Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Wrox Professional Guides)

Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Wrox Professional Guides) Review



What is this book about?

Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is a complete professional guide to setting up, configuring, and deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the corporate production environment. The book focuses on Enterprise Server and Advanced Server features, including the key areas of high availability with the Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network Control Center, and Red Hat Enterprise applications such as the Content Management System and portal server. Other key unique features include kernel tuning for various performance profiles; advanced Apache configuration; Tux installation/maintenance; building high-performance FTP servers; building high-performance mail servers (which means replacing Sendmail); Mailing list management; how to efficiently add, remove, or modify 100 users at the same time; and a discussion of disk quota management and monitoring.

What does this book cover?

The key features of the book include the following:

  • How to install and setup RHEL 3
  • How to deploy RHEL 3 in production environment
  • How to manage an RHEL system using Perl and shell scripting
  • Advanced administration tools
  • How to use Red Hat network service
  • Details on installation and setup of security tools
  • Ability to use and deploy High Availability solutions provided with RHEL 3
  • Performance tuning
  • How to use monitoring tools
  • Ability to use RHEL to provide scalable infrastructure solutions.


Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Install, Configure, and Customize Red Hat Linux

Install, Configure, and Customize Red Hat Linux Review



Written by an experienced Linux administrator, Install, Configure, and Customize Red Hat Linux 6 provides the advice you need for working through the trouble spots you might run into when setting up Red Hat Linux. With step-by-step instructions and a multitude of helpful screen shots, this book takes you through the installation, configuration, and customization process to make Linux work the way you need it to.


Sunday, February 26, 2012

Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, A (5th Edition)

Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, A (5th Edition) Review




Master All the Techniques You Need to Succeed with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • Set up key Internet servers, step by step, including Samba, Apache, sendmail, DNS, FTP, and other Internet servers
  • Automate and streamline administration with this edition’s outstanding new chapter on Perl scripting
  • Master GUI-based admin tools and the powerful Linux command line (CLI) 

In this book, one of the world’s leading Linux experts brings together all the knowledge you’ll need to succeed with Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux in any real-world environment. Best-selling author Mark Sobell explains Linux clearly and effectively, focusing on skills you’ll actually use as an administrator, user, or programmer.

 

Sobell assumes no prior Linux knowledge. He starts at the beginning and walks you through every topic and task that matters, using easy-to-understand examples. Step by step, you’ll learn how to install and configure Linux from the accompanying DVD, navigate its graphical user interfaces, provide file/print sharing and Internet services, make sure Linux desktops and networks are as secure as possible, work with the powerful command line, administer Linux efficiently, and even automate administration with Perl scripts.

 

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 you’ll want to do with Linux–now or in the future–this book gives you everything you’ll need.

 

Compared with the other Linux books out there, A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Fifth Edition, delivers

  • Complete, up-to-the-minute coverage of Fedora 12 and RHEL 5
  • Deeper coverage of the command line and the newest GUIs, including desktop customization
  • More practical coverage of file sharing using Samba, NFS, and FTP
  • More and better coverage of automating administration with Perl
  • More usable, realistic coverage of Internet server configuration, including Apache, sendmail, NFS, DNS/BIND, and LDAP
  • More state-of-the-art security techniques, including SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), ACLs (Access Control Lists), firewall setup using both the Red Hat GUI and iptables, and a full chapter on OpenSSH
  • More and better coverage of system/network administration tasks, including new coverage of network monitoring with Cacti
  • Complete instructions on keeping Linux systems up-to-date using yum
  • And much more, including a 500+ term glossary and a comprehensive index  

Includes DVD! Get the full version of the Fedora 12 release!


Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Install, Configure, and Customize Red Hat Linux 7

Install, Configure, and Customize Red Hat Linux 7 Review



The new kernel is big news in the Linux community. Although these revisions to the operating system have helped to make Linux more approachable to the masses, there are still unanswered questions. Written by an experienced Linux administrator, Install, Configure, and Customize Red Hat Linux X provides you with advice to help you work through trouble spots that this flavor of Linux is known for. Step-by-step, using 200 screenshots, this book takes you through installing and configuring Linux and then shows you how to customize Linux to suit your needs. This beginning through intermediate book is for users who have just downloaded or purchased Red Hat Linux. You don’t necessarily need to be new to Linux, but find the need for some expert instruction on deciphering Red Hat Linux.


