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| Preface | |
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| Welcome to Linux | |
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| The GNU Linux Connection | |
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| The Linux 2.6 Kernel | |
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| The Heritage of Linux: UNIX | |
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| What Is So Good About Linux? | |
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| Overview of Linux | |
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| Additional Features of Linux | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Installing Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
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| Installation Overview | |
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| The Desktop Live CD and the Install DVD | |
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| Planning the Installation | |
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| The Installation Process | |
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| The Medium: Where Is the Source Data? | |
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| Downloading a CD/DVD (FEDORA) | |
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| Checking and Burning the CD/DVD | |
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| Rescue Selection of the Install DVD | |
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| Gathering Information About the System | |
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| Finding the Installation Manual | |
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| More Information | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Step-by-Step Installation | |
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| Running a Fedora Live Session | |
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| Installing Fedora/RHEL | |
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| Installation Tasks | |
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| The X Window System | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Getting Started with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
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| Introduction to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
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| Curbing Your Power (Superuser/root Privileges) | |
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| A Tour of the Fedora/RHEL Desktop | |
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| Getting the Most Out of the Desktop | |
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| Updating, Installing, and Removing Software Packages | |
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| Where to Find Documentation | |
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| More About Logging In | |
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| Working from the Command Line | |
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| Controlling Windows: Advanced Operations | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| The Linux Utilities | |
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| Special Characters | |
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| Basic Utilities | |
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| Working with Files | |
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| (Pipe): Communicates Between Processes | |
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| Four More Utilities | |
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| Compressing and Archiving Files | |
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| Locating Commands | |
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| Obtaining User and System Information | |
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| Communicating with Other Users | |
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| Email | |
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| Tutorial: Creating and Editing a File Using vim | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| The Linux Filesystem | |
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| The Hierarchical Filesystem | |
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| Directory Files and Ordinary Files | |
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| Pathnames | |
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| Directory Commands | |
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| Working with Directories | |
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| Access Permissions | |
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| ACLs: Access Control Lists | |
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| Links | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| The Shell | |
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| The Command Line | |
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| Standard Input and Standard Output | |
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| Running a Program in the Background | |
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| Filename Generation/Pathname Expansion | |
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| Builtins | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Utilities and Builtins Introduced in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Digging into Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
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| Linux GUIs: X and GNOME | |
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| X Window System | |
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| The Nautilus File Browser Window | |
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| The Nautilus Spatial View | |
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| GNOME Utilities | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| The Bourne Again Shell | |
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| Background | |
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| Shell Basics | |
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| Parameters and Variables | |
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| Special Characters | |
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| Processes | |
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| History | |
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| Aliases | |
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| Functions | |
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| Controlling bash Features and Options | |
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| Processing the Command Line | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Networking and the Internet | |
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| Types of Networks and How They Work | |
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| Communicate Over a Network | |
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| Network Utilities | |
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| Distributed Computing | |
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| Usenet | |
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| WWW: World Wide Web | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| System Administration | |
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| System Administration: Core Concepts | |
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| System Administrator and Superuser | |
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| Rescue Mode | |
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| SELinux | |
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| The Upstart Event-Based init Daemon (FEDORA) | |
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| System Operation | |
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| System Administration Utilities | |
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| Setting Up a Server | |
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| Nsswitch.conf: Which Service to Look at First | |
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| PAM | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Files, Directories, and Filesystems | |
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| Important Files and Directories | |
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| File Types | |
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| Filesystems | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Downloading and Installing Software | |
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| Yum: Keeps the System Up-to-Date | |
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| Adding and Removing Software Packages | |
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| BitTorrent | |
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| Rpm: Red Hat Package Manager | |
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| Installing Non-rpm Software | |
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| Keeping Software Up-to-Date | |
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| Wget: Downloads Files Noninteractively | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Printing with CUPS | |
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| Introduction | |
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| JumpStart I: Configuring a Local Printer | |
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| System-config-printer: Configuring a Printer | |
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| JumpStart II: Setting Up a Local or Remote Printer Using the CUPS Web Interface | |
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| Traditional UNIX Printing | |
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| Configuring Printers | |
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| Printing from Windows | |
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| Printing to Windows | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Rebuilding the Linux Kernel | |
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| Preparing the Source Code | |
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| Read the Documentation | |
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| Configuring and Compiling the Linux Kernel | |
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| Installing the Kernel and Associated Files | |
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| Rebooting the System | |
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| Boot Loader | |
