| Acknowledgments | p. xxvii |
| Introduction | p. xxix |
| Getting Started | |
| Introduction to Red Hat Linux | p. 3 |
| Red Hat and Fedora Linux | p. 5 |
| Red Hat Linux Fedora Core | p. 8 |
| Operating Systems and Linux | p. 10 |
| History of Linux and Unix | p. 10 |
| Linux Overview | p. 12 |
| Open Source Software | p. 13 |
| Linux Software | p. 14 |
| Online Information Sources | p. 18 |
| Documentation | p. 19 |
| Installing Red Hat and Fedora Core Linux | p. 21 |
| Hardware, Software, and Information Requirements | p. 22 |
| Creating the Boot Disks | p. 25 |
| Installing Linux | p. 27 |
| Finishing Installation | p. 33 |
| Interface Basics | p. 37 |
| User Accounts | p. 37 |
| Accessing Your Linux System | p. 38 |
| Bluecurve: The GNOME and KDE Desktops | p. 41 |
| Command Line Interface | p. 43 |
| Help | p. 44 |
| Red Hat System Configuration | p. 47 |
| Red Hat Administrative Tools | p. 47 |
| Configuring Users | p. 48 |
| Printer Configuration | p. 50 |
| X Window System Configuration: redhat-config-xfree86 | p. 52 |
| Updating Red Hat and Fedora Linux with RHN, Yum and APT | p. 52 |
| Installing Software Packages | p. 54 |
| Security Configuration | p. 60 |
| Unsupported Drivers | p. 63 |
| Bluetooth | p. 64 |
| Red Hat Network Configuration | p. 67 |
| Network Information: Dynamic and Static | p. 68 |
| Network Configuration with Red Hat Network Tools | p. 69 |
| Command Line PPP Access: wvdial | p. 76 |
| Wireless Tools | p. 78 |
| Setting Up Your Firewall: redhat-config-securitylevel | p. 81 |
| Configuring a Local Area Network | p. 82 |
| Environments | |
| GNOME | p. 95 |
| GNOME Enhancements | p. 96 |
| GTK+ | p. 97 |
| The GNOME Interface | p. 97 |
| The GNOME Desktop | p. 100 |
| The GNOME File Manager: Nautilus | p. 102 |
| The GNOME Panel | p. 108 |
| GNOME Applets | p. 111 |
| GNOME Configuration | p. 112 |
| GNOME Directories and Files | p. 113 |
| The K Desktop Environment: KDE | p. 115 |
| Qt Library | p. 117 |
| KDE Desktop | p. 117 |
| The KDE Help Center | p. 124 |
| Applications | p. 124 |
| Mounting CD-ROMs and Floppy Disks from the Desktop | p. 125 |
| KDE File Manager and Internet Client: Konqueror | p. 126 |
| KDE Configuration: KDE Control Center | p. 130 |
| The Shell | p. 135 |
| The Command Line | p. 135 |
| History | p. 137 |
| Filename Expansion: *,?,[] | p. 141 |
| Standard Input/Output and Redirection | p. 145 |
| Pipes: [vertical bar] | p. 148 |
| Redirecting and Piping the Standard Error: [greater than sign]&, 2[greater than sign] | p. 149 |
| Jobs: Background, Kills, and Interruptions | p. 150 |
| Shell Variables | p. 153 |
| Shell Scripts: User-Defined Commands | p. 155 |
| Control Structures | p. 156 |
| Filters and Regular Expressions | p. 161 |
| Shell Configuration | p. 165 |
| Aliases | p. 165 |
| Controlling Shell Operations | p. 167 |
| Environment Variables and Subshells: export | p. 169 |
| Configuring Your Shell with Shell System Variables | p. 169 |
| Managing Linux Files, Directories, and Archives | p. 181 |
| Linux Files | p. 182 |
| The File Structure | p. 184 |
| Listing, Displaying, and Printing Files: ls, cat, more, less, and lpr | p. 187 |
| Managing Directories: mkdir, rmdir, ls, cd, and pwd | p. 189 |
| File and Directory Operations: find, cp, mv, rm, and ln | p. 192 |
| The mtools Utilities: msdos | p. 199 |
| Archiving and Compressing Files | p. 202 |
| Archiving and Compressing Files with File Roller | p. 202 |
| Applications | |
| Office and Database Applications | p. 213 |
| Accessibility to Microsoft Office | p. 214 |
| OpenOffice | p. 214 |
| KOffice | p. 216 |
| GNOME Office and Ximian | p. 217 |
| Document Viewers (PostScript, PDF, and DVI) | p. 219 |
| Database Management Systems | p. 220 |
| Editors | p. 223 |
| Graphics Tools and Multimedia | p. 231 |
| Graphics Tools | p. 232 |
| Multimedia | p. 234 |
| Mail and News Clients | p. 237 |
| Mail Clients | p. 237 |
| Usenet News | p. 247 |
