| Foreword | p. iii |
| Acknowledgments | p. iv |
| About the Contributors | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xxv |
| Introduction | p. xxix |
| Planning | p. 1 |
| Open Source and Free Software | p. 3 |
| GPL and Open Source Licenses | p. 5 |
| About Linux | p. 16 |
| Starting Out | p. 20 |
| Hardware | p. 23 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 35 |
| Installation Preparation | p. 45 |
| Planning the Installation | p. 46 |
| Intel CPU Hardware Selection and Configuration | p. 51 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 71 |
| Installation | p. 81 |
| Disk Partitioning Strategies for Server and Workstation Installations | p. 83 |
| Choosing an Installation Class: Workstation, Laptop, Server, or Custom | p. 84 |
| The Installation Process | p. 96 |
| The LILO Boot Process and Intel Hardware/BIOS Issues | p. 118 |
| Using Syslinux and loadlin | p. 124 |
| Additional Installation Details | p. 125 |
| Creating Partitions: Details | p. 128 |
| Viewing Boot Time Information | p. 142 |
| The Bootup Messages in dmesg | p. 143 |
| Validating the Installation | p. 144 |
| Logging In as root | p. 146 |
| How Do You Know Whether Your Hardware Is Supported? | p. 147 |
| Sample Installation Exercises | p. 148 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 165 |
| Basic Configuration and Administration | p. 175 |
| Adding, Deleting, and Modifying User Accounts | p. 176 |
| The Basic User Environment | p. 182 |
| File System Configuration | p. 184 |
| Using the Red Hat Package Manager | p. 188 |
| Basic Networking | p. 204 |
| chkconfig and ntsysv | p. 214 |
| Virtual Consoles | p. 219 |
| kbdconfig, timeconfig, mouseconfig | p. 220 |
| Mounting Floppy Disks and Removable Media | p. 222 |
| Sound Cards and the sndconfig Utility | p. 224 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 230 |
| Advanced Installation | p. 241 |
| Dual Boots: Linux and Windows NT | p. 242 |
| RAID Configuration | p. 248 |
| PCMCIA | p. 265 |
| Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS | p. 268 |
| Understanding /etc/inittab | p. 270 |
| System Startup Script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit | p. 275 |
| Understanding Kernel Modules | p. 277 |
| The /lib/modules/kernel_version/ Directory Structure | p. 280 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 287 |
| Advanced User Administration | p. 297 |
| Setting Up and Managing Disk Quotas | p. 298 |
| System Initialization Scripts | p. 313 |
| Kernel Recompilation and Installation | p. 318 |
| PAM | p. 352 |
| The cron System | p. 359 |
| System-Wide Shell Configuration for Bourne and Bash Shells | p. 362 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 370 |
| X-Windowing System | p. 385 |
| X-Server | p. 386 |
| X-Clients | p. 399 |
| Startup | p. 407 |
| Remote Display of X Apps | p. 413 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 422 |
| Network Client Services | p. 435 |
| HTTP/Apache | p. 437 |
| FTP | p. 456 |
| Samba | p. 467 |
| Mail Services | p. 497 |
| Printing | p. 506 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 520 |
| Network Management | p. 535 |
| DNS/Bind | p. 536 |
| Squid Proxy Server | p. 548 |
| NFS | p. 551 |
| Internet News | p. 563 |
| DHCP/Bootp | p. 567 |
| Other File-Sharing Methods | p. 572 |
| Time Synchronization | p. 580 |
| PPP Configuration (as a Client) Using netcfg and the Files Generated | p. 583 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 592 |
| Systems Administration and Security | p. 603 |
| Configuring NIS Client | p. 604 |
| Basic Host Security | p. 608 |
| System Logging | p. 614 |
| xinetd | p. 616 |
| IP Aliasing and Virtual Hosts | p. 622 |
| Firewall Policies--Elements | p. 624 |
| Network Address Translation | p. 630 |
| Routing and Static Routes | p. 632 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 639 |
| Operational Administration Recovery and Security | p. 649 |
| Services Should Run as Users or Nobody, Not Root | p. 650 |
| SGID Red Hat Scheme | p. 652 |
| COPS | p. 655 |
| Interaction of CMOS Clock Time and Linux System Time | p. 656 |
| User Process Accounting | p. 658 |
| tmpwatch | p. 662 |
| Emergency Boot Procedures | p. 663 |
| Using the Secure Shell Package--OpenSSH | p. 676 |
| Linuxconf | p. 684 |
| QandA Self Test | p. 690 |
| About the CD | p. 701 |
| Installing CertTrainer | p. 702 |
| CertTrainer | p. 702 |
| ExamSim | p. 702 |
| Saving Scores as Cookies | p. 703 |
| E-Book | p. 703 |
| Help | p. 704 |
| Upgrading | p. 704 |
| Linux | p. 704 |
| About the Web Site | p. 705 |
| Get What You Want When You Want It | p. 706 |
| Glossary | p. 707 |
| Index | p. 753 |
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