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
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Introduction to Red Hat and Fedora
LinuxChapter 2: Installing Fedora
Chapter 3: Interface Basics: Login,
Desktop, Help Repositories, Multimedia, and SpinsChapter 4: System
Configuration: Pirut and Pup
Chapter 5: Network ConfigurationPart II:
Environments
Chapter 6: GNOME
Chapter 7: The K Desktop Environment: KDE
Chapter 8: The ShellChapter 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
ToolsPart 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
ServersChapter 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 MySQLPart VI: System Administration
Chapter 27: Basic System
AdministrationChapter 28: Managing UsersChapter 29: Software Management
Chapter 30: File System ManagementChapter 31: RAID and LVMChapter 32: Devices
and Modules: udev, HAL, and MAKEDEVChapter 33: Kernel Administration:
VirtualizationChapter 34: Backup Management: rsync, Amanda, and
dump/restorePart VII: Network AdministrationChapter 35: Administering TCP/IP
NetworksChapter 36: Domain Name SystemChapter 37: Network Autoconfiguration:
IPv6, DHCPv6, and DHCPChapter 38: NFS, NIS, and GFSChapter 39: SambaINDEX
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 Beginners Guide, and many other titles.
