CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook: A practical guide to installing, configuring, and administering the CentOS community-based enterprise server

374 Pages·2013·4.34 MB·English

by  Jonathan Hobson

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CentOS 6 Linux Server
Cookbook
A practical guide to installing, configuring, and
administering the CentOS community-based
enterprise server
Jonathan Hobson
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook
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About the Author
Jonathan Hobson is a Web Developer, Systems Engineer, and Applications Programmer,
who, for more than 20 years has been working behind the scenes to support companies,
organizations, and individuals around the world to realize their digital ambitions. With an
honors degree in both English and History and as a respected practitioner of many computer
languages, Jonathan enjoys writing code, publishing articles, building computers, playing
video games, and getting "out and about" in the big outdoors. He has been using CentOS
since its inception and over the years, it has not only earned his trust, but it has become his
first-choice server solution. CentOS is a first class community-based enterprise class operating
system, it is a pleasure to work with, and because of this, Jonathan has written this book in
order that his knowledge and experience can be passed on to others.
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About the Reviewers
Ugo Bellavance, who has done most of his studies in e-commerce, started using Linux at
Red Hat 5.2, got Linux training from Savoir-Faire-Linux at age 20, and got his RHCE on RHEL
6 in 2011. He's been a consultant in the past, but he's now an employee for a provincial
government agency for which he manages the infrastructure (servers, workstations, network,
security, virtualization, SAN/NAS, PBX). He's a big fan of open source software and its underlying
philosophy. He's worked with Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, but what he knows best is RHEL-based
distributions. He's known for his contributions to the MailScanner project (he has been a
technical reviewer for the MailScanner book), but also dedicated his time to different open
source projects such as Mondo Rescue, OTRS, SpamAssassin, pfSense, and a few others.
I thank my lover, Lysanne, who accepted to allow me some free time slots
for this review even with a two year-old and a six month-old to take care of.
The presence of these three human beings in my life is simply invaluable.
I must also thank my friend Sébastien, whose generosity is only matched
by his knowledge and kindness. I would never have reached that high in my
career if it wasn't for him.
Benoît Benedetti works as a Linux System Administrator, for the University of Nice Sophia
Antipolis, where he graduated with a degree in computer science.
He is always interested in resolving new problems, as it's an opportunity to work with new
technologies. Benoît loves helping users, teaching students, and writing technical articles for
GNU/Linux Magazine and GNU/Linux Pratique—the historical monthly magazines about Linux
in France.
He would like to thank every person who dedicates their time developing
free and open source software, and making them available for us to
play with.
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Frank Lemmon is a Senior Software QA Professional with seven years of
CentOS experience. His past work experience includes working at Yahoo!,
Qualys, Hewlett-Packard, and various other start-ups.
He worked as a reviewer on the first edition of the book, OWASP Developer's Guide.
In memory of my father, who valued the importance of education and was
an inspiration to me.
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