Linux Bible

Christopher Negus has been teaching and writing about Linux and UNIX for over 25 years. He's an instructor and principal technical writer for Red Hat, Inc., and the author of dozens of Linux and UNIX books, including every edition of the Red Hat Linux Bible, CentOS Bible, Fedora Bible, Ubuntu Linux Toolbox, and more.

• Introduction xxxvPart I: Getting Started 1Chapter 1: Starting with Linux 3Chapter 2: Creating the Perfect Linux Desktop 27Part II: Becoming a Linux Power User 57Chapter 3: Using the Shell 59Chapter 4: Moving Around the Filesystem 91Chapter 5: Working with Text Files 111Chapter 6: Managing Running Processes 129Chapter 7: Writing Simple Shell Scripts 145Part III: Becoming a Linux System Administrator 163Chapter 8: Learning System Administration 165Chapter 9: Installing Linux 191Chapter 10: Getting and Managing Software 217Chapter 11: Managing User Accounts 247Chapter 12: Managing Disks and Filesystems 271Part IV: Becoming a Linux Server Administrator 303Chapter 13: Understanding Server Administration 305Chapter 14: Administering Networking 339Chapter 15: Starting and Stopping Services 367Chapter 16: Configuring a Print Server. 387Chapter 17: Configuring a Web Server 409Chapter 18: Configuring an FTP Server 439Chapter 19: Configuring a Windows File Sharing (Samba) Server 459Chapter 20: Configuring an NFS File Server 483Chapter 21: Troubleshooting Linux 505Chapter 22: Configuring an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot 535Part V: Learning Linux Security Techniques 545Chapter 23: Understanding Basic Linux Security 547Chapter 24: Understanding Advanced Linux Security 579Chapter 25: Enhancing Linux Security with SELinux 613Chapter 26: Securing Linux on a Network 641Part VI: Engaging with Cloud Computing 661Chapter 27: Shifting to Clouds and Containers 663Chapter 28: Using Linux for Cloud Computing 679Chapter 29: Deploying Linux to the Cloud 699Chapter 30: Automating Apps and Infrastructure with Ansible 713Chapter 31: Deploying Applications as Containers with Kubernetes 729Summary 746Exercises 747Appendix A: Media 749Appendix B: Exercise Answers 759Index 821