... covered is the RedHat Network, a subscription service
available 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 systems
that can be used at the enterprise level as a full-fledged server. Linux ... We
want to emphasize that this book is useful for users of Fedora Core, the open
source community–based Linux project supported by Red Hat, as well as users
of RedHat Enterprise Linux.
Preface
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... subscribe to the RedHatLinux security mailing list? (Find it at
www.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. The
user 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 the
latest security updates.
CROSS-REFERENCE Learn how to use the RedHat Network...
... RedHat boot disk starts your PC and the RedHatLinux installation
program. 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 Disk
To 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 the
CD-ROMs).
The RedHat boot disk contains an initial version of the RedHat Linux
installation program that you use to start RedHat Enterprise Linux, prepare
the...
... or
deselect that package group.
TIP In an actual RedHatLinux installation, you install exactly those package
groups that you need. Each package group requires specific packages to run.
The RedHat installation ... PC. Atable then lists
the Linux partition and any other partitions that may contain another operating
system. If your system has a Linux partition and a DOS partition (that actually
has Windows ... default operating system. The
default operating system is the one with a check mark in the Default column
in Figure 3-10. In this case, RedHatLinux is the default operating system.
All of the...
... configure a
DHCP server. See Chapter 11 for details about configuring a DHCP server.
Summary
In 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-clicking
this icon displays the contents of the CD-ROM disk that you
inserted in the CD-R drive.
■■ Filesystem — This...
... at
the file system structure are the file system commands, essential to proper file
system management. In addition to the native Linux file system, Fedora Core
and RedHat Enterprise Linux support ... Configuration
All RedHat systems, whether Fedora Core or Enterprise Linux, use a similar
procedure for starting up the operating system. As the system boots, the oper-
ating system loads programs ... typical Fedora and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.
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The File System
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IN THIS CHAPTER
■■ Understanding the File System Structure
■■...
... handy since it reduces system administration
time. This is a fast file system, and now you can read and write to and from it
with your RedHatLinux machine.
Nonstandard Linux File Systems
Support ... written and
configured by RedHat and RedHat administration tools as well as files con-
taining variable settings used by system startup scripts. /etc/sysconfig
contains both system and networking ... more important system
configuration files on your RedHat system.
Systemwide Shell Configuration Scripts
These files determine the default environment settings of system shells and
what 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 Files
This section ... /etc/sysconfig
directory
Files 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’ve
just 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 you
are using RedHatLinux on a laptop, among other things.
Figure...
... example, a printer
attached to another RedHatLinuxsystem on your network). If you
choose this type of queue, you need to enter the server name and path
to the server, as shown in Figure 10-6.
Figure ... Window System 211
file that was created during system installation. A description of the section of
the file follows the file.
# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier ... Enterprise Linux also give you similar features.
Configuring the X Server with
the X Configuration Tool
You have basically two ways to configure the X server on your Fedora Core or
Enterprise Linux system. ...
... and RedHat Enterprise Linux systems, the /etc/exports
file 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 not
export 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 an
NFS ... 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 use
NIS 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 was
down when we knew it wasn’t. Finally, we logged into the server, discovered
it ... servers, you need to make sure
that they can successfully communicate with the master server. From each
slave server, make sure that the command ypwhich -m works, which means
that the slave servers...
... connect Linux networks to Windows networks.
You installed and configured Samba on a RedHat Enterprise Linuxserver and
configured 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 and
test an NIS server and how to ensure that the NIS server comes up after ... Novell Networks
With RedHat Enterprise Linux, you can easily configure your system to con-
nect to Novell Netware servers. In this section, you learn how to configure
your RedHatsystem to be a Novell...
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Summary
Linux- based database servers are becoming as ubiquitous as Linux- based Web
and 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 following
mysqladmin command shows the server version:
$ mysqladmin version
mysqladmin 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, if
you’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 an
alternative server, but if all your servers use that same severed backbone,
you’re hosed. So, ... the servers. NTP is
also hierarchical and organizes time servers into several strata to reduce the
load on any given server or set of servers. Stratum 1 servers are referred to as
primary servers, ... 2 servers as secondary servers, and so on. There are far
more 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.
HTTP
The 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
■■...