A Book by Mark G. Sobell
A Practical Guide to Fedora and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fifth Edition
Read reviews of the previous edition of this book at
The Linux Tutorial
and
A.P. Lawrence
Preface
Brief TOC
Full TOC
Order A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fifth Edition from:
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Features:
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Includes a DVD with the full Fedora 12
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Covers Fedora 12 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5
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A new chapter on using the Perl scripting language
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One chapter each on setting up and using these servers/clients: Samba, NIS/LDAP, LDAP, NFS, DNS/BIND, Apache (httpd), OpenSSH, FTP (vsftpd), and sendmail
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A chapter on iptables with examples and a discussion of setting up different types of firewalls
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Seven chapters on sytem administration including setting up a server, DHCP, the Linux filesystem, keeping a system up-to-date using yum, setting up a LAN, and monitoring a network with Cacti
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Three chapters on bash (the Bourne Again Shell) including one chapter on shell programming (writing shell scripts)
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Coverage of the GNOME desktop and how to customize it
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See the
Preface
for more details of coverage
Links:
Read a brief biography of Mark Sobell.
View a list of Linux Links.
View answers to even-numbered exercises.
Review a list of errata for the book.
Send a note to Mark Sobell at mgs@sobell.com.
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