Andrew Hudson, Paul Hudson0672329425, 978-0-672-32942-5
Table of contents :
Fedora 7 Unleashed……Page 1
Table of Contents……Page 6
Introduction……Page 32
Licensing……Page 33
What This Book Contains……Page 34
Conventions Used in This Book……Page 36
Part I: Installation and Configuration……Page 38
Before You Begin the Installation……Page 40
Choosing How to Install Fedora……Page 45
Step-by-Step Installation……Page 47
Logging In and Shutting Down……Page 69
Reference……Page 70
The Fedora Desktop……Page 72
Getting Around Fedora……Page 74
Available Applications……Page 77
Keeping Your Software Up To Date……Page 78
Configuring Wireless Networks……Page 80
3 Working with GNOME……Page 84
The GNOME Desktop Environment……Page 85
AIGLX—Eye Candy for the Masses……Page 87
Basic X Concepts……Page 88
Using X……Page 89
Starting X……Page 98
KDE—The Other Environment……Page 104
XFce……Page 105
Reference……Page 106
Understanding the Command Line……Page 108
Logging In to and Working with Linux……Page 119
Using the Text Editors……Page 124
Working with Permissions……Page 127
Working as Root……Page 133
Reading Documentation……Page 136
Reference……Page 138
Part II: Desktop Fedora……Page 140
Browsing the Internet……Page 142
Choosing an Email Client……Page 145
RSS Readers……Page 150
Instant Messaging with Pidgin……Page 152
Internet Relay Chat……Page 153
Usenet Network Newsgroups……Page 155
The Pan News Client Newsreader……Page 156
Videoconferencing with Ekiga……Page 158
Reference……Page 159
6 Productivity Applications……Page 160
What Is in OpenOffice.org?……Page 161
Office Suites for Fedora……Page 172
Productivity Applications Written for Microsoft Windows……Page 178
Reference……Page 179
Listening to Music……Page 180
Graphics Manipulation……Page 183
Using Digital Cameras with Fedora……Page 188
Burning CDs and DVDs in Fedora……Page 192
Sound and Music……Page 199
Viewing Video……Page 202
Reference……Page 208
Overview of Fedora Printing……Page 210
Configuring and Managing Print Services……Page 212
Creating and Configuring Local Printers……Page 216
Reference……Page 222
Linux Gaming……Page 224
Installing Popular Games in Fedora……Page 226
KDEedu……Page 231
Playing Windows Games with Cedega……Page 232
Reference……Page 233
Part III: System Administration……Page 234
User Accounts……Page 236
Managing Groups……Page 241
Managing Users……Page 243
Managing Permissions……Page 246
Managing Passwords……Page 251
Granting System Administrator Privileges to Regular Users……Page 256
Disk Quotas……Page 260
Reference……Page 263
11 Automating Tasks……Page 264
Running Services at Bootup……Page 265
Troubleshooting Runlevel Problems……Page 278
Starting and Stopping Services Manually……Page 279
Scheduling Tasks……Page 280
Basic Shell Control……Page 285
Reference……Page 290
Console-Based Monitoring……Page 292
Using the kill Command to Control Processes……Page 294
Using Priority Scheduling and Control……Page 295
Displaying Free and Used Memory with free……Page 297
Graphical Process and System Management Tools……Page 298
Reference……Page 301
Choosing a Backup Strategy……Page 302
Choosing Backup Hardware and Media……Page 308
Using Backup Software……Page 311
Copying Files……Page 317
System Rescue……Page 320
Reference……Page 326
Using Network Configuration Tools……Page 328
Laying the Foundation: The localhost Interface……Page 338
Networking with TCP/IP……Page 340
Advanced Wireless Networking……Page 341
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol……Page 345
Beyond the Network and Onto the Internet……Page 351
Configuring Dial-Up Internet Access……Page 355
Troubleshooting Connection Problems……Page 362
Reference……Page 363
15 Remote Access with SSH……Page 366
Setting Up an SSH Server……Page 367
The SSH Tools……Page 368
Remote X……Page 372
References……Page 374
Why Virtualization Is a Smart Idea……Page 376
Virtualization Versus Paravirtualization……Page 377
Installing Xen……Page 378
Setting Up Guest Operating Systems……Page 379
Runtime Configuration……Page 380
Reference……Page 381
Part IV: Fedora As a Server……Page 382
About the Apache Web Server……Page 384
Installing the Apache Server……Page 386
Starting and Stopping Apache……Page 390
Graphic Interface Configuration of Apache……Page 395
Runtime Server Configuration Settings……Page 398
File System Authentication and Access Control……Page 403
Apache Modules……Page 408
Virtual Hosting……Page 413
Logging……Page 415
Reference……Page 417
18 Administering Database Services……Page 420
A Brief Review of Database Basics……Page 421
Choosing a Database: MySQL Versus PostgreSQL……Page 428
Configuring MySQL……Page 431
Configuring PostgreSQL……Page 434
Database Clients……Page 439
Reference……Page 445
Using the Network File System……Page 446
Putting Samba to Work……Page 450
Network and Remote Printing with Fedora……Page 462
Using the Common Unix Printing System GUI……Page 468
Console Print Control……Page 471
Avoiding Printer Support Problems……Page 473
Reference……Page 474
Choosing an FTP Server……Page 476
Installing FTP Software……Page 478
The FTP User……Page 479
xinetd Configuration for wu-ftpd……Page 481
Configuring the Very Secure FTP Server……Page 483
Configuring the wu-ftpd Server……Page 486
Using Commands in the ftpaccess File to Configure wu-ftpd……Page 487
Configuring FTP Server File-Conversion Actions……Page 499
