A text showing the average reader how to install and configure Linux correctly, how to maximize Linux's output, how to keep the system from developing bugs by using sound maintenance techniques, how to implement a strategy for backing up data and retrieving lost data, and more. Softcover.
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"Most Indispensable Linux Book"
—2001 Linux Journal Readers Choice Awards
The Craig Hunt Linux Library provides in-depth, advanced coverage of the key topics for Linux administrators. Topics include Samba, Network Servers, DNS Server Administration, Apache, Security, and Sendmail. Each book in the series is either written by or meticulously reviewed by Craig Hunt to ensure the highest quality and most complete coverage for networking professionals working specifically in Linux environments. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
—2001 Linux Journal Readers Choice Awards
Authoritative Answers to All Your Linux Questions
You can rely on the fully updated second edition of Linux System Administration for answers to all your questions about installing, configuring, and administering Linux. Written by two Linux experts, this book teaches you, step-by-step, all the standard and advanced techniques you need to know to set up and maintain a secure, effective Linux environment. Scores of clear, consistent examples illustrate these techniques in detail—so you stay on track and accomplish all your goals. Coverage includes:
- Installing a Linux server
- Setting up and maintaining user and group accounts
- Setting up Linux system security
- Sharing files using Samba and NFS
- Implementing a backup strategy
- Troubleshooting common Linux problems
- Setting up the X Window System
- Setting up TCP/IP and connecting to the Internet
- Setting up a mail server
- Maintaining filesystems and partitions
- Configuring printers
- Improving system performance
- Writing shell scripts
- Using Webmin for cross-distribution GUI administration
The Craig Hunt Linux Library provides in-depth, advanced coverage of the key topics for Linux administrators. Topics include Samba, Network Servers, DNS Server Administration, Apache, Security, and Sendmail. Each book in the series is either written by or meticulously reviewed by Craig Hunt to ensure the highest quality and most complete coverage for networking professionals working specifically in Linux environments. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author
Vicki Stanfield, RHCE, has worked with Linux since 1994 and Unix since 1980. She has administered many varieties of Unix, VMS, as well as Slackware and Red Hat Linux.
Roderick W. Smith is a Linux networking expert and author of several books, including Linux Samba Server Administration and the Linux+ Study Guide, both from Sybex. Craig Hunt is a Linux expert who lectures regularly at major networking trade shows. He serves as author and series editor for the Craig Hunt Linux Library. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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By John P. Hoke
Format:Paperback
This book is perfect for the person who has been tinkering with Linux long enought to have started outgrowing the GUI based tools that the distros are spoon feeding users with.
This book takes a reader who is ready to leave webmin or other "wizard" approaches behind and wants to take the bull (er... config files) by the horns and REALLY control their machines.
The vendor/distro neutral coverage is fair and even handed, giving time to both Redhat based distros as well as Debian.
If you are itching to stop having to point and click all over the place to change a line in a config file, and are ready to learn the faster, quicker, less error prone way... here you go!
Become an SA :)
By B. NEUMAN
Format:Paperback
This book is way too basic for anyone wanting to do anything other than just run linux. It is missing a lot that should be present, for example, setting up local caching nameservers. Perhaps this is because there are other books in the series on these topics, but if this is intended to provide a good overview, it needs to have some coverage.
I have found Advanced Linux Networking by Roderick Smith to be a better choice for information on managing linux systems.
By A. Valentine
Format:Paperback
Linux System Administration does a great job of covering a vast amount of Linux topics with just the right amount of detail for most users. This book appeals to a wide variety of readers, it is written in way that doesn't scare off newbies, but manages to have enough meat for experienced Linux users. The great thing about this book is it spends a fair amount of time explaining how to do things on a variety of distros.
Parts of the book that stand out in my mind are the chapters dealing with kernel recompilation, scripting and security. The kernel recompilation chapter is by far the best material I've seen on the subject to date, it almost makes kernel recompilation sound too easy. The security chapter is good starting point for sysadmins that are new to Linux. The book also provides a nice little introduction to scripting, although if your going to be a Linux sysadmin, the Orielly books on bash and perl are a must.
There were very few things that I didn't like about this book. One thing that stands out in my mind is the author's insistence on using paper journal books for logging system changes. With the proper backup procedures in place, a web based system log is a much more efficient way of keeping tracking of changes. Overall, the book is must read for anyone new to Linux and is also a good pickup for seasoned Linux users. I've been recommending this book over Running Linux as of late, since the Oreilly offering is showing its age.
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Linux Boot Process Clearly Explained
I haven't read the entire book, but if you need to understand the Linux boot process, then Chapter 5 makes the book worth it's cost. Read more
Published on April 16 2002
3.0 out of 5 stars
A honest book for Linux primers
This is a honest book for a Linux primer. It is simple and clear, but with some strange holes (p.e. nothing on ext2 fs attributes, or FTP). Read more
Published on April 15 2002
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Great Book!
This is the perfect book for someone who has a general understanding of Linux, but wants to know more about config files, the boot process and needs answers to questions that the... Read more
Published on Jan 26 2002 by S. Brown
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Keep going Vicki and Roderick! More, more more!
I like this book because it is filled clearly written, easy-to-read information that gives a Linux neophyte a solid grounding in all the most common types of sysadmin and end-user... Read more
Published on Jan 3 2002 by Erik Midtskogen
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid Book
Great book to get you started with Linux Admin. Covers many issues a sys admin is expected to know. However it doesn't cover ftp. It just mentions it. Read more
Published on Dec 21 2001 by Gene Ballard
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The new Linux System Administrator standard
I've been toying with Linux for the past 4 years now, but I've never had anything help me get serious enough with it until I came across this book. Read more
Published on Nov 13 2001 by Timothy Lee Young
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One of the Best
I have been working with Linux for about 2 years now and have a number of books on Linux administration. Read more
Published on Nov 10 2001 by Philip Washington
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A really good Linux primer.
This book is a really good Linux primer. It's not suitable for those looking for more Unix-in-general, which is good or bad depending on your needs. Read more
Published on Sep 12 2001 by OzzieBongz23
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Linux book bar none
I found this book to be a wealth of information. The authors were extremely knowledgeable and I especially liked the fact that they gave recommendations on what worked best for... Read more
Published on Aug 7 2001
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True Linux System Administration
One of my Unix lab professors once said that Unix was so vast that one lifetime is not enough to really get to master all aspects of it. Read more
Published on Jun 22 2001
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