Writing a book. Input appreciated!

[Rocco]

Hello everyone!

I am writing a book about Linux and some other stuff. Below is the table of contents so far. If you would like to see anything, let me know. What should I add, what should I remove? What would you like to see? What topics should I cover?

The purpose of the book is to be a brief introduction to Linux and Computer Security concepts.

Preface 3

1. Key Concepts 5

1.1 Knowing Your System 5

1.1.1 Streams 5

1.1.2 Types of Files 5

1.1.3 File System Tree 5

1.1.5 Inode Tables 7

1.1.6 Magic Numbers 7

1.1.4 Time Stamps 7

2. The Command Line 9

2.1 BASH 9

2.1.1 Types of BASH Programs 9

2.2.2 Special Characters in BASH 9

2.2.3 Determining a Program Type 9

2.2.4 BASH Tricks 10

2.2 RPM 10

2.3 Yum 10

2.4 Screen 10

2.5 Xargs 10

2.6 Regular Expressions 10

2.7 Perl 10

2.8 Find 10

3. System Installations 11

3.1 System Backups 11

3.2 System Setups 11

3.3 Virtual Machines 11

4. Networking 12

4.1 SSH 12

4.2 Rsync 12

4.3 IP-Tables and Firewalld 12

4.4 TCPDump 12

4.5 Netstat and Netcat 12

4.6 Ports/Sockets 12

4.7 OpenVPN 12

4.8 DHCP 12

5. Hacking – Basic 13

5.1 Basic Cryptography 13

5.2 System Fingerprinting 13

5.3 Signs of Malicious Activity 13

5.4 System Vulnerabilities 13

6. Hacking – Advanced 14

6.1 Advanced Cryptography (Theory) 14

6.2 Understanding TOR and Configuring TOR 14

6.3 Forensics and Anti-Forensics 14

6.4 Google Search “Hacking” 14

7. Military Systems and Conventions 15

7.1 International Alphabet 15

7.2 Military Time Zones 15

Definitions 16

Resources 19

[cooper]

Wow. It's just all over the place looking at the chapter names. Who is your target audience? What are you trying to tell to whom?

I really, REALLY hope you're planning on using more than that amount of pages for each. I mean, there's a 500+ page book on perl alone out there somewhere, I doubt you can condense it to a single paragraph on an otherwise very populated page.

You could consider a chapter on editors.

Edited April 12, 2014 by Cooper

[Rocco]

At the moment, there is no content in the book, other than the table of contents. So I am not condensing 500+ pages of Perl into 1 page. As I add more content it was span more pages obviously. I just posted the Table of Contents to give you an idea of what will be in it.

[cooper]

Fair enough. And my first question?

[Rocco]

People who are are starting out with Linux and Computer Security. It is suppose to give them a brief introduction to different concepts. Forensics, OSINT, Cryptography, etc.

[cooper]

Split it up. Into Linux is one, computer security is two.

Combining them is too big a thing.

Chapters 2,3 and 7 should be part of one, 5 can be a 'bonus' intro type thing in one. A teaser if you will. Expand upon it and add the rest to make two.

[robertrust]

I could probably benefit from reading this... Good luck!