Red Hat Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide

Steve Shah (Riverside, CA) has been a UNIX systems/network administrator since 1992 and a programmer since 1986. Currently, he is responsible for administering five variants of UNIX and three variants of Windows NT. He has been working with Linux since version 1.09 (1994) and has administered Linux workstations since 1996. Steve has contributed as an author of several publications including Unix Unleashed (Editions 1-3), Red Hat Linux Unleased (Editions 2-3), and Using Unix, 2nd Edition. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and Creative Writing and is graduating from the University of California, Riverside with an M.S. in Computer Science in 1999.

PART I: Installing Linux as a Server 1: Technical Summary of Linux Distributions and Windows 2: Installing Linux in a Server Configuration 3: GNOME and KDE 4: Installing Software PART II: Single-Host Administration 5: Managing Users 6: The Command Line 7: File Systems 8: Core System Services 9: Securing an Individual Server PART III: Internet Services 10: The Domain Name Service (DNS) 11: Transferring Files with FTP 12: Setting Up Your Web Server Using Apache 13: Sending Mail with SMTP 14: Using POP and IMAP for E-Mail Retrieval 15: The Secure Shell (SSH) PART IV: Intranet Services 16: Network File System (NFS) 17: Network Information Service (NIS) 18: Talking to Windows with Samba 19: Printing 20: Host Configuration with DHCP 21: Backups Appendix A