MasteringTM Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 3

Book excerpt: Your Complete Guide to the World's Leading Linux Enterprise Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is emerging as the corporate Linux standard. One of the first books to focus on this robust product, Mastering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 gives you the practical information you need to install, configure, and network Linux on a large number of computers. For experienced administrators, this book uniquely features detailed coverage of Apache, TUX, Samba, NFS, vsFTP, Squid, SSH, DNS, DHCP, iptables, CUPS, sendmail, Postfix, NIS, LDAP, MySQL, system administration command line and GUI tools and utilities for each phase of the management process. It also helps you configure the GUI for enterprise workstations. Topics include: Installing Linux on a standalone system, over a network, and automatically on multiple computers Navigating the command line interface Administering users and groups securely Managing packages with the RPM GUI tool Configuring and troubleshooting the boot process Upgrading and recompiling kernels Backing up your system with RAID Understanding basic TCP/IP networking Managing Linux on your LAN Securing Linux firewalls Ensuring secure remote access Installing, configuring, and testing DNS, DHCP, CUPS, sendmail and Postfix mail servers Configuring and troubleshooting FTP, NFS, Samba, Apache, TUX, and Squid Effectively using Linux authentication services--NIS and LDAP Using Red Hat GUI administrative tools appropriately Setting up MySQL for databases Managing X servers and X clients Working with GNOME and KDE