Linux Administration
A Beginner's Guide
Published on 1. December 1999
Book
Mixed media product
640 pages
978-0-07-212229-9 (ISBN)
Description
This guide covers Linux kernel (2.2), with a focus on the release of the leading distribution Linux, Red Hat Linux 6.1, as well as coverage of the release of Caldera's OpenLinux 2.2 and SuSE Linux 6.0.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 185 mm
Weight
1180 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-212229-9 (9780072122299)
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Content
Section 1 Installing Linux as a server: technical summary of Linux distributions and Windows NT; installing Linux in a server configuration; configuring GNOME and KDE; installing software. Section 2 Single host administration: managing users; the UNIX command line; booting and shutting down; files systems; core system services; compiling the Linux Kernel; securing and individual server. Section 3 Internet services: DNS; FTP; HTTP; SMTP; OPO; SSH. Section 4 Intranet services: NFS; NIS; CIFS; LPD; DHCP; backups. Section 5 Advanced Linux networking: configuring network interface card (NIC); IP masquerading, proxies, and firewalls; the Linux router project; miscellaneous networking features.