About the Book
The Definitive Linux Resource--Fully Updated and Expanded
Get full details on the powerful features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora 7 from this fully revised, one-stop guide. Linux expert Richard Petersen covers all the bases, from configuring your desktop, customizing your system, and accessing software repositories to handling files and directories, managing devices and servers, and sharing system resources.
Inside, you'll get in-depth coverage of Fedora 7's device and network autoconfiguration, IPv6 and .NET support, SE Linux, software repository installs, custom distribution spins, and system administration tools. You'll learn how to deploy sound security measures, configure automatic device detection, set up logical volumes for file management, and create your own Fedora distribution using your favorite software.
Install, use, secure, and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the new Fedora 7
Configure services using Fedora administration tools for network access, software updates, and file management (LVM and GFS2)
Manage users, services, file systems, hotplug devices, and printers
Deploy powerful desktop, office, database, graphics, multimedia, e-mail, Web, and FTP applications
Optimize security with IPsec, SE Linux, Kerberos, and Netfilter
Maintain FTP, Web, mail, DNS, proxy, print, news, and database servers
Administer system resources using GRUB, Yum, HAL, MONO, and udev
Select, download, and install a Fedora distribution spin
Auto-configure IPv6, DHCPv6, and DHCP networks
Access remote files and printers with NFS, GFS2, and SAMBA
Table of Contents:
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Introduction to Red Hat and Fedora Linux
Chapter 2: Installing Fedora
Chapter 3: Interface Basics: Login, Desktop, Help Repositories, Multimedia, and Spins
Chapter 4: System Configuration: Pirut and Pup
Chapter 5: Network Configuration
Part II: Environments
Chapter 6: GNOME
Chapter 7: The K Desktop Environment: KDE
Chapter 8: The Shell
Chapter 9: Shell Configuration
Chapter 10: Managing Linux Files and Directories
Part III: Applications
Chapter 11: Office and Database Applications
Chapter 12: Graphics Tools and Multimedia
Chapter 13: Mail and News Clients
Chapter 14: Web, FTP, and Java Clients
Chapter 15: Network Tools
Part IV: Security
Chapter 16: Encryption, Integrity Checks, and Signatures: GNU Privacy Guard
Chapter 17: Security Enhanced Linux: SELinux
Chapter 18: Internet Protocol Security: IPsec
Chapter 19: Secure Shell and Kerberos
Chapter 20: Network Firewalls: Netfilter
Part V: Red Hat and Fedora Servers
Chapter 21: Managing Services
Chapter 22: FTP Servers
Chapter 23: Web Servers: Apache
Chapter 24: Proxy Server: Squid
Chapter 25: Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, and IMAP
Chapter 26: Print, News, and Database Servers: CUPS, INN, and MySQL
Part VI: System Administration
Chapter 27: Basic System Administration
Chapter 28: Managing Users
Chapter 29: Software Management
Chapter 30: File System Management
Chapter 31: RAID and LVM
Chapter 32: Devices and Modules: udev, HAL, and MAKEDEV
Chapter 33: Kernel Administration: Virtualization
Chapter 34: Backup Management: rsync, Amanda, and dump/restore
Part VII: Network Administration
Chapter 35: Administering TCP/IP Networks
Chapter 36: Domain Name System
Chapter 37: Network Autoconfiguration: IPv6, DHCPv6, and DHCP
Chapter 38: NFS, NIS, and GFS
Chapter 39: Samba
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About the Author :
Richard Petersen has an MLIS in library and information studies and teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Linux: The Complete Reference (all four previous editions), Linux Programming: A Beginner’s Guide, and many other titles.
