Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Edition 2
Copyright © 2008 Red Hat, Inc
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Abstract
The System Administrator's Guide documents relevant information regarding the deployment, configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. It is oriented towards system administrators with a basic understanding of the system.
- Introduction
- I. Installation-Related Information
- 1. Kickstart Installations
- 1.1. What are Kickstart Installations?
- 1.2. How Do You Perform a Kickstart Installation?
- 1.3. Creating the Kickstart File
- 1.4. Kickstart Options
- 1.5. Package Selection
- 1.6. Pre-installation Script
- 1.7. Post-installation Script
- 1.8. Making the Kickstart File Available
- 1.9. Making the Installation Tree Available
- 1.10. Starting a Kickstart Installation
- 2. Kickstart Configurator
- 3. PXE Network Installations
- 4. Diskless Environments
- 5. Basic System Recovery
- II. File Systems
- 6. The ext3 File System
- 7. Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- 8. LVM Configuration
- 9. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
- 10. Software RAID Configuration
- 11. Swap Space
- 12. Managing Disk Storage
- 13. Implementing Disk Quotas
- 14. Access Control Lists
- III. Package Management
- IV. Network-Related Configuration
- 17. Network Configuration
- 17.1. Overview
- 17.2. Establishing an Ethernet Connection
- 17.3. Establishing an ISDN Connection
- 17.4. Establishing a Modem Connection
- 17.5. Establishing an xDSL Connection
- 17.6. Establishing a Token Ring Connection
- 17.7. Establishing a Wireless Connection
- 17.8. Managing DNS Settings
- 17.9. Managing Hosts
- 17.10. Working with Profiles
- 17.11. Device Aliases
- 17.12. Saving and Restoring the Network Configuration
- 18. Firewalls
- 19. Controlling Access to Services
- 20. OpenSSH
- 21. Network File System (NFS)
- 22. Samba
- 23. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- 24. Apache HTTP Server Configuration
- 25. Apache HTTP Secure Server Configuration
- 25.1. Introduction
- 25.2. An Overview of Security-Related Packages
- 25.3. An Overview of Certificates and Security
- 25.4. Using Pre-Existing Keys and Certificates
- 25.5. Types of Certificates
- 25.6. Generating a Key
- 25.7. Generating a Certificate Request to Send to a CA
- 25.8. Creating a Self-Signed Certificate
- 25.9. Testing The Certificate
- 25.10. Accessing The Server
- 25.11. Additional Resources
- 26. Authentication Configuration
- V. System Configuration
- 27. Console Access
- 28. Date and Time Configuration
- 29. Keyboard Configuration
- 30. Mouse Configuration
- 31. X Window System Configuration
- 32. Users and Groups
- 33. Printer Configuration
- 34. Automated Tasks
- 35. Log Files
- 36. Manually Upgrading the Kernel
- 37. Kernel Modules
- 38. Mail Transport Agent (MTA) Configuration
- VI. System Monitoring
- VII. Appendix
- Index