Overview
Main description
Deploy and manage a Linux server quickly and easily
Thoroughly revised to cover the most current Linux distributions and the latest Linux kernel release, Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide, Sixth Edition shows new and inexperienced Linux system administrators how to set up and configure Linux. The sixth edition adds key updates about the latest Linux distributions and focuses on Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. The book adds coverage of newer technologies, including virtualization, infrastructure services, Windows and Linux integration, Linux routers and firewalls, LDAP, printing, and new hardware now supported by the updated Linux kernel.
This trusted, bestselling beginner’s guide continues its recipe and step-by-step approach to Linux system administration, including managing files and software, users and user rights, basic security, Internet and intranet services, and kernel customization. The book makes it easy for existing system administrators to quickly zero in on relevant sections of the book to solve or tackle real-world Linux administration issues.
Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide, Sixth Edition
- Covers the major distributions of Linux server for Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu, and the latest Linux kernel release
- Includes new chapters introducing Distributed File Systems—key for today's cloud computing/virtualization-centric world
- Contains a new chapter on the business case for Linux and the marketability of Linux administration skills
Step-by-step coverage:
Technical Summary of Linux Distributions and Windows Server 2008; Installing Linux in a Server Configuration; Installing Software; Single Host Administration; Managing Users; The Command Line; Booting and Shutting Down; File Systems; Core System Services; Compiling the Linux Kernel; Knobs and Dials: The /proc File System; Security and Networking; TCP/IP for System Administrators; Network Configuration; Configuring the Linux Firewall and Router; Local Security; Network Security; Configuring Internet Services; DNS; FTP; Web Servers; SMTP; POP and IMAP; SSH and Encryption; Virtualization; Configuring Intranet Services; Network File Systems (NFS); Distributed File Systems; Network Information Service (NIS); LDAP; Samba (SMB/CIFS); Printing; DHCP; Backups
Table of contents
Part 1: Linux Administration Essentials
Ch 1: Technical Summary of Linux Distributions and Windows Server 2008
Ch 2: Installing Linux in a Server Configuration
Ch 3: Installing Software
Part 2: Single Host Administration
Ch 4: Managing Users
Ch 5: The Command Line
Ch 6: Booting and Shutting Down
Ch 7: File Systems
Ch 8: Core System Services
Ch 9: Compiling the Linux Kernel
Ch 10: Knobs and Dials: The /proc File System
Part 3: Security and Networking
Ch 11: TCP/IP for System Administrators
Ch 12: Network Configuration
Ch 13: Configuring the Linux Firewall and Router
Ch 14: Local Security
Ch 15: Network Security
Part 4: Configuring Internet Services
Ch 16: DNS
Ch 17: FTP
Ch 18: Web Servers
Ch 19: SMTP
Ch 20: POP and IMAP
Ch 21: SSH and Encryption
Ch 22: Virtualization
Part 5: Configuring Intranet Services
Ch 23: Network File Systems (NFS)
Ch 24: Distributed File Systems
Ch 25: Network Information Service (NIS)
Ch 26: LDAP
Ch 27: Samba (SMB/CIFS)
Ch 28: Printing
Ch 29: DHCP
Ch 30: Backups
Author comments
Wale Soyinka is an IT systems/network/security consultant with many years of experience in the field. He helps businesses secure and integrate wireless networks in the enterprise. Wale is the author of previous editions of Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide.
