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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Sams (27 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0672328925
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672328923
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm
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Product Description

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 security—including a detailed introduction to Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

 

  • Streamline deployment with Kickstart
  • Find, install, update, remove, and verify software
  • Detect, analyze, and manage hardware
  • Manage storage with LVM, RAID, ACLs, and quotas
  • Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on 64-bit and multi-core systems
  • Administer users and groups more efficiently and securely
  • Ensure trustworthy backup and rapid recovery
  • Script and schedule tasks to run automatically
  • Provide unified identity management services
  • Configure Apache, BIND, Samba, and Sendmail
  • Monitor and tune the kernel and individual applications
  • Protect against intruders with SELinux and ExecShield
  • Set up firewalls with iptables
  • Enable the Linux Auditing System
  • Use virtualization to run multiple operating systems concurrently

 

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

 



From the Back Cover

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 security—including a detailed introduction to Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

 

  • Streamline deployment with Kickstart
  • Find, install, update, remove, and verify software
  • Detect, analyze, and manage hardware
  • Manage storage with LVM, RAID, ACLs, and quotas
  • Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on 64-bit and multi-core systems
  • Administer users and groups more efficiently and securely
  • Ensure trustworthy backup and rapid recovery
  • Script and schedule tasks to run automatically
  • Provide unified identity management services
  • Configure Apache, BIND, Samba, and Sendmail
  • Monitor and tune the kernel and individual applications
  • Protect against intruders with SELinux and ExecShield
  • Set up firewalls with iptables
  • Enable the Linux Auditing System
  • Use virtualization to run multiple operating systems concurrently

 

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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3.0 out of 5 stars ok, but sadly typical of IT books in general, 17 Mar 2009
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Its not a bad book - the info is there but like too many books it sets out an intended audience then forgets them.

The writing style is "ping - pong". "Use the gui unless you use the text interface. Or use the text interface if you dont use the gui" - paraphrasing but thats pretty typical. Chunks of it read like a man page with no clear explanation of WHY!!

Examples are confused by introducing too many alternates - stick with one typical setup and work it through, put the alternates in a seperate section at the end of the chapter - thus creating a framework to hang the info on and not confuse the issue.

As I said the info is there, but like too many IT books you have to dig for it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, 18 Mar 2008
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As a Linux user I buy many books and this is one of the best sys admin books available. Easy to understand and comprehensive. RHEL5 is an excellent system and you'll understand it much better with this book.
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