Linux Bible

858 Pages·2012·14.589 MB·English

by  Christopher Negus, Christine Bresnahan

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Linux®
Bible

8th Edition
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Linux®
BIBLE

8th Edition
Christopher Negus

with contributions by
Christine Bresnahan
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Linux® Bible 8th Edition
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As always, I dedicate this book to my wife, Sheree.
— Chris Negus
I would like to dedicate this book to my family and the Lord God Almighty.
“But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be
rewarded.” 2 Chronicles 15:7
— Christine Bresnahan
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About the Authors
Chris Negus has spent the past three years as an instructor for Red Hat, Inc., teaching
IT professionals to become Red Hat Certifi ed Engineers (RHCE). Chris’s certifi cations
include RHCE, Red Hat Certifi ed Instructor (RHCI), and Red Hat Certifi ed Examiner
(RHCX). He also has certifi cations in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHCVA) and Red
Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management.
Before joining Red Hat, Chris wrote or co-wrote dozens of books on Linux and
UNIX, including Red Hat Linux Bible (all editions), CentOS Bible, Fedora Bible, Linux
Troubleshooting Bible, Linux Toys, and Linux Toys II. Recently, Chris co-authored several
books for the Linux Toolbox series for power users: Fedora Linux Toolbox, SUSE Linux
Toolbox, Ubuntu Linux Toolbox, Mac OS X Toolbox, and BSD UNIX Toolbox.
For eight years Chris worked with the organization at AT&T that developed UNIX before
moving to Utah to contribute to Novell’s UnixWare project in the early 1990s. When not
writing about Linux, Chris enjoys playing soccer and just hanging out with his family.
Christine Bresnahan started working with computers over 25 years ago in the IT indus-
try as a system administrator. Christine is currently an adjunct professor at Ivy Tech
Community College in Indianapolis, Indiana, teaching Linux system administration,
Linux security, and Windows security classes.
About the Technical Editor
Richard Blum has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years as both a systems
and network administrator, and has published numerous Linux and open source books.
He has administered UNIX, Linux, Novell, and Microsoft servers, as well as helped
design and maintain a 3,500-user network utilizing Cisco switches and routers. He has
used Linux servers and shell scripts to perform automated network and system moni-
toring, and has written shell scripts in most of the common Linux shell environments.
Rich is also an online instructor for several Linux and web programming courses that
are used by colleges and universities around the world. When he’s not being a computer
nerd, Rich plays electric bass in a couple of different church worship bands, and enjoys
spending time with his wife, Barbara, and three daughters, Katie, Jane, and Jessica.
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