Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux

What is this book about?

Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is a complete professional guide to setting up, configuring, and deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the corporate production environment. The book focuses on Enterprise Server and Advanced Server features, including the key areas of high availability with the Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network Control Center, and Red Hat Enterprise applications such as the Content Management System and portal server. Other key unique features include kernel tuning for various performance profiles; advanced Apache configuration; Tux installation/maintenance; building high-performance FTP servers; building high-performance mail servers (which means replacing Sendmail); Mailing list management; how to efficiently add, remove, or modify 100 users at the same time; and a discussion of disk quota management and monitoring.

What does this book cover?

The key features of the book include the following:

How to install and setup RHEL 3
How to deploy RHEL 3 in production environment
How to manage an RHEL system using Perl and shell scripting
Advanced administration tools
How to use Red Hat network service
Details on installation and setup of security tools
Ability to use and deploy High Availability solutions provided with RHEL 3
Performance tuning
How to use monitoring tools
Ability to use RHEL to provide scalable infrastructure solutions.

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Title of ebook: Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ISBN: 9780764578595
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Internet download file size: 9715 kb
Pages: 744
Released online for download: 02-25-2005
Author of eBook: Sharma, Kapil
Author of eBook: Kabir, Mohammed J.
Author of eBook: Norton, Peter C.

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Chapter One

RHEL 3 Basics

This chapter discusses some of the basics of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (RHEL 3). RHEL 3 is an enterprise-class Linux distribution that provides security, stability, and may different choices in tools and applications.

The basics of using RHEL 3 includes doing such tasks as file and user management. These tasks will be crucial in the day-to-day use and maintenance of RHEL 3. Other tasks, such as listing the running processes and available resources, are important in keeping a system running once it has been set up and configured.

The topics discussed in this chapter are:

How to use nested desktop sessions

How to use GConf

Virtual terminals and applications used for GUI terminals when using the desktop

* Basic overview of the shells installed with RHEL 3 and coverage of some of the features and topics that will be used later in this chapter

* The configuration of hardware, including detecting hardware and running utilities to use kernel modules for hardw ... read full excerpt from Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux ebook

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