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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Negus
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:51 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Good LINUX/ Fedora Reference Books????
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. ;-) )
6 - 8 weeks until my copy arrives :(
It must be being shipped from the US..
Thanks for the recommendations...
Regards
Chris