Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed

by Tammy Fox

This comprehensive guide can help you administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 effectively in any production environment, no matter how complex or challenging. Long-time Red Hat insider Tammy Fox brings... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672328925
• ISBN13: 9780672328923
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 597 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great book for the novice administrator

I have found this book to be great. I was familiar enough with Linux and yet always seemed to be scouring the internet for How To guides for setting up simple services like Samba Server, FTP services and so on. This book is basically a collection of those most common guides, the configuration of the various services is discussed in sufficient depth and the book is clearly written. It may not have the depth some people are looking for based on the reviews but it has been great for me. I feel like I understand whats going on with my CentOS boxes these days. I use this book in conjunction with CentOS 5.2 (Red Hat Enterprise clone).

A range of tips and applications essential to successful Red Hat strategies.

Advanced computer library holdings catering to programmers and professionals need Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed: it provides administrators with keys to using Red Hat in any production environment and comes from the technical leader of Red Hat's documentation group, so it's coming from a creator, not just a programmer. Best practices for the entire system lifecycle covers planning, deployment and troubleshooting and packs in a range of tips and applications essential to successful Red Hat strategies. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Slightly Off but good read

I have read about 3/4th of this book so far,most of it is mainly just review for me since the RHEL 5 release. I have noticed so far a few issues mainly with grammar, spelling, and multiple misguided instructions such as the PXE installation method, LDAP setup, and a few other minor things. Overall the book is my favorite linux related book since it gets right to the point and doesnt have all the boring history lessons about 15 years ago when service such and such was developed and how it is completely different etc etc. Any one who's read a linux related book knows what im talking about. In regards to the misguided instructions, for instance the PXE setup. I have gone through the chapter about 5 times now and slowly stepped through the documentation as it explains but still have yet to be able to get the correct outcome.(a working PXE installation). I have previous experience with PXE so I was able to figure this out on my own with no issue but worry that some new admins to RHEL will have a hard time getting this particular method of installation setup. I'm unfortunetly human so I still may have gotten the steps down wrong and other may find that the instructions are infact correct. If so ... cool. :) - runlevel -

looking forward...

This is a RHEL5 book that is looking forward, not back. You really shouldn't be using telnet in 2007 (except maybe to connect to some old equipment); X11 forwarding is covered in the chapter about OpenSSH. What's I'm excited about are the new features: NFSv4 (better security and static ports!), provisioning servers with RHN and kickstart, Oprofile, SELinux, auditd, etc. By the way, the author works for Red Hat and is very active in these technologies. I do wish there was less general linux information in this book since that is heavily covered by other excellect publications.