Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed

This comprehensive guide can help you administer Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 effectively in any production environment, no matter how complex
or challenging.

Long-time Red Hat insider Tammy Fox brings together today's best
practices for the entire system lifecycle, from planning and deployment
through maintenance and troubleshooting. Fox shows how to maximize your
efficiency and effectiveness by automating day-to-day maintenance
through scripting, deploying security updates via Red Hat Network,
implementing central identity management services, and providing shared
data with NFS and Samba.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed contains extensive
coverage of network and web services, from the Apache HTTP server and
Sendmail email services to remote login with OpenSSH. Fox also describes
Red Hat's most valuable tools for monitoring and optimization and
presents thorough coverage of security-including a detailed introduction
to Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

- Streamline deployment with Kickstart
- Find, install, update, remove, and verify software
- Detect, analyze, and manage hardware
- Manage storage with LVM, RAID, ACLs, and quotas
- Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on 64-bit and multi-core systems
- Administer users and groups more efficiently and securely
- Ensure trustworthy backup and rapid recovery
- Script and schedule tasks to run automatically
- Provide unified identity management services
- Configure Apache, BIND, Samba, and Sendmail
- Monitor and tune the kernel and individual applications
- Protect against intruders with SELinux and ExecShield
- Set up firewalls with iptables
- Enable the Linux Auditing System
- Use virtualization to run multiple operating systems concurrently

Tammy Fox served as technical leader of Red Hat's documentation group,
where she wrote and revised The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System
Administration Guide. She was founding editor of Red Hat Magazine, now
an online publication reaching more than 800,000 system administrators
and others interested in Linux and open source. She wrote Red Hat's
LogViewer tool and has written and contributed to several Red Hat
configuration tools. Fox is also the founding leader of the Fedora Docs
Project.
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