Editorials
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The Barnes & Noble ReviewThis is a serious book about running Red Hat Linux 7 as a server, in environments where efficiency and performance really matter.
By Chapter 3, while other books are telling you where to find KDEs version of Solitaire, Mohammed Kabir is walking you through the /etc/rc.d/ scripts that control system startup, and introducing Linux tools for managing runlevels.
He presents soup-to-nuts coverage of managing users, processes, and networks using both linuxconf and command line tools. Whether you want to assign disk quotas to your users, monitor processes and system loads, configure a network card, or deploy DNS, this book shows you how. You'll also find detailed coverage of every key Linux command sysadmins need to know, from cat and chfn to finger and whoami.
The second half of the book is dedicated to setting up Linux services, from FTP to Samba. Kabir civilizes sendmail configuration -- never an easy task. He's author of two books on Apache, so you'd expect his web services coverage to be excellent, and so it is. But, then, so is the whole book.(Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant and writer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.