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9780130253958

Red Hat LINUX System Administration Handbook

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  • ISBN13:

    9780130253958

  • ISBN10:

    0130253952

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
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Summary

Fully up to date with version 6 of Red Hat, this handbook gives readers everything they need to install, configure and administer Red Hay systems. Both novice and experienced system administrators can use this book to master Linux networking, file service, e-mail, security, back-ups, print sharing, Web, FTP, and much more.

Author Biography

Cary Collett, also a columnist for LinuxWorld, is a systems administrator for Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Thanks and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
1(6)
Oh No! Not Another Linux Book!
2(1)
Linux Theory
2(1)
Is it Really Free?
2(1)
Why Linux?
3(1)
Is Linux SYSV or BSD?
4(1)
Support
4(1)
What You Need
4(1)
Red Hat Recommended Settings
5(2)
Installation
7(28)
Getting Linux
8(1)
Preparing for the Install
9(3)
Performing the Install
12(7)
LILO Installation
19(1)
Linux and Other Operating Systems
20(1)
Upgrading Red Hat Linux
21(2)
Migrating from Other Distributions
23(1)
Applications CD
23(10)
Summary
33(2)
Linux Boot and Shutdown
35(18)
LILO
36(4)
Kernel Boot
40(3)
init
43(1)
What's a Runlevel?
43(2)
When Something Goes Wrong
45(2)
The Red Hat Rescue Diskette
47(1)
System Shutdown
47(2)
Keeping a PC Safe from Reboots
49(2)
Summary
51(2)
Account Administration
53(26)
Adding Users
53(3)
Deleting or Disabling Users
56(1)
Using Shadow Passwords
57(1)
Using PAM
57(5)
Linuxconf
62(14)
Interaction with Users
76(1)
Summary
77(2)
RPM
79(6)
Binary RPM Installation
81(1)
Source RPM (SRPM)
82(1)
Other RPM Utilities
82(2)
Summary
84(1)
Networking with Linux
85(48)
TCP/IP
86(10)
INETD
96(2)
Network Applications
98(13)
AppleTalk
111(9)
Network Information Services (NIS and NIS+)
120(6)
Routing with Linux
126(3)
Internet Agencies
129(3)
Summary
132(1)
Printing and Print Sharing
133(8)
Connecting Printers to Linux
133(1)
Serial vs. Parallel vs. Ethernet Printers
134(1)
Configuring a Printer
135(1)
Print Filters
136(1)
Printers on the Network!
136(2)
Managing Print Queues
138(1)
Ghostscript
139(1)
Summary
140(1)
Samba
141(18)
Setting Up an MS Windows Network
142(1)
Installing Samba
143(5)
Linux SMB Connections
148(1)
SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool)
149(6)
Installing Linux Printers on Windows
155(2)
Summary
157(2)
Email
159(18)
Using m4 Files
162(1)
You Have Mail!
162(2)
MIME
164(1)
The .forward File
164(3)
Mailing Lists
167(2)
Qmail: An Alternative to Sendmail
169(5)
Remote Email (POP and IMAP)
174(2)
Summary
176(1)
Setting Up FTP Services
177(12)
FTP under Red Hat Linux
177(1)
Configuring wu-ftpd
178(2)
Anonymous FTP
180(1)
ProFTPD
181(3)
BeroFTPD
184(2)
TFTP
186(1)
FTP Clients
186(2)
Summary
188(1)
Applications for Linux
189(12)
Office Products, Word Processors, and Editors
189(5)
Drawing, Graphics, and Image Viewing and Manipulation
194(2)
Scientific Programs
196(2)
Emulators
198(2)
Summary
200(1)
Linux Database Software
201(14)
MySQL and mSQL
202(8)
Other Native Linux DMBSs
210(3)
Summary
213(2)
Programming Languages
215(16)
C
216(1)
C++
217(1)
Perl
218(1)
Python
219(3)
Lisp, Scheme, and Guile
222(1)
Java
223(1)
Tcl/Tk
224(1)
SQL
225(1)
PHP
226(1)
Other Languages
227(3)
Summary
230(1)
Web Serving
231(22)
Web Server Software
232(2)
Hardware Issues
234(1)
Apache and ApacheSSL/Stronghold
235(10)
Logging
245(1)
Databases and Web Servers
245(1)
Setting Up a Killer Web Server
245(4)
Streaming Audio and Video
249(1)
Summary
250(3)
X Windowing System
253(36)
X Concepts
253(1)
Setting Up X Using Xconfigurator
254(1)
Setting Up X Manually
255(3)
gdm
258(1)
Using X Window Managers
258(14)
User Programs
272(2)
X Resources
274(1)
X Applications
275(9)
Using Remote Displays
284(1)
Major X Libraries
285(1)
Commercial X Resources
286(1)
Summary
287(2)
Securing Linux
289(18)
Physical Security
290(1)
Software Security
290(4)
Denial of Service Attacks
294(1)
Network Security
295(4)
Packet Filtering with Linux
299(7)
Summary
306(1)
Kernel Administration
307(16)
Customizing your Kernel
307(1)
Which Kernel?
308(1)
Getting Ready
308(1)
Adding Kernels to LILO
309(1)
Modules or Compiled in?
310(1)
Dive on in!
311(10)
Summary
321(2)
System and Network Monitoring
323(10)
Syslog
323(3)
Network Monitoring
326(5)
Network Monitoring Distributions
331(1)
Summary
332(1)
Backing Up Your Data
333(12)
tar and mt
334(3)
cpio
337(1)
dump and restore
338(1)
Commercial Backup Products
339(2)
Backup Strategies
341(1)
RAID and Disk Mirroring
342(1)
Summary
343(2)
Talking to Your Peripherals
345(18)
Scanners
345(2)
Modems
347(1)
Tape Drives
348(1)
UPS
348(2)
3D Cards
350(1)
USB Support
350(1)
Adding a New Hard Drive
350(3)
PCMCIA Devices and Laptop Machines
353(1)
ZIP and JAZ Drives
354(2)
Quick Guide to Serial Ports
356(3)
CD-ROMs and CD-R Writers
359(2)
Summary
361(2)
Connecting to the Internet
363(14)
Overview
363(1)
Software Versions
364(1)
Networking
364(2)
PPP
366(7)
IP Masquerading
373(2)
Summary
375(2)
Appendix A 377(6)
URLs to Keep Track of
377(1)
URLs Referenced in this Book
378(5)
Appendix B 383(18)
Problems Using Very Large Hard Disks
383(5)
Linux-allocated Devices
388(10)
Additional/dev Directory Entries
398(3)
Index 401

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