Using ftphosts to Allow or Deny FTP Server Connection……Page 501
Using Commands for Server Administration……Page 502
Reference……Page 508
How Email Is Sent and Received……Page 510
Basic Sendmail Configuration and Operation……Page 515
Introducing Postfix……Page 520
Using Fetchmail to Retrieve Mail……Page 521
Choosing a Mail Delivery Agent……Page 526
Alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Server……Page 528
Reference……Page 530
What Is a Proxy Server?……Page 532
Configuring Clients……Page 533
Access Control Lists……Page 534
Specifying Client IP Addresses……Page 539
Sample Configurations……Page 540
Reference……Page 541
23 Managing DNS……Page 542
Configuring DNS for Clients……Page 543
Essential DNS Concepts……Page 547
Using DNS Tools……Page 549
Configuring a Local Caching Nameserver……Page 553
Providing DNS for a Real Domain with BIND……Page 555
Providing DNS for a Real Domain……Page 566
Troubleshooting DNS……Page 569
Managing DNS Security……Page 573
Reference……Page 580
24 LDAP……Page 582
Configuring the Server……Page 583
Configuring Clients……Page 588
Administration……Page 589
Reference……Page 590
Part V: Programming Linux……Page 592
Using Perl with Linux……Page 594
Perl Variables and Data Structures……Page 597
Operators……Page 599
Conditional Statements……Page 601
Looping……Page 603
Regular Expressions……Page 605
Access to the Shell……Page 606
Modules and CPAN……Page 607
Reference……Page 608
Python on Linux……Page 610
The Basics of Python……Page 612
Functions……Page 621
Object Orientation……Page 622
The Standard Library and the Vaults of Parnassus……Page 627
Reference……Page 628
Introduction to PHP……Page 630
Basic Functions……Page 646
Handling HTML Forms……Page 657
Reference……Page 658
Programming in C/C++ with Linux……Page 660
Using the C Programming Project Management Tools Provided with Fedora Linux……Page 661
Using the GNU C Compiler……Page 666
Graphical Development Tools……Page 667
Reference……Page 670
Why Use Mono?……Page 672
Mono on the Command Line……Page 673
Building on Mono’s libraries……Page 678
Reference……Page 682
Part VI: Fedora Housekeeping……Page 684
Understanding Computer Attacks……Page 686
Assessing Your Vulnerability……Page 688
Protecting Your Machine……Page 689
Viruses……Page 693
Configuring Your Firewall……Page 694
Forming a Disaster Recovery Plan……Page 695
Keeping Up-to-Date on Linux Security Issues……Page 696
Understanding SELinux……Page 697
Reference……Page 698
Hard Disk……Page 700
Kernel……Page 705
Apache……Page 706
MySQL……Page 707
Reference……Page 712
32 Command Line Masterclass……Page 714
Why Use the Shell?……Page 715
Basic Commands……Page 716
Combining Commands……Page 735
Multiple Terminals……Page 737
Date and Time……Page 739
Capturing Screen Images……Page 740
Reference……Page 741
33 Writing and Executing a Shell Script……Page 742
Running a Shell Program……Page 743
Interpreting Shell Scripts Through Specific Shells……Page 745
Using Variables in Shell Scripts……Page 746
Using a Simple Script to Automate Tasks……Page 749
Built-in Variables……Page 751
Special Characters……Page 752
Comparison of Expressions in pdksh and bash……Page 755
Special Statements: for, while, and Others……Page 760
Using Functions in Shell Scripts……Page 766
Reference……Page 767
Using RPM for Software Management……Page 768
Getting Started with yum……Page 775
Running yum Noninteractively……Page 777
Maintaining yum……Page 778
Using yum to Manage Package Inventory……Page 779
Configuring yum……Page 781
Using pirut for Software Management……Page 782
Using Yum Extender……Page 783
Creating a Local yum Repository……Page 784
Reference……Page 786
The Fedora File System Basics……Page 788
Working with the ext3 File System……Page 793
Other File Systems Available to Fedora……Page 796
Creating a File System……Page 798
Mounting File Systems……Page 806
Relocating a File System……Page 810
File System Manipulation……Page 812
Reference……Page 817
36 Kernel and Module Management……Page 818
The Linux Kernel……Page 819
Managing Modules……Page 823
When to Recompile……Page 825
Kernel Versions……Page 826
Obtaining the Kernel Sources……Page 827
Patching the Kernel……Page 828
Compiling the Kernel……Page 829
When Something Goes Wrong……Page 838
Reference……Page 840
Part VII: Appendices……Page 842
A: The History of Red Hat and Fedora……Page 844
What Is Fedora?……Page 846
Fedora for Business……Page 847
64-Bit Fedora……Page 849
Fedora on Multi-Core Machines……Page 850
B: Installation Resources……Page 852
Planning Your Fedora Deployment……Page 853
Hardware Requirements……Page 859
Preparing for the Install Process……Page 868
Partitioning Before and During Installation……Page 870
Using Fedora’s kickstart Installation Method…….Page 873
Reference……Page 876
C: Fedora and Linux Internet Resources……Page 878
Websites and Search Engines……Page 879
Usenet Newsgroups……Page 885
Mailing Lists……Page 887
Internet Relay Chat……Page 888
Index……Page 890
A……Page 891
B……Page 893
C……Page 895
D……Page 898
E……Page 901
F……Page 902
G……Page 904
H……Page 906
I……Page 907
K……Page 909
L……Page 910
M……Page 912
N……Page 915
O……Page 916
P……Page 917
R……Page 921
S……Page 923
T……Page 929
U……Page 930
V……Page 931
W……Page 932
X……Page 933
Z……Page 934
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