Paperback: 942 pages
Publisher: Sybex October 19, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0782143474
ISBN-13: 978-0782143478
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.3 x 2.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
Book Description
Your Complete Guide to the World's Leading Linux Enterprise Distribution
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is emerging as the corporate Linux standard. One of the first books to focus on this robust product, Mastering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 gives you the practical information you need to install, configure, and network Linux on a large number of computers. For experienced administrators, this book uniquely features detailed coverage of Apache, TUX, Samba, NFS, vsFTP, Squid, SSH, DNS, DHCP, iptables, CUPS, sendmail, Postfix, NIS, LDAP, MySQL, system administration command line and GUI tools and utilities for each phase of the management process. It also helps you configure the GUI for enterprise workstations. Topics include: - Installing Linux on a standalone system, over a network, and automatically on multiple computers
- Navigating the command line interface
- Administering users and groups securely
- Managing packages with the RPM GUI tool
- Configuring and troubleshooting the boot process
- Upgrading and recompiling kernels
- Backing up your system with RAID
- Understanding basic TCP/IP networking
- Managing Linux on your LAN
- Securing Linux firewalls
- Ensuring secure remote access
- Installing, configuring, and testing DNS, DHCP, CUPS, sendmail and Postfix mail servers
- Configuring and troubleshooting FTP, NFS, Samba, Apache, TUX, and Squid
- Effectively using Linux authentication services--NIS and LDAP
- Using Red Hat GUI administrative tools appropriately
- Setting up MySQL for databases
- Managing X servers and X clients
- Working with GNOME and KDE
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Your Complete Guide to the World’s Leading Linux Enterprise Distribution
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is emerging as the corporate Linux standard. One of the first books to focus on this robust product, Mastering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 gives you the practical information you need to install, configure, and network Linux on a large number of computers. For experienced administrators, this book uniquely features detailed coverage of Apache, TUX, Samba, NFS, vsFTP, Squid, SSH, DNS, DHCP, iptables, CUPS, sendmail, Postfix, NIS, LDAP, MySQL, system administration command line and GUI tools and utilities for each phase of the management process. It also helps you configure the GUI for enterprise workstations. Topics include: - Installing Linux on a standalone system, over a network, and automatically on multiple computers
- Navigating the command line interface
- Administering users and groups securely
- Managing packages with the RPM GUI tool
- Configuring and troubleshooting the boot process
- Upgrading and recompiling kernels
- Backing up your system with RAID
- Understanding basic TCP/IP networking
- Managing Linux on your LAN
- Securing Linux firewalls
- Ensuring secure remote access
- Installing, configuring, and testing DNS, DHCP, CUPS, sendmail and Postfix mail servers
- Configuring and troubleshooting FTP, NFS, Samba, Apache, TUX, and Squid
- Effectively using Linux authentication services--NIS and LDAP
- Using Red Hat GUI administrative tools appropriately
- Setting up MySQL for databases
- Managing X servers and X clients
- Working with GNOME and KDE
Customer Reviews & Comments
This may be more of a reference book than a text on its subject. The breadth of topics is commendable and certainly encompasses much of what you as a sysadmin will probably want to do on a linux machine or cluster. Jang's choice of the Red Hat linux is good; the most common implementation of linux around. On such a system, the first thing anyone sees after logging in is the desktop. He describes the two choices evenhandedly, KDE and Gnome. Functionally, there is little truly different between them. So it may just come down to your personal preferences as to which you adopt. He goes carefully into describing network security. Pointing out that linux and open source gives you very powerful free tools to defend against intrusion.
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