A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Prac Gd Fed Red Hat Lin _p1Master All the Techniques You Need to Succeed with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Workplace
You’re studying Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a single goal: to succeed with these state-of-the-art operating systems in real workplace environments. In this book, one of the world’s leading Linux experts brings together all the knowledge you’ll need to achieve that goal. Writing in plain English, best-selling author Mark Sobell explains Linux clearly and effectively, focusing on the skills you will actually use as a professional administrator, user, or programmer. Sobell assumes no prior Linux knowledge: He starts at the very beginning and walks you through every topic and skill that matters.
Step by step, you’ll learn how to install and configure Linux from the accompanying DVD, navigate its graphical user interfaces, set up Linux to provide file/print sharing and Internet services, make sure Linux desktops and networks are as secure as possible, work with the powerful command line, and administer Linux in real business environments.
Mark Sobell has taught hundreds of thousands of Linux and UNIX professionals. He knows every Linux nook and cranny–and he never forgets what it’s like to be new to Linux. Whatever your Linux-related career goals, this book gives you all you need–and more.
Compared with the other Linux books out there, A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, College Edition, delivers
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Contents
Welcome to Linux | |
Installing Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
StepbyStep Installation | |
Getting Started with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
Getting Started with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux | |
The Linux Filesystem | |
Directory Files and Ordinary Files | |
NIS and LDAP | |
Sharing Filesystems | |
Integrating Linux and Windows | |
Tracking Domain Names and Addresses | |
Setting Up a Firewall | |
Setting Up a Web Server | |
Programming | |
Programming Tools | |
The Shell | |
Which Service to Look at First | |
The Shell | |
The Bourne Again Shell | |
Networking and the Internet | |
System Administration | |
Printing with CUPS | |
Rebuilding the Linux Kernel | |
Rebuilding the Linux Kernel | |
Administration Tasks | |
Configuring a | |
Using Clients and Setting Up Servers | |
Advanced Exercises | |
Exercises | |
Chapter Summary | |
Programming the Bourne Again Shell | |
Appendixes | |
A Regular Expressions | |
B Help | |
Security | |
NFS Sharing Filesystems | |
The Free Software Definition | |
E The Linux 2 6 Kernel | |
remap_file_pages | |
Glossary | |
Index | |