Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed
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This comprehensive guide can help you administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 effectively in any production environment, no matter how complex or challenging.
Long-time Red Hat insider Tammy Fox brings together today’s best practices for the entire system lifecycle, from planning and deployment through maintenance and troubleshooting. Fox shows how to maximize your efficiency and effectiveness by automating day-to-day maintenance through scripting, deploying security updates via Red Hat Network, implementing central identity management services, and providing shared data with NFS and Samba.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed contains extensive coverage of network and web services, from the Apache HTTP server and Sendmail email services to remote login with OpenSSH. Fox also describes Red Hat’s most valuable tools for monitoring and optimization and presents thorough coverage of securityâ??including a detailed introduction to Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).
Part I Installation and Configuration Chapter 1 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Chapter 2 Post-Installation Configuration Chapter 3 Operating System Updates
Part II Operating System Core Concepts Chapter 4 Understanding Linux Concepts Chapter 5 Working with RPM Software Chapter 6 Analyzing Hardware Chapter 7 Managing Storage Chapter 8 64-Bit, Multi-Core, and Hyper-Threading Technology Processors
Part III System Administration Chapter 9 Managing Users and Groups Chapter 10 Techniques for Backup and Recovery Chapter 11 Automating Tasks with Scripts
Part IV Network Services Chapter 12 Identity Management Chapter 13 Network File Sharing Chapter 14 Granting Network Connectivity with DHCP Chapter 15 Creating a Web Server with the Apache HTTP Server Chapter 16 Hostname Resolution with BIND Chapter 17 Securing Remote Logins with OpenSSH Chapter 18 Setting Up an Email Server with Sendmail Chapter 19 Explaining Other Common Network Services Part V Monitoring and Tuning Chapter 20 Monitoring System Resources Chapter 21 Monitoring and Tuning the Kernel Chapter 22 Monitoring and Tuning Applications Chapter 23 Protecting Against Intruders with Security-Enhanced Linux Chapter 24 Configuring a Firewall Chapter 25 Linux Auditing System Appendixes Appendix A Installing Proprietary Kernel Modules Appendix B Creating Virtual Machines Appendix C Preventing Security Breaches with ExecShield Appendix D Troubleshooting
Tammy Fox served as technical leader of Red Hat’s documentation group, where she wrote and revised The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide. She was founding editor of Red Hat Magazine, now an online publication reaching more than 800,000 system administrators and others interested in Linux and open source. She wrote Red Hat’s LogViewer tool and has written and contributed to several Red Hat configuration tools. Fox is also the founding leader of the Fedora Docs Project.
Register your book at www.samspublishing.com/register for convenient access to updates and to download example scripts presented in this book.
Category: Linux/Networking Covers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 User Level: Intermediate–Advanced
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| 05-03-08 | 3 | (NA) |
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It is stated that the book is for intermediate to advanced level. However, I did not found it advanced at all. Little bit of disappointment.
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| 07-27-07 | 5 | 0\3 |
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Advanced computer library holdings catering to programmers and professionals need Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed: it provides administrators with keys to using Red Hat in any production environment and comes from the technical leader of Red Hat's documentation group, so it's coming from a creator, not just a programmer. Best practices for the entire system lifecycle covers planning, deployment and troubleshooting and packs in a range of tips and applications essential to successful Red Hat strategies.
Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-05-12 04:58:33 EST)
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| 07-16-07 | 2 | (NA) |
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S0me good general info - but watch our for the quality of examples. In my case, I was bitten hard by the "Installing with PXE" section of chapter 1. I found multiple typos in the example commands, file lists, and configuration files. When combined with the fact that error messages for these kinds of configuraitons are sparse - and documentation even mroe so - it was that much more dissapoiinting that the key text wasn't vetted prior to publishing.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-28 12:42:42 EST)
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| 06-11-07 | 4 | 4\5 |
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I have read about 3/4th of this book so far,most of it is mainly just review for me since the RHEL 5 release. I have noticed so far a few issues mainly with grammar, spelling, and multiple misguided instructions such as the PXE installation method, LDAP setup, and a few other minor things. Overall the book is my favorite linux related book since it gets right to the point and doesnt have all the boring history lessons about 15 years ago when service such and such was developed and how it is completely different etc etc. Any one who's read a linux related book knows what im talking about.
In regards to the misguided instructions, for instance the PXE setup. I have gone through the chapter about 5 times now and slowly stepped through the documentation as it explains but still have yet to be able to get the correct outcome.(a working PXE installation). I have previous experience with PXE so I was able to figure this out on my own with no issue but worry that some new admins to RHEL will have a hard time getting this particular method of installation setup. I'm unfortunetly human so I still may have gotten the steps down wrong and other may find that the instructions are infact correct. If so ... cool. :) - runlevel - (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-16 21:30:53 EST)
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| 05-18-07 | 4 | 1\4 |
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I have not yet received this book, but due to the poor quality of the other review I wanted to post. This is a RHEL5 book that is looking forward, not back. You really shouldn't be using telnet in 2007 (except maybe to connect to some old equipment); from the table of contents I see that X11 forwarding is covered in the chapter about OpenSSH. What's I'm excited about are the new features: NFSv4 (better security and static ports!), provisioning servers with RHN and kickstart, Oprofile, SELinux, auditd, etc. By the way, the author works for Red Hat and is very active in these technologies. I do wish there was less general linux information in this book since that is heavily covered by other excellect publications.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-06-12 01:39:18 EST)
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| 05-13-07 | 1 | 1\7 |
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I was so excited to see this book come out that I bought it immediately! Then, I read it. Wow. It completely leaves out any detail or mention of major items that are different than the previuos version of Red Hat. For instance, it does not even mention telnet. It doesn't mention XDMCP protocal at all. (So how does one connect to xwindows on Red Hat 5? NO IDEA, because it's different than Red Hat 4, and the author doesn't even mention it in this book.) Hard to believe. I could go on for another 10 pages on what is missing in this book, but then I would have wasted more valuable time, (that I'm trying to recoop from reading this... "book.")
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-05-18 10:30:33 EST)
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| 05-09-07 | 4 | 1\5 |
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Fox's book is perhaps best suited for a sysadmin with some earlier background in any flavour of unix or linux. If you are coming in totally raw to linux, the style of managing this Red Hat version may take some getting used to. Unlike Microsoft's operating systems, the user interfaces available under Red Hat might seem a little sparse. Though to be fair to Red Hat, they've been assiduously building out the UI. A lot of the sysadmin tasks covered in the text are at the command line.
The main linux concepts are well covered. Including that of run level, to which a system will boot into. A nice feature that unixes of 10 years ago often lacked. Another powerful feature is the making of partitions on a hard disk. A fundamental utility that, frankly, you should not often need. But sometimes you do, when installing a new disk. Or when trying to recover from a crashed disk. Poring over the text, it was nice to see respectful mention given to vi and emacs. These long predate the fancy text editors that Microsoft [and others] came up with. But you can run these under a vanilla text terminal, and they are very lightweight. Without getting into a long running debate as to which of vi or emacs is more useful, you should try to learn one. It doesn't really matter which. If you are going to be maintaining a linux box, there will be times when you have no graphics available, and you need to edit some text file. Readers who are familiar with Macs might notice that the book has little coverage of video and audio. The Mac runs a version of unix that has applications specially built for those. Whereas Red Hat is for generic linux uses. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-05-12 21:10:40 EST)
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