Linux System Administration Handbook

Linux System Administration Handbook

ISBN 0-13-680596-5 Price approximately £28 UK
Mark F. Komarinski and Cary Collet
23 Chapters and four appendices and index in 384 pages

Contents

Thanks and Acknowledgments

1    Introduction
2 Linux Boot and Shutdown
3 User Administration
4    Shells
5    Networking with Linux
6    Printing and Print Sharing
7    E-mail
8    Internet Agencies
9    Samba
10 NetNews
11 Setting Up FTP Services
12 Applications for Linux
13 Linux Database Software
14 Programming Languages
15 Web Serving
16 X Windowing System
17 Securing Linux
18 Kernel Administration
19 System Monitoring
20 Backing Up Your Data
21 Talking to Your Peripherals
22 Linux Distributions and Upgrading Your System
23 Connecting to the Internet

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D

Review

This particular volume is a good example of how Prentice-Hall have set out to give a full range of literature that will give the reader an insight into the world of Linux. There is a CD included with the book which offers Caldera Openlinux Lite. With the recent releases of KDE 2.1 and Ximian GNOME 1.4 it is beginning to fall behind with the times. However, the guts of the Linux operating system are explained and so it is still relevant.

The Linux System Administration Handbook is pretty much a standard guide to how to use Linux on your desktop and also as the general network administration tool for which is originally produced. If you haven't yet bought or read a book about Linux and you think that you should then this might well be the time to do it.

Review by Richard Ibbotson