| Web, FTP, and Java Clients | p. 253 |
| Web Clients | p. 254 |
| Java for Linux: Blackdown | p. 260 |
| FTP Clients | p. 262 |
| Network Tools | p. 277 |
| Network Information: ping, finger, traceroute, and host | p. 277 |
| Network Talk and Messenger Clients: ICQ, IRC, AIM, and Talk | p. 280 |
| Telnet | p. 282 |
| RSH, Kerberos, and SSH Remote Access Commands | p. 283 |
| Security | |
| Encryption, Integrity Checks, and Signatures: GNU Privacy Guard | p. 289 |
| Public Key Encryption, Integrity Checks, and Digital Signatures | p. 289 |
| GNU Privacy Guard | p. 291 |
| Checking Software Package Digital Signatures | p. 298 |
| Intrusion Detection: Tripwire | p. 301 |
| Internet Protocol Security: IPsec | p. 303 |
| IPsec Protocols | p. 303 |
| IPsec Modes | p. 304 |
| IPsec Security Databases | p. 304 |
| Configuring IPsec with redhat-config-network | p. 305 |
| Configuring Connections with setkey | p. 306 |
| Configuring IPsec with racoon: IKE | p. 309 |
| IPsec Tunnel Mode: Virtual Private Networks | p. 310 |
| Crypto IP Encapsulation for Virtual Private Networks | p. 312 |
| Secure Shell and Kerberos | p. 313 |
| The Secure Shell: OpenSSH | p. 313 |
| Kerberos | p. 323 |
| Network Firewalls: Netfilter | p. 327 |
| Firewalls: iptables and NAT | p. 328 |
| Packet Filtering | p. 329 |
| Network Address Translation (NAT) | p. 338 |
| IP Tables Scripts | p. 341 |
| IP Masquerading | p. 349 |
| Red Hat Servers | |
| Server Management | p. 355 |
| System Startup Files: /etc/rc.d and /etc/ sysconfig | p. 355 |
| SysV Init: init.d Scripts | p. 357 |
| Starting Servers: Standalone and xinetd | p. 359 |
| Service Management Tools: chkconfig and redhat-config-services | p. 360 |
| Service Scripts: /etc/ init.d | p. 365 |
| Extended Internet Services Daemon (xinetd) | p. 368 |
| FTP Servers | p. 377 |
| FTP Servers | p. 377 |
| Anonymous FTP: vsftpd | p. 379 |
| The FTP User Account: anonymous | p. 380 |
| The Very Secure FTP Server | p. 382 |
| Professional FTP Daemon: ProFTPD | p. 389 |
| The Washington University FTP Daemon: WU-FTPD | p. 398 |
| ProFTPD and WU-FTPD Server Tools | p. 399 |
| Web Servers: Apache | p. 401 |
| Tux | p. 401 |
| Apache Web Server | p. 402 |
| Apache Configuration Files | p. 408 |
| Apache Configuration and Directives | p. 408 |
| Virtual Hosting on Apache | p. 425 |
| Server-Side Includes | p. 430 |
| PHP | p. 431 |
| Apache GUI Configuration Tools | p. 431 |
| Web Server Security: SSL | p. 433 |
| Proxy Servers: Squid | p. 437 |
| Configuring Client Browsers | p. 438 |
| squid.conf | p. 439 |
| Security | p. 440 |
| Caches | p. 443 |
| Logs | p. 443 |
| Web Server Acceleration: Reverse Proxy Cache | p. 443 |
| Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, and IMAP | p. 445 |
| Mail Servers | p. 446 |
| Received Mail: MX Records | p. 447 |
| Postfix | p. 448 |
| Sendmail | p. 452 |
| POP Servers | p. 467 |
| IMAP | p. 469 |
| Print Servers | p. 471 |
| CUPS and LPRng | p. 471 |
| Printer Devices and Configuration | p. 471 |
| Managing Printers with CUPS | p. 472 |
| The Line Printer Server: LPRng | p. 480 |
| News and Search Servers | p. 485 |
| News Servers: INN | p. 485 |
| Dig Server | p. 487 |
| System Administration | |
| Basic System Administration | p. 491 |
| Superuser Control: the Root User | p. 491 |
| System Time and Date | p. 494 |
| Scheduling Tasks: cron | p. 495 |
| System Runlevels: telinit, initab, and shutdown | p. 499 |
| Managing Services | p. 503 |
| Red Hat Administration Tools | p. 504 |
| System Directories | p. 504 |
| Configuration Directories and Files | p. 505 |
| System Logs: /var/ log and syslogd | p. 508 |
| Performance Analysis Tools and Processes | p. 512 |
| Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) | p. 515 |
| Backups | p. 516 |
| Managing Users | p. 523 |
| User Configuration Files | p. 523 |
| The Password Files | p. 524 |
| Managing User Environments | p. 526 |
