Good LINUX/ Fedora Reference Books????

[Chris Wright]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at 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