• Docker: Basic Usage
• MongoDB (Standalone) in Docker

PostgreSQL

• PostgreSQL - Setup
• PostgreSQL in Docker
• psql : CLI
• pgadmin4: GUI (Official)

Redis

• Redis Setup
• redis-cli: CLI
• GUI
  • RedisInsight (Official)
  • Redis Desktop Manager
  • Another Redis Desktop Manager

MongoDB

• MongoDB: Overview
• Server
  • MongoDB on Ubuntu
  • MongoDB TLS
• Client
  • mongosh: CLI
  • GUI: Mongo Compass

Message Queue (消息队列)

• RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• RocketMQ
• EMQX (MQTT Broker)

Storage (存储)

• Object Storage (对象存储)
  • Cloud: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Aliyun OSS
  • On-premises: MinIO, SeaweedFS
• Block Storage (块存储)

Service Discovery

• mDNS: avahi

Performance

• Amdahl’s Law

DevOps

• Git Cookbook
• Python
  • Project: uv, ruff, mypy, pytest
  • Deploy Python Application with Docker (Python Cookbook)

Web

• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (跨站请求伪造)

HTTP

• HTTP Basic
• HTTP Connection Management
• HTTP Cookie
• HTTP Authentication: WWW-Authenticate, Authorization, Proxy-Authenticate
• HTTP Caching: Cache-Control, Expires, ETag, Vary
• HTTP Range Requests: Range

HTTP Client

• curl
• httpie
• Postman (GUI)

Recommended Readings

• LinuxCommmand.org
• The Linux Command Line, Fifth Internet Edition
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Specification Series
• Manpages - Debian
• The Linux Kernel documentation
• Book: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fifth Edition (2018)
• C Programming Language
  • Book: The C Programming Language, Second Edition (1989)
  • Book: C: A Reference Manual, Fifth Edition (2002)
  • Book: The C Standard Library (1992)
  • C FAQs
• Computer System, OS and System Development
  • Book: Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective, Third Edition (2016)
  • Paper: The UNIX Time-Sharing System. (Communications of The ACM, 1974)
  • Book: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces v1.00
  • Book: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition. (2013)
• URL
  • URL Living Standard
  • RFC 3986 - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
  • curl Home
  • cURL Cookbook
• Book: HTTP: The Definitive Guide (2002)

System Services

• Docker
  • Docker Home
  • DockerHub Home
• NGINX
  • NGINX Unit Homepage
• Redis Home
• MongoDB Documentation
• PostgreSQL Home
• MQTT Home
  • EMQ | EMQX
  • MQTT Guide
• RabbitMQ Home