| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| Introduction | p. xxv |
| Introduction | |
| Introduction to Red Hat Linux | p. 3 |
| Red Hat Linux | p. 5 |
| Operating Systems and Linux | p. 7 |
| History of Linux and UNIX | p. 8 |
| Linux Overview | p. 11 |
| Desktops | p. 12 |
| Open Source Software | p. 14 |
| Linux Software | p. 15 |
| Online Information Sources | p. 19 |
| Documentation | p. 21 |
| Red Hat Commercial Enhancements | p. 23 |
| Other Linux Distributions | p. 23 |
| Installing Red Hat Linux | p. 27 |
| Hardware, Software, Information Requirements | p. 29 |
| Opening Disk Space for Linux Partitions for Shared Hard Disks | p. 34 |
| Creating the Red Hat Boot Disks | p. 36 |
| Installing Linux | p. 37 |
| Finishing Installation | p. 48 |
| Interface Basics | p. 51 |
| User Accounts | p. 52 |
| Accessing Your Linux System | p. 53 |
| Gnome Desktop | p. 58 |
| The K Desktop | p. 60 |
| Command Line Interface | p. 62 |
| Help | p. 63 |
| Online Documentation | p. 65 |
| Basic Setup | |
| System Configuration | p. 69 |
| GUI Administration Utilities: Linuxconf and Webmin | p. 70 |
| Configuring Users | p. 73 |
| Managing File Systems and CD-ROMs | p. 74 |
| Printer Configuration | p. 77 |
| Configuration Using Red Hat Setup | p. 80 |
| Updating Red Hat with the Red Hat Network | p. 83 |
| Installing Software Packages | p. 87 |
| Network Configuration | p. 95 |
| LAN | p. 97 |
| Red Hat Network Configuration | p. 98 |
| Network Configuration with Linuxconf and Webmin | p. 102 |
| DSL and ISDN | p. 103 |
| The Red Hat PPP Dialer | p. 105 |
| Command Line PPP Access: wvdial | p. 110 |
| Modem Setup | p. 113 |
| Security Configuration | p. 115 |
| GNU Privacy Guard: Encryption and Authentication | p. 117 |
| Intrusion Detection: Tripwire | p. 130 |
| Setting Up a Simple Firewall with lokkit | p. 139 |
| Proxies (Squid) | p. 140 |
| Secure Shell (SSH) | p. 142 |
| Setting Up a Local Area Network with Red Hat | p. 145 |
| Physical Configuration | p. 147 |
| Web Access with Squid | p. 148 |
| DNS Setup | p. 149 |
| Setting Up Your Firewall | p. 165 |
| Setting Up E-mail Services | p. 166 |
| Internet Access by Local Hosts | p. 168 |
| Using Remote Printers | p. 169 |
| Setting Up a Web Server | p. 172 |
| Red Hat Desktop Workstation | |
| Gnome | p. 175 |
| GTK+ | p. 177 |
| The Gnome Interface | p. 177 |
| The Gnome Desktop | p. 181 |
| Window Managers | p. 184 |
| The Gnome (1.4) File Manager: Nautilus | p. 185 |
| The Gnome Panel | p. 194 |
| Gnome Applets | p. 199 |
| Gnome Configuration | p. 202 |
| Gnome Directories and Files | p. 204 |
| Sawfish Window Manager | p. 206 |
| Gnome Themes | p. 207 |
| The Ximian Gnome | p. 207 |
| Updating Gnome | p. 209 |
| The K Desktop Environment: KDE | p. 211 |
| Qt and Harmony | p. 214 |
| KDE Desktop | p. 214 |
| The KDE Help System | p. 224 |
| Applications | p. 225 |
| Mounting CD-ROMs and Floppy Disks from the Desktop | p. 228 |
| KDE File Manager and Internet Client: Konqueror | p. 229 |
| KDE Configuration: KDE Control Center | p. 237 |
| System Configuration Using KDE | p. 241 |
| Updating KDE | p. 242 |
| Window Managers | p. 243 |
| Window, File, and Program Managers | p. 245 |
| Window Managers | p. 246 |
| The Shell | p. 249 |
| The Command Line | p. 250 |
| Wildcards and Filename Arguments: *, ?, [] | p. 253 |
| Standard Input/Output and Redirection | p. 257 |
| Pipes: I | p. 263 |
| Redirecting and Piping the Standard Error: ]and,2] | p. 265 |
| Shell Variables | p. 266 |
| Shell Scripts: User-Defined Commands | p. 268 |
| Jobs: Background, Kills, and Interruptions | p. 270 |
| Filters and Regular Expressions | p. 273 |
| Searching Files: grep and fgrep | p. 280 |
| Regular Expressions | p. 282 |
| The Linux File Structure | p. 289 |
| Linux Files | p. 290 |
| The File Structure | p. 293 |
| Listing, Displaying, and Printing Files: ls, cat, more, and lpr | p. 297 |
| Managing Directories: mkdir, rmdir, ls, cd, and pwd | p. 301 |
| File and Directory Operations: find, cp, mv, rm, and ln | p. 306 |
