OpenSUSE® 11.0 and SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server Bible -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- How This Book Is Structured -- Conventions Used in This Book -- DVD, Web Site, and Source Code -- Introduction -- Linux History -- SUSE History -- The SUSE Family of Products -- Part I: SUSE Linux Basics -- Chapter 1: Installing SUSE -- Selecting Your Installation Method -- Starting Your Installation -- Installation Mode -- Customizing the Installation -- Running the Installation -- Completing Installation -- Chapter 2: Linux Fundamentals -- Command Line 101: The Shell -- Getting Help for Linux Commands -- Working with Files and Directories -- Common Administrative Tasks -- Working with Software Packages -- Compiling Source Packages -- Connecting over the Network -- Backing Up, Restoring, and Archiving Files -- Chapter 3: Partitions, Filesystems, and Files -- Partitions -- Filesystems -- Creating Filesystems -- Filesystem Comparisons -- Mounting Filesystems -- Unmounting Filesystems -- Part II: The SUSE System -- Chapter 4: Booting the System -- Booting Concepts -- Boot Managers -- Dual Booting -- Troubleshooting Booting -- Chapter 5: Documentation -- Finding Help on Your SUSE System -- Linux Documentation Project Resources -- Finding Help Online -- Finding Further Information -- Chapter 6: Understanding Your Linux Network -- Internet 101 -- TCP/IP -- Routing -- Chapter 7: Logging -- The Files in/var/log -- Logging with syslog -- Logging with syslog-ng -- Managing Your Logs with logrotate -- Analyzing Your Logs with logcheck -- UsingWebalizer -- Reading Log Files -- Chapter 8: The X Window System -- XWindow System Concepts -- Configuring X -- KDE -- GNOME -- Other Window Managers -- Xgl and Compiz -- Chapter 9: Configuring the System with YaST -- YaST Modules -- Configuring Installation Sources.

Setting Up Proxy Settings -- Using NTP Time Services -- Printer Configuration -- Setting Up a Scanner -- Boot Loader Configuration -- Setting Up SCPM -- Runlevel Editor -- Users and Groups -- Installing Additional Software with YaST -- YOU-The YaST Online Update -- The YaST Installation Server Module -- Autoinstallation-AutoYaST -- Part III: Using the Command Line in SUSE Linux -- Chapter 10: Text Manipulation -- Reading Lines from Files -- Extracting Lines from Files -- Working with Fields from Text Files -- Replacing Text -- Formatting Text Files for Viewing and Printing -- Comparing Files -- Getting Text Out of Other File Formats -- Chapter 11: Text Editors -- The Politics -- vi/vim -- emacs -- Chapter 12: Working with Packages -- Binary RPMs -- Creating an RPM -- Installation Sources -- Command-Line Installation Tools -- Chapter 13: Working with Files -- Listing, Copying, and Moving Files -- Finding Files -- Looking at Files and File Types -- Compressing Files -- Working with Archives -- Files Attributes and ACLs -- Chapter 14: Working with the System -- System Rescue and Repair -- Working with Partitions -- Working with DVDs, CDs, and Floppies -- Automating Tasks -- Chapter 15: Linux Networking -- Configuring an IP Network -- The Wonderful World of ARP -- Taking Part in an IPX Network -- Network Tools -- Network Troubleshooting -- Wireless Networking -- Bluetooth -- Part IV: Implementing Network Services in SUSE Linux -- Chapter 16: Setting Up a Web Site with the Apache Web Server -- Configuring Apache -- Security -- The Common Gateway Interface -- Creating Dynamic Content with PHP -- Configuration Using YaST -- Chapter 17: Mail Servers - Postfix, Sendmail, Qpopper, and Cyrus -- How Mail Is Sent and Received -- Postfix -- sendmail -- Qpopper -- Fetchmail -- Cyrus IMAPD -- Choosing a Mail Client -- Mail Systems on Linux.

Chapter 18: Setting Up Windows Interoperability with Samba -- The Samba Packages -- Setting Up and Using a Samba Client -- Setting Up a Samba Server Using YaST -- Creating and Managing the Samba Password File -- Working with the Winbind Daemon -- The Samba Configuration File -- Using SWAT -- Chapter 19: Setting Up Printing with CUPS -- Setting Up a Locally Connected Printer -- Documentation -- Chapter 20: Configuring and Using DHCP Services -- DHCP: Mode of Operation -- DHCP Packages on SUSE -- Setting Up a DHCP Server Using YaST -- Manually Configuring a DHCP Server -- Starting and Stopping DHCP Clients -- Troubleshooting DHCP Clients and Servers -- Chapter 21: Configuring a DNS Server -- Some DNS Theory -- Configuring BIND for Caching and Forwarding -- Examining Record Types -- Working with Zones -- The Reverse Zone -- Configuring a DNS Server with YaST -- Chapter 22: Working with NFS -- Mounting NFS Filesystems -- The NFS Server -- Chapter 23: Running an FTP Server on SUSE -- vsftpd as an Anonymous FTP Server -- Setting Up User FTP with vsftpd -- Allowing Uploads -- Using pure-ftpd -- Further Information -- Chapter 24: Implementing Firewalls in SUSE Linux -- Why Use a Firewall? -- Configuring a Firewall with iptables -- Network Address Translation -- Redirecting Traffic -- Allowing ICMP Traffic -- Allowing Loopback -- Stopping '' Too Frequent'' Connections -- Logging Dropped Packets -- Using SuSEfirewall2 -- Chapter 25: Network Information and Directory Services -- Using NIS for Authentication -- Working with LDAP in SUSE -- What Is LDAP? -- Implementing the LDAP Server -- Pluggable Authentication Modules -- Integrating LDAP into Linux -- Setting the ACL on the LDAP Server -- How Can LDAP Help You? -- Chapter 26: Setting Up a Web Proxy with Squid -- Getting Started with Squid on SUSE -- User Authentication -- Restricting Access by Hardware Address.

The Squid Log -- Using Squid as a Transparent Proxy -- Using Cache Manager -- Using squidGuard -- Part V: SUSE Linux in the Enterprise -- Chapter 27: Enterprise Architecture -- A Typical Organization -- Linux Enterprise Hardware: The Big Players -- Putting It All Together -- Chapter 28: Emulation and Virtualization -- Emulation Versus Virtualization -- DOS Emulation Using dosemu and dosbox -- Running Microsoft Windows Applications with Wine -- The bochs PC Emulator -- Virtual Machines Using QEMU -- VMware Virtual Machines -- VirtualBox -- The Xen Hypervisor -- Other Emulators -- Chapter 29: The Kernel -- Why You Probably Don't Need This Chapter -- Why You Might Need This Chapter -- SUSE Kernels and Vanilla Kernels -- Upgrading a Kernel Package -- Kernel Configuration -- Building the Kernel -- Kernel Module Packages and Third-Party Software -- Kernel Parameters at Boot Time -- The Initial Ramdisk -- Chapter 30: Business Desktop Linux: SLED -- The Technical Background -- The Stubborn Applications -- Other Commercial Desktop Distributions -- Other Approaches -- SLD, NLD, and SLED -- The Future of SLED and the Linux Desktop -- For More Information -- Appendix A: What's on the DVD -- System Requirements -- What's on the DVD -- Troubleshooting -- Index.