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| Dmesg: Displays Kernel Messages | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Administration Tasks | |
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| Configuring User and Group Accounts | |
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| Backing Up Files | |
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| Scheduling Tasks | |
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| System Reports | |
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| Parted: Reports on and Partitions a Hard Disk | |
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| Keeping Users Informed | |
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| Creating Problems | |
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| Solving Problems | |
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| MySQL | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Configuring and Monitoring a LAN | |
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| Setting Up the Hardware | |
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| Configuring the Systems | |
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| NetworkManager: Configures Network Connections | |
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| The Network Configuration Window (system-config-network) | |
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| Iwconfig: Configures a Wireless NIC | |
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| Setting Up Servers | |
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| Introduction to Cacti | |
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| More Information | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Using Clients and Setting Up Servers | |
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| OpenSSH: Secure Network Communication | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About OpenSSH | |
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| OpenSSH Clients | |
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| Sshd: OpenSSH Server | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Tunneling/Port Forwarding | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| FTP: Transferring Files Across a Network | |
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| Introduction | |
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| More Information | |
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| FTP Client | |
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| FTP Server (vsftpd) | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Sendmail: Setting Up Mail Clients, Servers, and More | |
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| Introduction | |
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| JumpStart I: Configuring sendmail on a Client | |
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| JumpStart II: Configuring sendmail on a Server | |
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| How sendmail Works | |
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| Configuring sendmail | |
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| Additional Email Tools | |
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| Authenticated Relaying | |
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| Alternatives to sendmail | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| NIS and LDAP | |
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| Introduction to NIS | |
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| How NIS Works | |
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| Setting Up an NIS Client | |
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| Setting Up an NIS Server | |
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| LDAP | |
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| Setting Up an LDAP Server | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| NFS: Sharing Filesystems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| More Information | |
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| Setting Up an NFS Client | |
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| Setting Up an NFS Server | |
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| Automount: Automatically Mounts Directory Hierarchies | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Samba: Integrating Linux and Windows | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About Samba | |
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| JumpStart: Configuring a Samba Server Using system-config-samba | |
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| Swat: Configures a Samba Server | |
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| Manually Configuring a Samba Server | |
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| Accessing Linux Shares from Windows | |
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| Accessing Windows Shares from Linux | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| DNS/BIND: Tracking Domain Names and Addresses | |
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| Introduction to DNS | |
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| About DNS | |
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| JumpStart I: Setting Up a DNS Cache | |
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| JumpStart II: Setting Up a Domain Using system-config-bind | |
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| Setting Up BIND | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| A Full-Functioned Nameserver | |
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| A Slave Server | |
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| A Split Horizon Server | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Iptables: Setting Up a Firewall | |
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| How iptables Works | |
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| About iptables | |
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| JumpStart: Building a Firewall Using system-config-firewall | |
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| Anatomy of an iptables Command | |
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| Building a Set of Rules | |
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| System-config-firewall: Generates a Set of Rules | |
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| Sharing an Internet Connection Using NAT | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Apache (httpd): Setting Up a Web Server | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About Apache | |
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| JumpStart I: Getting Apache Up and Running | |
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| JumpStart II: Setting Up Apache Using system-config-httpd | |
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| Filesystem Layout | |
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| Configuration Directives | |
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| The Fedora/RHEL httpd.conf File | |
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| Redirects | |
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| Multiviews | |
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| Server-Generated Directory Listings (Indexing) | |
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| Virtual Hosts | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Modules | |
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| Webalizer: Analyzes Web Traffic | |
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| MRTG: Monitors Traffic Loads | |
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| Error Codes | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Programming Tools | |
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| Programming the Bourne Again Shell | |
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| Control Structures | |
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| File Descriptors | |
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| Parameters and Variables | |
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| Builtin Commands | |
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| Expressions | |
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| Shell Programs | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| The Perl Scripting Language | |
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| Introduction to Perl | |
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| Variables | |
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| Control Structures | |
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| Working with Files | |
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| Sort | |
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| Subroutines | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| CPAN Modules | |
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| Examples | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Advanced Exercises | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Characters | |
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| Delimiters | |
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| Simple Strings | |
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| Special Characters | |
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| Rules | |
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| Bracketing Expressions | |
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| The Replacement String | |
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| Extended Regular Expressions | |
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| Appendix Summary | |
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| Help | |
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| Solving a Problem | |
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| Finding Linux-Related Information | |
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| Specifying a Terminal | |
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| Security | |
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| Encryption | |
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| File Security | |
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| Email Security | |
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| Network Security | |
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| Host Security | |
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| Security Resources | |
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| Appendix Summary | |
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| The Free Software Definition | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |