Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration (Unleashed Series) by Tammy Fox, Paul Gampe (Foreword by)
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- Pub. Date: May 2007
- 597pp
- Sales Rank: 62,272
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 2007
- Publisher: Sams
- Format: Paperback, 597pp
- Sales Rank: 62,272
- Series: Unleashed Series
- ISBN-13: 9780672328923
- ISBN: 0672328925
Synopsis
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 unifiedidentity 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
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.
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Category: Linux/Networking
Covers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
User Level: Intermediate—Advanced
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Biography
Tammy Fox has been using Linux for programming, writing, system administration, and all day-to-day computer tasks for more than 10 years. From 2000 until 2005, she worked for Red Hat as a technical writer, team lead, programmer, build script maintainer, magazine editor, and marketing project manager. During her time in documentation, she created a new manual, the Red Hat Linux Customization Guide, which eventually became the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide. She also wrote and contributed to the Red Hat configuration tools, including writing Red Hat Logviewer. Before joining Red Hat, Tammy co-wrote and taught Linux integration and performance classes for a leading computer manufacturer. She has also been a computer consultant for leading computer communication companies.
Tammy has founded three efforts to continue the education of Linux users. She is the founding editor of Red Hat Magazine, which continues to be an online publication. She is also the founding leader of the Fedora Docs Project, acting as the organizer, a writer, and an editor. And she continues to provide free online content for new Linux users with her website linuxheadquarters.com, which was established with her husband in 2000.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration (Unleashed Series)by Anonymous
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September 26, 2008: There are too much stuff, to comprehend in short period of time. Not enough of practice examples. It was not useful in helping me prepare for my Red Hat Enterprise Certification Exam.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration (Unleashed Series)by Anonymous
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May 09, 2007: 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.
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