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Title: Official Red Hat Linux Administrator's Guide by Red Hat Inc ISBN: 0-7645-1695-7 Publisher: Red Hat Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Only handles "smooth sailing" issues
Comment: I have a copy. It has its good points and its bad points.
+ It quickly gets you set up using the Red Hat GUI tools. Using it so set up Samba and NFS was trivial.
- It is very Red Hat specific. It only rarely talks about the underlying Linux configuration files and formats.
- If anything goes wrong (say for example permissions were set incorrectly on /etc/myConfiguration), you will have NO CLUE what to do next if the GUI tool fails. You may not even know file names.
If you want to know how to do typical configuration tasks, and you stay close to the vanilla Red Hat installation, this book may be OK.
On the other hand, if you are using any other installation, or modifying default Red Hat tools, this book doesn't really help. It will NOT tell you much about what the GUI tool actually configured for you.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of Time and Money
Comment: When I first saw the book I was optimistic that I would be getting something that would be useful, this was my first mistake. This book has no value other than good fire starting potential, and that is questionable. Not only is the book unorganized and provides no information for the administration of Red Hat Linux, it has an index that an editor should be ashamed for letting go to press. I will never buy a book edited by REDHAT Press again. It is as if they thought working for Red Had made it alright to sell garbage to the users of Red Hat. Sincerely, Warming by the fire.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your money!
Comment: This book was a complete waste. I was looking for a book to help admin my RedHat servers. The format of this book is:
Overview of the topic.
What RPMs to install.
But does not explain what to do next or if there are problems. The best section is on RAID. If all you want to do is create a RAID device. There is nothing about recovery of a lost disk.
Buy the Unix System Administration Handbook (NEMETH).
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Title: Official Red Hat Linux User's Guide by Inc. Red Hat ISBN: 0764549677 Publisher: Red Hat Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed J. Kabir ISBN: 0764547542 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration (With CD-ROM) by Terry Collings, Kurt Wall ISBN: 076453632X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Red Hat Linux Internet Server by Paul G. Sery, Jay Beale ISBN: 0764547887 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 29 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Red Hat Linux Firewalls by Bill McCarty ISBN: 0764524631 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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