knowledge you need to master Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux & succeed in the real world. Best-selling author Mark Sobell explains Linux clearly & effectively, focusing on skills you'll use as a user, programmer, or administrator. Sobell assumes no prior Linux knowledge. He starts at the beginning & walks you through every essential topic & task with easy-to-understand examples. Learn how to install & configure Linux with the DVD, navigate its graphical user interface, provide file/print sharing, configure network servers, secure Linux desktops and networks, work with the command line, administer Linux efficiently, & automate administration with Perl scripts. Sobell has taught hundreds of thousands of Linux & UNIX professionals & never forgets what it's like to be a newbie. This book delivers complete, updated coverage of Fedora 15 & RHEL 6 State-of-the-art security techniques, including up-to-date firewall setup techniques using system-config-firewall & iptables, & a full chapter on OpenSSH (ssh) Coverage of crucial topics such as using su & sudo, & working with systemd init daemon. Comprehensive coverage of the command line & key system GUI tools More practical coverage of file sharing using Samba, NFS, and FTP. Superior coverage of automating administration with Perl Usable, realistic coverage of Internet server configuration, including Apache (Web), sendmail, NFSv4, DNS/BIND, & LDAP, plus IPv6Coverage of system/network administration tasks, including network monitoring with Cacti Deep coverage of essential administration tasks-from managing users to CUPS printing, configuring LANs to building a kernel. Complete instructions on keeping Linux systems up-to-date using yum Includes a 500+ term glossary & comprehensive indexes. Includes DVD.

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