... covered is the RedHat Network, a subscription serviceavailable with RedHat Enterprise Linux that you can use to keep your system current. You can register your systems with RedHat and then ... mainframes. Linux in general, Fedora Core 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in particular, are very powerful operating systemsthat can be used at the enterprise level as a full-fledged server. Linux ... Wewant to emphasize that this book is useful for users of Fedora Core, the opensource community–based Linux project supported by Red Hat, as well as usersof RedHat Enterprise Linux. Prefaceix02_599496...
... subscribe to the RedHatLinux security mailing list? (Find it atwww.redhat.com/mailing-lists /linux- security/index.html.)Have you established a procedure that makes sure that every security ... whatever came on the com-puter, assuming that things came properly configured from the factory. Theuser or enterprise that decides on Linux has decided, also, to assume the con-trol that Linux ... Luckily for you, RedHat has created the Red Hat Network, a program intended to help keep your system updated with thelatest security updates.CROSS-REFERENCE Learn how to use the RedHat Network...
... RedHat boot disk starts your PC and the RedHatLinux installationprogram. After you install RedHat Linux, you no longer need the Red Hat boot disk (except when you want to reinstall RedHat ... installation section.Creating the RedHat Boot DiskTo boot RedHatLinux for the first time and start the RedHatLinux installa-tion program, you need a RedHat boot disk. For this step, you ... reinstall RedHatLinux from theCD-ROMs).The RedHat boot disk contains an initial version of the RedHat Linux installation program that you use to start RedHat Enterprise Linux, preparethe...
... ordeselect that package group.TIP In an actual RedHatLinux installation, you install exactly those packagegroups that you need. Each package group requires specific packages to run.The RedHat installation ... PC. Atable then liststhe Linux partition and any other partitions that may contain another operating system. If your system has a Linux partition and a DOS partition (that actuallyhas Windows ... default operating system. Thedefault operating system is the one with a check mark in the Default columnin Figure 3-10. In this case, RedHatLinux is the default operating system. All of the...
... configure aDHCP server. See Chapter 11 for details about configuring a DHCP server. SummaryIn this chapter, you learned about installing Fedora Core and RedHat Enter-prise Linux using the ... the system volume, use the utility here.■■ System Settings — This menu item contains Enterprise Linux system administration utilities and some GNOME configuration utilities as well.■■ System ... the folder that con-tains the system mount point for the CD-R drive. Double-clickingthis icon displays the contents of the CD-ROM disk that youinserted in the CD-R drive.■■ Filesystem — This...
... atthe file system structure are the file system commands, essential to proper file system management. In addition to the native Linux file system, Fedora Coreand RedHat Enterprise Linux support ... Configuration All RedHat systems, whether Fedora Core or Enterprise Linux, use a similarprocedure for starting up the operating system. As the system boots, the oper-ating system loads programs ... typical Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux system. 142 Chapter 712_599496 ch07.qxd 8/30/05 6:45 PM Page 142 141The File System ExplainedIN THIS CHAPTER■■ Understanding the File System Structure■■...
... handy since it reduces system administrationtime. This is a fast file system, and now you can read and write to and from itwith your RedHatLinux machine. Nonstandard Linux File SystemsSupport ... written andconfigured by RedHat and RedHat administration tools as well as files con-taining variable settings used by system startup scripts. /etc/sysconfigcontains both system and networking ... more important system configuration files on your RedHat system. Systemwide Shell Configuration ScriptsThese files determine the default environment settings of system shells andwhat functions...
... directory should be edited by hand. For more informa-tion on RedHat Network, see the RedHat Network Web site at https://rhn.redhat.com.Examining the Network Configuration FilesThis section ... /etc/sysconfigdirectoryFiles to Change When Setting Up a System or Moving the System Whenever you set up a system to work on a new network, either because you’vejust installed RedHat or you’re moving the machine from ... use it. APM is a monitoring daemon that works with power man-agement code within the Linux kernel. It can alert you to a low battery if youare using RedHatLinux on a laptop, among other things.Figure...
... example, a printerattached to another RedHatLinuxsystem on your network). If youchoose this type of queue, you need to enter the server name and pathto the server, as shown in Figure 10-6.Figure ... Window System 211file that was created during system installation. A description of the section ofthe file follows the file.# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86Section “ServerLayout”Identifier ... Enterprise Linux also give you similar features.Configuring the X Server with the X Configuration ToolYou have basically two ways to configure the X server on your Fedora Core orEnterprise Linux system. ...
... and RedHat Enterprise Linux systems, the /etc/exportsfile is the main NFS configuration file. It lists the file systems the server exports, the systems permitted to mount the exported file systems, ... mp. If set, the NFS server will notexport a file system unless that file system is actually mounted on the server. The reasoning behind this option is that a disk or file system containing anNFS ... Services Configuration Tool (Red Hat ➪ System Settings ➪ Server Settings ➪ Services on Fedora Core and Applica-tions ➪ System Settings ➪ Server Settings ➪ Services on RHEL); system- config-services...
... administered repository for infor-mation shared across the network using NIS. NIS clients are programs that useNIS to query designated servers for information that is stored in the servers’databases, ... ancient server running RedHatLinux 6.2(we told you it was ancient). We kept getting an error indicating the server wasdown when we knew it wasn’t. Finally, we logged into the server, discoveredit ... servers, you need to make surethat they can successfully communicate with the master server. From eachslave server, make sure that the command ypwhich -m works, which meansthat the slave servers...
... connect Linux networks to Windows networks.You installed and configured Samba on a RedHat Enterprise Linuxserver andconfigured the Windows clients. You also learned how to configure your Red Hat ... configure Fedora Core and RedHat Enterprise Linux systems as NIS servers and clients. You first learned how to set up andtest an NIS server and how to ensure that the NIS server comes up after ... Novell NetworksWith RedHat Enterprise Linux, you can easily configure your system to con-nect to Novell Netware servers. In this section, you learn how to configureyour RedHatsystem to be a Novell...
... PM Page 354 Summary Linux- based database servers are becoming as ubiquitous as Linux- based Weband email servers, so it is likely that you will need to create a database server at some point. ... the server is running and responding to connections. For example, the followingmysqladmin command shows the server version:$ mysqladmin versionmysqladmin Ver 8.23 Distrib 3.23.58, for redhat -linux- gnu ... software.Setting Up a VNC Server In this context, a VNC server is the machine you want to access remotely. So, ifyou’re at home and want to connect to the Linuxsystem on your desk at work,the system at work...
... cut by a backhoe,say), access to that time server will be impaired. NTP is engineered to select analternative server, but if all your servers use that same severed backbone,you’re hosed. So, ... the servers. NTP isalso hierarchical and organizes time servers into several strata to reduce theload on any given server or set of servers. Stratum 1 servers are referred to asprimary servers, ... 2 servers as secondary servers, and so on. There are farmore secondary servers than primary servers. Secondary servers sync to pri-mary servers, and clients sync to secondary or tertiary servers.NTP...
... Web server ■■ sshd — SSH server ■■ sendmail — Mail server ■■ qmail — Mail server ■■ postfix — Mail server ■■ thttpd — Semilightweight Web server ■■ boa — Lightweight Web server ■■ named — DNS server ■■ ... popular.Using Your Linux Machine as a Server The following sections give you an overview of what common server proto-cols are available on Linux. HTTPThe most common Web server used on Linux is Apache. ... chat) server ■■ rsync — Remote file transfer protocol■■ telnet — Telnet server ■■ wu-ftpd — An FTP server ■■ daytime — Gives you the time over TCP■■ eklogin — Encrypting kerberized rlogin server ■■...