Running Linux, 5th Edition - Matthias Kalle Dalheimer [6]
Shows you the fundamental building blocks of security on Linux: managing users and access rights (permissions).
Chapter 12, Installing, Updating, and Compiling Programs
Covers system updates, which are important both to get new features and applications and to fix security flaws.
Chapter 13, Networking
Is a basic introduction to networking, which is usually set up during installation but is worth understanding at a deeper level. The chapter shows you how to configure your system so that it can work on a local area network or communicate with an Internet service provider using Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). ISDN and ADSL are also covered.
Chapter 14, Printing
Shows you how to get Linux to recognize printers and to manage document printing.
Chapter 15, File Sharing
Covers file sharing, with a particular focus on Samba, which allows both file and printer sharing with Windows systems.
Chapter 16, The X Window System
Shows you how to configure the X Window System, which underlies the desktops introduced in Chapter 3. We show you how to overcome problems you might encounter when your distribution installs the software and how to configure it for the best performance on your video hardware.
Chapter 17, System Start and Shutdown
Covers system startup and shutdown. Topics include the GRUB bootloader, which lets you choose between operating systems at startup time, and how to get the right services going.
Chapter 18, Configuring and Building the Kernel
Explains how to update the kernel and its modules, which may be necessary to run new Linux features or get drivers installed for your hardware.
Part III of the book, "Programming," starts exploring interesting advanced topics that make Linux a powerful asset, such as programming.
Chapter 19, Text Editing
Offers in-depth tutorials on vi and Emacs, valuable text editors. Covers text processing, an alternative to using word processors to format text documents.
Chapter 20, Text Processing
Describes tools for producing formatted documents from markup languages, including XML and the older languages TEX, troff, and Texinfo.
Chapter 21, Programming Tools
Is a wide-ranging introduction to programming on Linux, introducing a number of languages, as well as tools that you may find it useful to understand even if you are not a programmer.
Part IV of the book, "Network Services," introduces several services and other advanced networking activities.
Chapter 22, Running a Web Server
Shows you how to set up and configure Apache, the most popular web server in the world.
Chapter 23, Transporting and Handling Email Messages
Covers the easy-to-use Postfix mail server and some other useful mail tools, such as SpamAssassin.
Chapter 24, Running an FTP Server
Shows a secure way to offer files for download.
Chapter 25, Running Web Applications with MySQL and PHP
Covers the M and P in the well-known acronym LAMP, introducing the basic configuration and use of MySQL and PHP for use with Apache.
Chapter 26, Running a Secure System
Covers the ProFTPD web server, which is convenient for serving documents to colleagues or the general public.
Chapter 27, Backup and Recovery
Basic techniques for the critical task of safeguarding your data.
Chapter 28, Heterogeneous Networking and Running Windows Programs
A wealth of ways to get the best out of two diffferent environments.
Appendix, Sources of Linux Information
Tells you about useful online documentation for Linux and other sources of help.
Conventions Used in This Book
The following is a list of the typographical conventions used in this book:
Italic
Is used for file and directory names, command names, command-line options, email addresses and pathnames, usernames, hostnames, site names, and all new terms.
Constant Width
Is used in examples to show the contents of files or the output from commands, to indicate environment variables and keywords that appear in code, and for Emacs commands.
Constant Width Bold
Is used in examples