| File and Directory Permissions: chmod | p. 320 |
| Shell Configuration | p. 329 |
| Command and Filename Completion | p. 330 |
| Command Line Editing | p. 331 |
| History | p. 333 |
| Aliases | p. 336 |
| Controlling Shell Operations | p. 338 |
| Environment Variables and Subshells: export | p. 340 |
| Configuring Your Shell with Special Shell Variables | p. 341 |
| Office Applications | p. 355 |
| Accessibility to Microsoft Office | p. 356 |
| KOffice | p. 357 |
| Gnome Office, OpenOffice, and Ximian | p. 363 |
| WordPerfect | p. 368 |
| StarOffice | p. 369 |
| Database Management Systems, Graphics Tools, and Multimedia | p. 373 |
| Database Management Systems | p. 374 |
| Graphics Tools | p. 379 |
| Multimedia | p. 381 |
| Editors | p. 385 |
| Gnome Editor: gedit | p. 386 |
| K Desktop Editors: KEdit, Kate, Kjots, and KWord | p. 388 |
| Red Hat Network Workstation | |
| Mail Clients | p. 393 |
| Local and Internet Addresses | p. 395 |
| Signature Files: .signature | p. 395 |
| Mime | p. 396 |
| The K Desktop Mail Client: KMail | p. 397 |
| Gnome Mail Clients: Balsa, Evolution, Gmail, Mahogany, and Others | p. 400 |
| X Window Mail Clients: Mozilla, Netscape, and exmh | p. 405 |
| Screen-Based Mail Clients | p. 409 |
| Command Line Mail Clients | p. 412 |
| Notifications of Received Mail | p. 420 |
| Accessing Mail on Remote POP Mail Servers | p. 421 |
| Usenet and Newsreaders | p. 427 |
| Usenet News | p. 428 |
| FTP Clients | p. 433 |
| Internet Addresses | p. 435 |
| Network File Transfer: FTP | p. 436 |
| Online FTP Resources | p. 437 |
| Web Browser-Based FTP: Netscape | p. 437 |
| The K Desktop File Manager: Konqueror | p. 437 |
| Gnome FTP: GNU Midnight Commander, gFTP, Nautilus | p. 438 |
| NcFTP | p. 442 |
| ftp | p. 450 |
| The World Wide Web and Java | p. 457 |
| URL Addresses | p. 458 |
| Web Pages | p. 461 |
| Web Browsers | p. 462 |
| Java for Linux: Blackdown | p. 468 |
| Web Search Utilities | p. 471 |
| Creating Your Own Web Site | p. 471 |
| Network Tools | p. 475 |
| Network Information: ping, finger, and host | p. 476 |
| Red Hat Servers | |
| Server Management | p. 483 |
| Starting Servers: Standalone and xinetd | p. 485 |
| Service Management Tools: ntsysv and serviceconf, chkconfig, and System V Init | p. 487 |
| SysV Init: init.d Scripts | p. 494 |
| Extended Internet Services Daemon (xinetd) | p. 500 |
| FTP Servers | p. 511 |
| FTP Daemons | p. 512 |
| Anonymous FTP: anon | p. 514 |
| The FTP User Account: Anonymous | p. 514 |
| FTP Server Tools | p. 518 |
| The Washington University FTP daemon: wu-ftpd | p. 519 |
| Professional FTP Daemon: ProFTPD | p. 530 |
| Red Hat Web Servers: Apache and Tux | p. 545 |
| Tux | p. 546 |
| Apache Web Server | p. 547 |
| Java: Jakarta and Apache-Java | p. 548 |
| Apache Configuration and Directives | p. 554 |
| Virtual Hosting on Apache | p. 566 |
| Server-Side Includes | p. 572 |
| Apache GUI Configuration Tools | p. 574 |
| Web Server Security--SSL | p. 578 |
| Domain Name Service | p. 583 |
| Local Area Network Addressing | p. 586 |
| BIND | p. 588 |
| Domain Name Service Configuration | p. 590 |
| named.conf | p. 592 |
| Resource Records | p. 598 |
| Zone Files | p. 604 |
| Subdomains and Slaves | p. 610 |
| IP Virtual Domains | p. 612 |
| Cache File | p. 614 |
| DNS Security: Access Control Lists and DNSSEC | p. 614 |
| Split DNS: Views | p. 618 |
| Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, and IMAP | p. 621 |
| Received Mail: MX Records | p. 623 |
| Sendmail | p. 624 |
| POP Servers | p. 650 |
| IMAP | p. 653 |
| News, Proxy, and Search Servers | p. 655 |
| News Servers: INN | p. 656 |
| Leafnode News Server | p. 658 |
| Squid Proxy-Caching Server | p. 660 |
| Dig Server | p. 667 |
| System Administration | |
| Basic System Administration | p. 671 |
| System Management: Superuser | p. 672 |
| System Configuration | p. 674 |
| System Directories and Files | p. 682 |
| Performance Analysis Tools and Processes | p. 692 |
| Configuration Tools and Boot Management | p. 695 |
