Red Hat Linux Administrator's Handbook [Paperback]

Mohammed J. Kabir (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764547976 | ISBN-13: 978-0764547973 | Publication Date: February 15, 2001 | Edition: 2

This shop manual for installing, configuring and troubleshooting Red Hat Linux 7.0 is written for the experienced network administrator and is designed to provide "just in time" instructions for solving immediate, specific problems.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Administrator's Handbooks function as working tools. They cover essential tasks and information and are written for the intermediate-level practicing network administrator who is familiar with networking technologies. The books are streamlined for in-the-trenches use, and succinctness is the key defining quality. The purpose of these books is to assist the network administrator in installing and maintaining a specific product. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Red Hat(r) Linux(r) Administrator's Handbook 2nd Edition On-the-Job Red Hat Linux Solutions Your company wants you to fix those network bottlenecks - immediately. Sound familiar? Red Hat Linux Administrator's Handbook, 2nd Edition, is the book that will bail you out - a one-stop nuts-and-bolts reference, now updated for Red Hat Linux 7, that puts real-world solutions at your fingertips. Superbly organized and packed with crystal-clear action steps, it's the one book you'll carry around and consult every day. Your One-Stop Guide to:
* Installation and basic configuration
* Boot up and shutdown configuration
* File permissions
* Using linuxconf
* User administration
* Process administration
* Network administration
* DNS service
* E-mail service
* FTP service
* Sharing files and printers with Samba
* Web service using Apache
* Using NFS file servers
* Configuring X Window
* Security
* Network security
* Customizing the kernel
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Product Details

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764547976
• ISBN-13: 978-0764547973
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,128,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mohammed Junayed Kabir (prefers to be called Kabir) was born in Bangladesh in 1971. He came to Sacramento, CA in 1990 to study computer engineering and has been living in Sacramento since then. His first book CGI Primer was written in 1995 and published in 1996. Kabir continued to write a dozen more books on Linux, Apache, MySQP/PHP, etc. over the last decade. He decided to stop writing technical books for publishers as he found the publishing process to be outdated and feels technical writing is best done in online format where changes, revisions and updates are up to speed with technologies that are written about.

Kabir is working on few new online titles: Virtual CIO for Small Business -- an online book to help small businesses make better technology decisions; The Software Company in a Box; Smart Sourcing Software for Small Companies -- a guide to help small businesses identify software needs, learn how to engage and manage small software projects using common sense tools and methodologies.

Kabir's company, EVOKNOW (short for Evolutionary Knowledge), focuses on building Web apps that help customers find initial user base and the kick-off buzz needed to launch new products and services. Kabir can be reached at [e-mail]

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paves the way to Linux guru-dom, December 11, 2000

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"jb4mt" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hat® Linux® Administrator's Handbook (Paperback)

This book not only tells you the things you can do to adminster your Red Hat Linux box (I actually use the book for Mandrake, based on Red Hat), but it tells you the things you SHOULD do. It also tells you about all the little utilities you can use instead of having to manually edit a bunch of scripts.

For instance, I learned how to use "ntsysv" to configure services, such as httpd, to run on start up. The book also devotes 25 of its 600 pages to user management, and another 100 to Apache administration, which are vital topics if you want to run Red Hat as a web server.

If you need just one book on Red Hat Linux admistration (NOT installation), at this price, and based on reviews I've seen on other such books on this site, this book is far and away the best value.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what the author said..., May 31, 2000

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avlight "avlight" (NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hat® Linux® Administrator's Handbook (Paperback)

Nuts and bolts information only. No frills, no fluff nor are there tutorials that are so unrealistic to real world applications. The author does an excellent job of getting to the point and explaining features of Red Hat 6.1 quickly and concisely. Usually, the Red Hat webpage has the answers to most questions when you can filter out the useless fluff to find the information you need. Since searching Red Hat's webpage for answers to your questions now yields more useless discussion forum questions of someone who wants to install the latest peripherials on yesterday's hardware, yesterday's kernel, and yesterday's Red Hat version 2 than meat to solve problems at hand, I bought this book to be quicker and more efficent to find the information I need to use for daily administration of the Red Hat servers I maintain at work to keep co-workers, management, and customer's happy.

Even though this book talks about the X-Windows, the author discusses how to do all features and functions in text / prompt mode which is good for those like me who do not use X windows in order to get more hard drive space and faster CPU performance. A little DOS / Unix experience is recomended and makes this book even more powewrful as a reference tool. But if you are getting started, this book, along with Red Hat's webpage and the ability to filter out fluff at Red Hat's search engine, will help you understand and work Red Hat Linux.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intermediate to Advanced / Solid Book, August 30, 2001

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Gene Ballard "wolfix" (Destin, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hat Linux Administrator's Handbook (Paperback)

If your running RH7 or you already know how to move around and edit files in linux, this will be a good book.
However, I have determined that it is impossible to have "the know all" book on linux admin. The subject is just too large for one book. This book will come in useful for its purpose, administering a RH server. But to cover it all you must buy other books like The UNIX System Administration Handbook, A good Sendmail book, a good Apache Server book (I don't recommend O'Reilly's Definite Guide). You will also need a good Linux security book and some sort of command line reference book like O'Reilly's "Linux in a Nutshell".
If you are a beginner, you will need this book and eventually all the others I have mentioned, but you MUST have another book to help you along. If Coriolis ever publishes an up to date RH7 version of "Setting Up a Linux Internet Server Visual Black Book", then it would make a great pair. Even the old version of the Visual Black Book will still help the beginner just fine but it's always good to have the latest.
Linux is free but learning it will cost you. Go ahead and get the book then go get all the other books.