Sunday, February 19, 2012

Sams Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux Fedora in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux Fedora in 24 Hours Review



Linux is an operating system, based on Unix, that has become a viable desktop system for many users, especially those involved with system and network administration.

This book covers all the most important topics for the reader who wants to get Linux up and running and to become productive with the operating system as quickly as possible. The book covers topics such as installing, setting up, and negotiating the new desktop environment, and also includes:

  • An explanation of what is happening behind the scenes - the reader learns how the system works as well as what to do, in simple, layman's language.
  • Special attention to new features of the latest release, especially tools that make tasks that used to be difficult easier.
  • Instruction on troubleshooting practices and debugging tools.
  • A comprehensive list of all major places to get Linux support and answers.


Saturday, February 18, 2012

Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora

Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Review



The GNU/Linux® success story is well known. Firmly established as a high-performance operating system, its worldwide installations are increasing at phenomenal rates. Much of this success has been on the server side, but more and more PC users are turning to Linux on the desktop, as well.

For those grounded in Microsoft Windows® or Apple Macintosh® graphical interfaces, the first look at a powerful Unix-style operating system can be daunting. This book provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to the popular Red Hat® distribution of Linux. It takes you through installation and shows you the key parts of the system, always with an eye toward what can go wrong and what you need to know to get over the humps.

Linux is known as a secure environment and a good platform to run a web server. These topics are among the many covered in this book. But did you know you can also burn CDs, sync a PalmPilot™, and edit slideshow presentations with powerful tools on Linux? Those topics are covered here, too.

Red Hat currently provides two distributions, both documented in this book. The first is their commercial, subscription-based product, called Red Hat Enterprise Linux and also available through retail channels as Red Hat Professional Workstation. The second is the freely distributed Fedora distribution. The Publisher's Edition of Fedora is included in this book on two disks.

New in this edition are installation instructions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, package updating for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, information on the GRUB bootloader, and the CUPS printer system.

Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora tells you how to:

  • Prepare your system for installing Linux
  • Install and configure Linux and the two popular desktop environments, GNOME and KDE.
  • Run the most popular productivity tools on Linux: mailers, web browsers, OpenOffice, and Evolution.
  • Obtain and set up software through the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
  • Set up a Linux system for networking, either on your local area network (LAN), or via a dialup connection to the Internet.
  • Use the system-administration tools included with Red Hat, GNOME, and KDE, including such valuable utilities as Samba file-sharing and the Apache web server.
  • Understand and write shell scripts so you can peek under the hood and extend the power of Linux.


Monday, February 13, 2012

The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide

The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide Review



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The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide is packed with 44 easy-to-follow hands-on exercises plus numerous command examples and screen captures to help you build a working Linux server configuration from scratch. It's the most straight-forward approach to learning how to configure a CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora Linux server (the book is based on version 5.4 and 5.5), filled with practical tips and secrets learned from years of teaching, consulting, and administering Linux servers.  There is no time wasted on boring theory.

The essentials are covered in chapters on installing, administering, user management, file systems and directory management, networking, package management, automated task scheduling, network services, Samba, NFS, disk quotas, mail servers, Web and FTP servers, desktop sharing, printing, security, routing, performance monitoring, management tools, and more.
Here's what you'll find:
  • How to configure an Apache Web server, including virtual hosts
  • How to configure file and printer sharing for Windows clients with Samba
  • How to understand Linux file and directory permissions
All this information is presented in a straightforward style that you can understand and use right away. The idea is for you to be able to sit down with your Linux server and build a working configuration in a matter of minutes.  Of course, some of the more advanced configs may take a little longer, but even so, you'll be able to "get it done" in a minimal amount of time!


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Bible: Administering Enterprise Linux Systems

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Bible: Administering Enterprise Linux Systems Review



The ultimate resource on the newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux handles all your enterprise computing needs—and this guide answers all your Red Hat questions! Packed with invaluable information on the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this book emphasizes the most important topics you need to know about version 6. You'll explore such subjects as virtualization, clustering, Red Hat Network/Satellite server, and other enterprise-related topics.

  • Presents complete coverage of the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Addresses virtualization, clustering, kickstart installs, security, system monitoring, local and networked storage, and other topics
  • Targets system administrators in large corporate and government IT departments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Bible is a must-have book if you are venturing into using the newest version of Red Hat Linux.


