This book is designed as an administration, security, and desktop reference for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Administration tools are covered as well as the underlying configuration files and system implementations. Desktop and shell operations are also examined. Topics covered include user management, devices, kernel customization, software installs, virtualization, services, monitoring, shell configuration, encryption, authentication, SELinux, firewalls, file systems, RAID and LVM, desktop preferences, GNOME, KDE, desktop applications, shared folders, shell commands, and printers. Coverage includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 5.2. Installation and setup are also covered.
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This book is designed as an administration, security, and desktop reference for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Administration tools are covered as well as the underlying configuration files and system implementations. Desktop and shell operations are also examined. Topics covered include user management, devices, kernel customization, software installs, virtualization, services, monitoring, shell configuration, encryption, authentication, SELinux, firewalls, file systems, RAID and LVM, desktop preferences, GNOME, KDE, desktop applications, shared folders, shell commands, and printers. Coverage includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and 5.2. Installation and setup are also covered. The book is organized into four parts: system administration, security, and file system and device management, and the desktop. . Part 1 focuses on administrative tasks such as managing users, monitoring your system, managing software, customizing the kernel, setting up virtual systems, and performing backups. Both Red Hat Enterprise Linux administrative GUI administrative tools and their command line counterparts are examined. Part 2 keys in on security tasks beginning with authorizations and authentication. GPG encryption support as well as the structure of public/private key encryption is covered. File and directory permissions, along with access controls are examined. SELinux tools and the format and structure of SELinux configurations are discussed. SSH encryptions and Kerberos authentication are also examined. The security section ends with a detailed examination of IPtables firewalls. Available Red Hat Enterprise Linux GUI security tools, like system-config-selinux, are also examined. Part 3 deals with file systems and devices. File systems formats are discussed in detail along with mount operations. LVM and Linux RAID are covered. For devices, both HAL and udev are examined in detail. Backup applications for your file systems are then discussed. Part 4 covers the desktop. First discussed are desktop configuration tasks that user can perform by setting preferences. Then the GNOME and KDE desktop interfaces are examined in detail. Applications available from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop and server repositories are surveyed, including office and Web applications, mail clients, graphic tools, databases, and editors. Then the command line shell commands are discussed. Printer and Network connection configuration from the desktop is also examined, including remote printer and shared folder configuration.
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The corrected version of the RAID chapter (16) for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: Administration, Security, and Desktop" is included as the same chapter (16) in "Fedora 10 Linux: Administration, Networking, and Security".
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I was expecting a lot from this book. My disappointment is total.I jumped into it going to the section on RAID disks. There I found countless errors, some excusable typos, but other blatant nonsense or contradictions. For ex., author writes that a RAID-5 requires at least 3 partitions (rightly so), but gives mdadm command line examples (see p.348, 349, 350) where a RAID-5 level is defined using just two (nonsense). For monitoring a RAID array, the author refers on p. 352 to the mdmonitor service, and illustrates how to start this service with command "service mdadm start" (nonsense again). Icing on the cake comes on page 353 with a section titled "Configuring Bootable RAID". Following paragraphs have nothing to do with how to configure a bootable RAID device. In fact, what follows is a word for word repeat of previous contents on pages 349-350. Last sentence reads : "To more efficiently use space you could use corresponding hard disk partitions as described in the next section". To the reader dismay, the chapter ends right there, without the promised section. I had more than enough, and closed the book, outraged. This book is, well, a total disgrace. I would politely ask Amazon to withdraw it from its offerings.
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This book has more typographical and grammar errors than should be allowed. There are redundant statements. There are errors in some information. This book definitely missed its mark. Don't waste your money. Get a Redhat Enterprise book from a more reputable source/author.
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