Red Hat: The Complete Reference Enterprise Linux and Fedora Edition (w/DVD)

by Petersen, Richard; Haddad, Ibrahim

• ISBN13: 9780072230758
• ISBN10: 0072230754
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-17
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

Learn how to install, configure, and manage Red Hat Linux X, the latest version of Red Hat's operating system.The book is clearly organized: each section focuses on the different ways Red Hat presents its distribution: as a desktop workstation, network workstation, server, and development platform.

Author Biography

Richard Petersen (Berkeley, CA) has an MLIS in library and information studies and teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley.

Ibrahim Haddad (Quebec, Canada) is a researcher at the Ericsson Corporate Unit of Research (Open Systems Lab) in Montréal, Canada, where he is involved with the system architecture of third generation wireless IP networks.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started

1: Introduction to Red Hat Linux

2: Installing Red Hat and Fedora Core Linux

3: Interface Basics

4: Red Hat System Configuration

5: Red Hat Network Configuration

Part II: Environments

6: GNOME

7: The K Desktop Environment: KDE

8: The Shell

9: Shell Configuration

10: Managing Linux Files, Directories, and Archives

Part III: Applications

11: Office and Database Applications

12: Graphics Tools and Multimedia

13: Mail and News Clients

14: Web, FTP, and Java Clients

15: Network Tools

Part IV: Security

16: Encryption, Integrity Checks, and Signatures: GNU Privacy Guard

17: Internet Protocol Security: IPsec

18: Secure Shell and Kerberos

19: Network Firewalls: Netfilter

Part V: Red Hat Servers

20: Server Management

21: FTP Servers

22: Web Servers: Apache

23: Proxy Servers: Squid

24: Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, and IMAP

25: Print Servers

26: News and Search Servers

Part VI: System Administration

27: Basic System Administration

28: Managing Users

29: Software Management

30: File System Management

31: RAID and LVM

32: Devices and Modules

33: Kernel Administration

Part VII: Network Administration

34: Domain Name System

35: DHCP Server

36: NFS and NIS

37: Samba

38: Administering TCP/IP Networks

A: About the DVD-ROM