Saturday, February 11, 2012

Red Hat® Linux® Secrets®

Red Hat® Linux® Secrets® Review



This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Red Hat Linux Secrets documents little-known features and offers expert solutions to specific problems -- from setting up an Internet host to running a business to developing software. With complete coverage of the latest installation changes and hardware configurations, as well as the new graphical user interfaces, this technical guide gives you the tools you need to implement Red Hat Linux effectively. Includes CD-ROM with Red Hat Linux 6, including:
* Kernel 2.2.10
* Apache Web Server 1.3.6
* Netscape Communicator 4.61 and Samba 2.0.3 for file and print sharing with Microsoft Windows


Thursday, February 9, 2012

Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible Unlimited Edition (With CD-ROM)

Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible Unlimited Edition (With CD-ROM) Review



Get step-by-step instructions for making Linux installation simple and painless; Familiarize yourself with the Linux shell, file system, and text editor; Use the XWindow System to customize your desktop menus, icons, window manager, and xterm; Create and publish formatted documents with Linux applications; Get step -by-step instructions for making Linux installation simple and painless; Gain key system administration skills including setting up users, automating system tasks, backing up and restoring files, and understanding the latest security issues and threats.

Plus, this edition includes thorough coverage of updated installation procedures, new KDE desktop tools, how to use the Mozilla web browser and gaim instant messaging, how to administer automounting file systems, and how to burn CDs and configure CD writers.

This book is accompanied by the UNLIMITED EDITION(tm) web site. Only original buyers of the book will have access through special codes to the site, and can then be privy new chapters monthly, updates on the state of the software, Linux-related articles.


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization

Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization Review



Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization is a reference for power-users and administrators covering all security issues, including Filesystems Security, Securing root accounts and Firewalls. Other Security books talk about how to apply certain patches to fix a security problem -- but this book shows you how to secure all applications so that the chances for a security breach are automatically minimized. Application performance benchmarking will also be covered. This book introduces you to many application-specific performance and benchmarking techniques and shows you how to tune your computer as well as your networks. This book covers all the primary Red Hat Linux Applications such as Apache Web Server, WuFTP, FTP server, BIND DNS server, Sendmail SMTP server and focuses on how to enhance security for each of them. It also shows you how to secure NFS and Samba Server, as well as the Apache Web Server.


Monday, February 6, 2012

Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed

Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed Review



Continuing with the tradition of offering the best and most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat Linux.

Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Red Hat Linux, the book aims to provide the best and latest information intermediate to advanced Red Hat users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security.

All chapters concentrate on Red Hat Linux software packages, including up to date coverage of:

  • The architecture of the Linux kernel 2.4.18
  • USB
  • KDE
  • GNOME 1.4
  • Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls
  • The XFree86 4.2 architecture and features
  • Disk tuning
  • GCC 2.2
  • Perl 5.6.1
  • Python 2
  • Printing services (CUPS)
  • Security


Sunday, February 5, 2012

RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide (Exams EX200 & EX300), 6th Edition (Certification Press)

RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide (Exams EX200 & EX300), 6th Edition (Certification Press) Review



The best fully integrated study system available (Exams EX200 and EX300)

With hundreds of review questions and complete coverage of performance-based requirements, RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide, Sixth Edition covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for these challenging exams.

  • 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for Exams EX200 and EX300
  • Exam Readiness Checklist--you're ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off
  • Inside the Exam sections in every chapter highlight key exam topics covered
  • Two-Minute Drills for quick review
  • 100+ lab questions--two full lab-based RHCSA exams and two full lab-based RHCE exams--match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam

Covers all the exam topics, including:
Virtual Machines and Automated Installations * Fundamental Command Line Skills * RHCSA-Level Security Options * The Boot Process * Linux Filesystem Administration * Package Management * User Administration * RHCSA-Level System Administration * RHCE Security * System Services and SELinux * RHCE Administration * Mail Servers * Samba * File Sharing * DNS, FTP, and Logging

CD-ROM includes:

  • Complete lab-based exam preparation, featuring:
    • Two full RHCSA practice exams
    • Two full RHCE practice exams
    • Lab-based chapter self tests
    • In-depth answer explanations for all labs
  • RHCSA and RHCE Glossary
  • PDF copy of the book for studying on the go

Michael Jang, RHCE, LPIC-2, UCP, LCP, MCP, is the author of three previous bestselling editions of RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide and several other books on Linux and professional certification.