Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed blends step-by-step instructions with just enough conceptual knowledge to help RHEL 5 administrators on a daily basis. Why another Linux book you might ask? I have been writing about Linux for years and reading Linux books for longer. When I first started learning Linux, I was frustrated with the lack of detail in most books. I would look up a topic, read all the theory and conceptual sections, and then turn the page expecting to see the actual instructions for implementing what I had read about. To my disappointment, most books didn’t give these instructions. If there were instructions, they were overview steps without examples to guide me along the way, and steps were often not explained adequately.
So, I finally decided to write the Linux book I always wanted while learning Linux system administration. After a year and a half, here it is. Hopefully you will learn from it and use it as a reference from time to time. If you have any suggestions on how to make it even better, please don’t hesitate to email me at tfox+rhel5book at linuxheadquarters.com.
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What This Book Covers
The book is divided into six parts: Installation and Configuration, Operating System Core Concepts, System Administration, Network Services, Monitoring and Tuning, and Security.
Topics covered include
- Installing on a single system or on multiple systems simultaneously with Kickstart
- Installing, updating, and removing software with YUM and Red Hat Network
- Navigating the Filesystem from the command line
- Managing storage with partitions, LVM, and RAID
- Using access control lists and disk quotas
- Managing users and groups efficiently
- Performing backups and rapid recovery
- Automating tasks with scripts and scheduling them with cron
- Setting up unified identity management services
- Administering network services for file sharing, network connectivity, an secure remote login
- Monitoring and tuning system resources, the kernel, and applications
- Protecting against security vulnerabilities with SELinux and ExecShield
- Setting up a firewall with IPTables
- Customing the Linux Auditing System
- Running multiple operating systems concurrently with Virtualization
About the Author
Tammy Fox has over 7 years of experience as a Linux professional writer and 5 years engineering experience on the Red Hat team. As the technical and team lead of the documentation group for Red Hat, she wrote and revised the Red Hat Enterprise System Administration Guide. She is the founding editor of Red Hat Magazine, an online publication targeted at system administrators and those interested in Linux and Open Source, which has over 800,000 subscribers. She also founded the Fedora Documentation Project.
