A Book by Mark G. Sobell
A Practical Guide to Fedora and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sixth Edition
Read reviews of previous editions of this book at
LinuxSecurity.com,
Safari Books,
The Linux Tutorial,
and
A.P. Lawrence
Preface
Brief TOC
Full TOC
Order A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sixth Edition from:
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Features:
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Includes a DVD with the full Fedora 15
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Covers Fedora 15 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6
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New information on the systemd init daemon
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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 command line and key system GUI tools
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Coverage of automating administration tasks using Perl
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Complete coverage of how to use both su and sudo to gain root privileges
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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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