Damn Small Linux Book

Use DSL to Setup Firewall Project

Table of Contents
Introduction to DSL 1
Chapter 1 – Using the Live CD 5
Chapter 2 – Hardware Evaluation 7
Required Tools 7
Computer Components 8
CPU 8
Motherboard 11
Hard Drives 15
Memory 15
Video 16
Sound 17
Peripheral Connections 18
Network 20
Modems 20
Chapter 3 – Hard Drive Installation 23
Preparing for The Hard Drive Installation 23
Create Partitions 23
Verify partition types 25
Write the information to Disk 25
Typical Hard drive Install 26
Frugal Install 32
Turn Swap on 34
Create a Floppy Boot Disk 35
Install on the Hard Drive with “Poorman's” Install 35
Creating Boot Options 35
Chapter 4 – Fluxbox Window Manager 37
Desktop Icons 38
Modify or Create Your Own Icons on the Desktop 46
Change Backgrounds 51
Modify the Menu 61
Workspaces 63
Styles 63
Focus 63
Transparent XShell 63
The Slit 64
Desktop Stats 65
Chapter 5 – JWM Window Manager 69
History of JWM 69
Install 70
Configure Desktop Icons 71
Program Links 77
Modify Menu 79
Chapter 6 - History of Linux 97
History of DSL 97
The Open Source Definition 98
Linux Development 99
Linux Distributions 101
Chapter 7 - File System 107
A Linux Standard 107
The DSL Filesystem 109
Partitions 110
Swap Space 113
File System Formats 113
Filesystem on DSL 114
File Permissions 114
How to View Permissions in a Terminal 115
Links 116
Monitoring Processes 118
Runlevels 120
Mounting Drives 212
Configuring EmelFM 121
The emelFM Interface 122
Chapter 8 – Applications 139
Beaver 139
FLwriter 140
The Gimp 141
The Gradient Tool 143
Dia Tutorial 145
Setup 146
Layers 151
Preferences 154
Sound Basics 173
Audacity 175
Audacity Preferences 176
Start a New Project 180
XMMS 190
The Interface 190
Configure the Equalizer 192
Playlist 192
Setting Up Sound 194
Installing Applications With tarfiles 195
Install Applications with MyDSL 196
Chapter 9 - Networking 197
LAN - Local Area Network 197
WAN - Wide Area Network 198
Network Connections 199
Network Setup...............................................................................................205
Using Network Commands 206
Important Network Files 207
Ping 209
Setup Network with DSL Panel 210
SETTING UP YOUR MODEM 213
Firefox Browser 216
FTP – File Transfer Protocol 218
The X Window 220
VNC 221
Chapter 10 – Wireless Networking 227
Configuring a Wireless Access Connection 227
Laptop, Desktop Wireless Configuration 236
Ndiswrapper....................... .................................................................239
Chapter 11 - Secure Shell – SSH................................ ....................................243
Setting Up a SSH Server on DSL 260
Chapter 12 - Setting Up a Web Server 263
Chapter 13 - Shells 267
The Bash Shell 267
Working Directory 269
Command-Line Scan 270
Creating a Shell Script 270
Chapter 14 - Commands .................................................................................275
cd 275
cp 276
ls 276
mkdir 277
mv 277
pwd 277
rm 278
cal 278
clear 278
date 278
mount 279
umount 279
cat 280
startx 280
fsck - Recovering from a System Crash 280
ping 282
ifconfig 288
route 288
fdisk 290
Using the su command 295
Chapter 15 – vi Editor 299
Basic Commands 299
Numeric Movement 301
Retrieving Lost Files 302
Chapter 16 – Backups 303
Backup/Restore 303
Burning CDs 305
Hard Drive Backups 309
Creating a Backup With Tar 310
Chapter 17 – Printing 313
Chapter 18 - Security Evaluation 317
Password Security 318
Users and Group Security 319
File and Directory Security 320
Tool – nmap Security Scanner 321
Projects With DSL 323
Project: Create a BackUp Server 295
Project: Build a Firewall Using DSL ............................................................333
Project: Building an Embedded System .......................................................343
Project: Build a Mini-ITX Computer 349
Advantages of mini-ITX 350
Project: Creating a USB Boot Drive 361
Project: Modify Startup 371
Project: Testing DSL-N 373
Project: Remaster Cd 378
Appendix A 381
Appendix B 385
Appendix C 391