A Book by Mark G. Sobell
A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, Third Edition:
Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Read a review of this book at
The Linux Tutorial
A.P. Lawrence
Preface
Brief TOC
Full TOC
Samples from chapters
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Features:
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Includes a DVD with the full Fedora Core 5
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Covers Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4
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One chapter each on setting up and using these servers/clients: Samba, NIS, 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, and setting up a LAN
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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 GNOME and KDE including how to customize each
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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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