The SuSE Linux Server (With CD-ROMs) [Paperback]

Paul G. Sery (Author), Mohammed J. Kabir (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764547658 | ISBN-13: 978-0764547652 | Publication Date: January 15, 2000

The SuSE Linux Server demonstrates how to: master the ins and outs of Linux installation and configuration; Manage privileged and ordinary users, groups, and disk quotas; Control, monitor, prioritize, and automate programs using various tools; Set up DNS, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, FTP, IRC and SQL servers; Secure your server using firewalls and tools like Satan, Cops, etc.; Design a load-balanced, multi-server Apache-based Web network; Set up Samba and NFS fileserver for your office network.

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From the Back Cover

The SuSE^? Linux^? Server Written in collaboration with SuSE Inc., this unique guide shows you step-by-step how to deploy a SuSE Linux server, whether you work for a large organization or run your own small business. From installation and configuration to administration, Internet services, file- and printer-sharing, security, and performance tuning, two SuSE Linux experts walk you through all the most common server scenarios ? and explain how to build a secure, high-performance system from the ground up.

• Install and configure only the files you need
• Use YaST to set user privileges and administer your network
• Establish e-mail services with DNS, SMTP, and POP
• Connect to the Web using Apache server
• Set up FTP and Internet Relay Chat servers
• Share files and printers with Samba and NFS file server
• Build a SQL database server you can access from the Web
• Create firewalls and master other security tools
• Boost performance with a custom kernel
• Design a load-balanced, multiserver Web network

SuSE Linux on 2 CD-ROMs

• SuSE Linux 7.0 evaluation version
• Ftpchk
• Dumpxfer
• cgiwrap
• Ready-to-run ipfilter scripts

System Requirements Linux-compatible PC with hard drive, CD-ROM drive, and 3?" floppy drive. See Appendix A for details and complete system requirements. www.mandtbooks.com

About the Author

Paul G. Sery works for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he manages and troubleshoots UNIX and Linux systems. He has written other Linux books on networking and small business use. Mohammed J. Kabir is cofounder of Intevo, an e-application service provider, and the author of several other Linux books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764547658
• ISBN-13: 978-0764547652
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,998,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not SuSE Specific Enough, January 20, 2001

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T. S. Schulze (APO, AE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The SuSE Linux Server (With CD-ROMs) (Paperback)

First, I need to make clear that I have not read this book. I am currently trying to use SuSE's configuration files and packet filtering firewall script /sbin/SuSEfirewall to set up IP-masquerading and packet filtering on my four machine home network. The working solution has eluded me for about two weeks now. So, when I saw this book, I went straight to the index looking for SuSEfirewall. Nothing. There was a listing for ipchains, however, so I looked at that. In that section, there is no mention at all of SuSE specific tools for setting up packet filtering, just a discussion of ipchains rulesets which I could get for free from the IPCHAINS how-to at the Linux Documentation Project. The discussion of protecting the firewall from internal machines references the book "Red Hat Linux Network Administration". How SuSE specific is that?

Not wanting to pan this book on just this one issue alone, I looked for information on setting up printers (another issue that caused me some frustration in the past). The only mention I could find was in reference to setting up Samba so that Windows machines could use printers on a Linux server. That discussion was a page and half long. No mention of apsfilter or CUPS in the index.

Sections which mention using yast to set up a NIC and a network have screen shots, but these are so dark that I had to struggle to see what screen they were taken from. It would have been much better to print them in color, or to just describe them in words. The dark splotches on the screen just seem amateurish.

This book may have some good information in it, but I am not going to spend over $30 to find out. SuSE includes a manual with their distribution which is at least as good as this book, and although the distribution might be $15 to $20 more expensive, it also comes with more software.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BUY IT! IT'S A TRICK!, February 25, 2002

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"junglegeorge" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The SuSE Linux Server (With CD-ROMs) (Paperback)

Like several people before me said, it has typos and unreadable screenshots. But that's not the worst. Sure, you get some CDs with the book but don't think they are a distribution. They are an incomplete, butchered distribution for which the installation software was NOT modified and getting anything done - like installing - with this big piece of *&#$ is next to impossible. Maybe a Linux 'expert' could piece it back together but not a newbie or somebody learning. They call it an 'evaluation version' but it doesn't give you a chance to evaluate it.

The only way this book might be of use is if: a) you ALREADY have SuSE, and b) it has particular info you want. Since it commonly seems to take you to the edge of complete info and not get you there I would say there are probably better books to be had. Stay away from this junk.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where were the proof readers?, March 4, 2001

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Steven G. Stenbom (Kingston, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The SuSE Linux Server (With CD-ROMs) (Paperback)

This is without a doubt the worst book I have ever read. The screen captures are virtually unreadable, and the book is full of errors. Typos, technical errors, references to the wrong figures, references to lines in examples that were not there, etc. The errors became such a distraction that I ceased really being able to focus on the technical material in the book - such that it is. Syntax examples are in the wrong case, fonts are not used consistently to call out commands, programs, etc. Stupid stuff like periods missing from IP addresses, etc. that any proof reader should have caught. I quit reading it around page 214, and threw it away. I emailed the publisher, and their response after several days was, in so many words, "thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts." My email to SuSE came after only a few hours and was far more personal. Don't waste your money on this book. I'm really sorry that I did. And I'll be very very careful before I buy another book by this publisher. (I guess O'Reilly has spoiled me!)