Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is a fully supported, robust,
and easily managed system for enterprise use. This book
offers a complete professional guide to setting, configuring, and deploying RHEL 3 AS (Advanced Server), ES (Enterprise Server), and WS (Workstation) editions in the corporate production department.
You will begin with a complete overview and setup instructions for RHEL 3, then examine the Red Hat Network, improvements in the filesystem, and storage management, including ACL (Access Control List), RAID, and LVM. You will move on through High Availability products, an overview of Web, Email and Directory services, printing with CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) software, and file sharing with SAMBA and NFS. Finally, you’ll study security issues, scripting, and online resources for RHEL 3.
What you will learn from this book
- How to implement and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
for desktop, production servers, and mission-critical
applications
- Details of Red Hat Enterprise products, including Red Hat
Cluster Suite, Red Hat Content Management System, and
Red Hat Portal Server.
- Kernel tuning for various performance profiles
- Basic and advanced security policies and methods of
implementation
- How to use the Red Hat Network to keep your system
updated
- Efficient ways to add, remove, or modify dozens or
hundreds of users simultaneously
Chapter 1 RHEL 3 basics
Chapter 2 Using Red Hat network
Chapter 3 The file system
Chapter 4 Storage management
Chapter 5 High availability : ensuring you're always up
Chapter 6 Red Hat enterprise applications
Chapter 7 System administration
Chapter 8 Building Web server services
Chapter 9 Building remote access services
Chapter 10 Building print services
Chapter 11 Building file sharing services
Chapter 12 Building enterprise email services
Chapter 13 Building DNS & LDAP services
Chapter 14 Advanced system administration
Chapter 15 RHEL 3 security
Chapter 16 Managing your system with Perl and shell scripting
Chapter 17 Where to now?
Appendix A Installing RHEL 3