Linux Appliance Design

Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................xv
Introduction .................................................................................................................xvii
Chapter 1: Appliance Architecture ....................................................................................1
Chapter 2: Managing Daemons........................................................................................7
Chapter 3: Using Run-Time Access ..................................................................................19
Chapter 4: Building and Securing Daemons .....................................................................43
Chapter 5: The Laddie Alarm System: A Sample Appliance................................................61
Chapter 6: Logging .......................................................................................................77
Chapter 7: Laddie Event Handling...................................................................................91
Chapter 8: Designing a Web Interface ..........................................................................105
Chapter 9: Designing a Command Line Interface ............................................................135
Chapter 10: Building a Front Panel Interface ..................................................................147
Chapter 11: Designing a Framebuffer Interface...............................................................169
Chapter 12: Infrared Remote Control.............................................................................197
Chapter 13: Hands-on Introduction to SNMP..................................................................223

Chapter 14: Designing an SNMP MIB ...........................................................................243
Chapter 15: Implementing Your SNMP MIB....................................................................261
Appendix A: RTA Reference .........................................................................................289
Appendix B: Review of SNMP ......................................................................................309
Appendix C: Installing a Framebuffer Device Driver.........................................................325
Appendix D: A DB-to-File Utility.....................................................................................331
Appendix E: The Laddie Appliance Bootable CD ............................................................337
Index .........................................................................................................................345