| Red Hat Text Mode Setup Utility | p. 696 |
| LILO | p. 700 |
| Linuxconf and Webmin | p. 707 |
| Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) | p. 707 |
| Managing Users | p. 711 |
| The Password Files | p. 713 |
| Managing User Environments: /etc/skel and /etc/login.defs | p. 714 |
| Login Access | p. 716 |
| Controlling Access to Directories and Files | p. 716 |
| Red Hat User Manger | p. 718 |
| Managing Users with Webmin | p. 719 |
| Managing Users with kuser | p. 720 |
| Adding and Removing Users with useradd, usermod, and userdel | p. 721 |
| Managing Groups | p. 723 |
| Disk Quotas | p. 730 |
| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | p. 732 |
| Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) | p. 734 |
| Software Management | p. 737 |
| Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) | p. 741 |
| Installing Software from Red Hat RPM Source Code Files: SRPMS | p. 755 |
| Installing Software from Compressed Archives: .tar.gz | p. 756 |
| Packaging Your Software: Building RPMs | p. 762 |
| RPM Build Operation | p. 767 |
| File System Administration | p. 769 |
| Local File Systems | p. 770 |
| Installing IDE CD-R and CD-RW Devices | p. 785 |
| Formatting File Systems: mkfs, mke2fs, mkswap, and fdisk | p. 798 |
| Configuring RAID devices | p. 801 |
| Backup and Restore File Systems: dump and restore | p. 807 |
| The mtools Utilities: msdos | p. 813 |
| Archive Files and Devices: tar | p. 816 |
| File Compression: gzip, bzip2, and zip | p. 822 |
| Journaling | p. 826 |
| Devices and Printers | p. 827 |
| Device Files | p. 828 |
| Device Information: / proc | p. 830 |
| Installing and Managing Printers: LPRng | p. 831 |
| Installing and Managing Printers with CUPS | p. 844 |
| Installing and Managing Terminals and Modems | p. 851 |
| Input Devices | p. 853 |
| Installing Sound, Network, and Other Cards | p. 853 |
| Multimedia Devices: Sound, Video, and DVD | p. 854 |
| Modules | p. 857 |
| Kernel Administration | p. 863 |
| Precautionary Steps for Modifying Kernels | p. 865 |
| Installing Distribution Kernel Binaries and Source: RPM | p. 867 |
| Compiling the Kernel from Source Code | p. 869 |
| Compiling and Installing the Kernel | p. 879 |
| LILO Configurations | p. 882 |
| Module RAM Disks | p. 884 |
| The X Window System and XFree86 | p. 887 |
| The X Protocol | p. 889 |
| XFree86 | p. 889 |
| XFree86 Configuration: /etc/X11/XF86Config | p. 893 |
| X Window System Command Line Arguments | p. 901 |
| X Window System Commands and Configuration Files | p. 903 |
| X Window System Startup Methods: startx and Display Managers | p. 910 |
| Starting Desktops and Window Managers | p. 919 |
| Compiling X Window System Applications | p. 924 |
| Network Administration | |
| Configuring Network Connections | p. 927 |
| Network Startup Script | p. 928 |
| Hardware Specifications | p. 929 |
| Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) | p. 929 |
| NFS, NIS, and AppleTalk | p. 935 |
| Network File Systems: NFS and /etc / exports | p. 936 |
| Network Information Service: NIS | p. 947 |
| Netatalk: AppleTalk | p. 955 |
| Samba | p. 959 |
| Setting Up Samba | p. 962 |
| Passwords | p. 963 |
| Samba Configuration: smb.conf | p. 967 |
| SWAT and smb.conf | p. 968 |
| Testing the Samba Configuration | p. 984 |
| Domain Logons | p. 985 |
| Accessing Samba Services with Clients | p. 986 |
| Administering TCP/IP Networks | p. 1001 |
| IPv4 and IPv6 | p. 1005 |
| TCP/IP Network Addresses | p. 1006 |
| TCP/IP Configuration Files | p. 1015 |
| Domain Name Service (DNS) | p. 1019 |
| Network Interfaces and Routes: ifconfig and route | p. 1024 |
| Monitoring Your Network: ping and netstat | p. 1031 |
| IP Aliasing | p. 1032 |
| Network Security: Firewalls, Encryption, and Authentication | p. 1035 |
| Firewalls: iptables and NAT | p. 1037 |
| IP Masquerading | p. 1062 |
| IP Chains (Kernel 2.2) | p. 1065 |
| Secure Shell (SSH) | p. 1069 |
| Index | p. 1089 |
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