Hi John, On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 20:54 -0500, John Best wrote:
All, Looking for some good reference/administration books for Fedora FC4 or other General Fedora Info. I find I can hack my way through most problems, but the MAN pages are very poor at providing education on what features or tools are available and how to get started with them.
Here are a few:
Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4 Bible, by Chris Negus (just hitting bookstores) Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, by Mark Sobell Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed, by Hudson, Hudson, Ball and Duff
IMHO, the Bible keeps up better with the latest information. Sobell did a nice job, but it's based on FC2. Haven't seen FC4 Unleashed yet. (Disclaimer: I wrote the first one so my opinions may be biased.)
Things I want to find out/become better educated... SELinux - how to configure/administrate. (I think I have some inet services - portmapper/others that start but error out - see errors on boot - that I would like to correct correctly.
Bible has a chapter on SELinux. Could be deeper, but a good start. Not covered in the other two books.
Admin web and related services like mysql, webserver, mail server, firewall, etc.
All covered in the Bible. No real coverage on firewalls in Unleashed. Good coverage in Sobell's book.
Understand and can use logging - Where are the logs, how to monitor the logs, how to log more/less..
Fedora dropped system-logviewer in FC4. Bible added coverage of logwatch. Otherwise, page through files in /var/log, I guess.
How to configure the gnome/kde menus/start menus, etc (This to me is the most frustrating and difficult activity I have tried to hack through.)
For GNOME, copy and edit a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. For KDE, right-click the panel->Configure Panel->Menus->Edit K Menu. (There, now you don't have to buy a book. ;-) )
-- Chris Negus