| Adding and Removing Users with useradd, usermod, and userdel | p. 529 |
| Managing Groups | p. 531 |
| Controlling Access to Directories and Files: chmod | p. 533 |
| Disk Quotas | p. 542 |
| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | p. 544 |
| Pluggable Authentication Modules | p. 546 |
| Software Management | p. 549 |
| Software Repositories | p. 549 |
| Software Package Types | p. 550 |
| Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) | p. 551 |
| Installing Software from RPM Source Code Files: SRPMs | p. 559 |
| Installing Software from Compressed Archives: .tar.gz | p. 560 |
| The Concurrent Versions System: CVS | p. 566 |
| Packaging Your Software with RPM | p. 567 |
| File System Management | p. 569 |
| File Systems | p. 570 |
| Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | p. 570 |
| Journaling | p. 579 |
| Mounting File Systems Automatically: /etc/fstab | p. 580 |
| Mounting File Systems Directly: mount and umount | p. 586 |
| Installing IDE CD-R/RW and DVD R/RW Devices | p. 590 |
| Creating File Systems: mkfs, mke2fs, mkswap, parted, and fdisk | p. 592 |
| CD-ROM and DVD ROM Recording | p. 596 |
| RAID and LVM | p. 601 |
| Enabling RAID and LVM in the Kernel | p. 601 |
| Configuring RAID Devices | p. 601 |
| Logical Volume Manager | p. 611 |
| Devices and Modules | p. 617 |
| Device Files | p. 617 |
| Device Information: /proc and /etc/ sysconfig/hwconf | p. 620 |
| Installing and Managing Terminals and Modems | p. 621 |
| Input Devices | p. 622 |
| PCMCIA Devices | p. 623 |
| Installing Sound, Network, and Other Cards | p. 624 |
| Sound Devices | p. 625 |
| Video, TV, and DVD Devices | p. 626 |
| Modules | p. 626 |
| Kernel Administration | p. 633 |
| Kernel Versions | p. 633 |
| Kernel Tuning: Kernel Runtime Parameters | p. 634 |
| Installing a New Kernel Version | p. 635 |
| Precautionary Steps for Modifying a Kernel of the Same Version | p. 638 |
| Compiling the Kernel from Source Code | p. 640 |
| Important Kernel Configuration Features | p. 644 |
| Compiling and Installing the Kernel | p. 646 |
| Boot Loader Configurations | p. 649 |
| Module RAM Disks | p. 649 |
| Network Administration | |
| Domain Name System | p. 653 |
| DNS Address Translations | p. 653 |
| Local Area Network Addressing | p. 656 |
| BIND | p. 658 |
| Domain Name Service Configuration | p. 660 |
| named.conf | p. 662 |
| options Statement | p. 665 |
| Resource Records | p. 669 |
| Zone Files | p. 674 |
| Subdomains and Slaves | p. 682 |
| IP Virtual Domains | p. 684 |
| Cache File | p. 685 |
| Dynamic Update: DHCP and Journal Files | p. 686 |
| DNS Security: Access Control Lists, TSIG, and DNSSEC | p. 687 |
| Split DNS: Views | p. 692 |
| DHCP Server | p. 695 |
| Configuring DHCP Client Hosts | p. 696 |
| Configuring the DHCP Server | p. 696 |
| Dynamic Addresses | p. 698 |
| Dynamic DNS Updates | p. 700 |
| Subnetworks | p. 702 |
| Fixed Addresses | p. 703 |
| NFS and NIS | p. 707 |
| Network File Systems: NFS and /etc/exports | p. 707 |
| Network Information Service: NIS | p. 717 |
| Samba | p. 725 |
| Samba Documentation | p. 725 |
| Samba Applications | p. 726 |
| Starting Up Samba | p. 728 |
| Passwords | p. 729 |
| Configuring the Samba with redhat-config-samba | p. 731 |
| The Samba smb.conf Configuration File | p. 732 |
| SWAT and smb.conf | p. 734 |
| Testing the Samba Configuration | p. 746 |
| Domain Logons | p. 746 |
| Accessing Samba Services with Clients | p. 747 |
| Administering TCP/IP Networks | p. 753 |
| TCP/IP Protocol Suite | p. 753 |
| IPv4 and IPv6 | p. 756 |
| TCP/IP Network Addresses | p. 756 |
| IPv6 Addressing | p. 765 |
| TCP/IP Configuration Files | p. 768 |
| Domain Name Service (DNS) | p. 769 |
| Network Interfaces and Routes: ifconfig and route | p. 774 |
| Monitoring Your Network: ping, netstat, tcpdump, and Ethereal | p. 779 |
| IP Aliasing | p. 782 |
| About the DVD-ROM | p. 783 |
| Index | p. 785 |
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