CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook

A practical guide to installing, configuring, and administering the CentOS community-based enterprise server.

• Delivering comprehensive insight into CentOS server with a series of starting points that show you how to build, configure, maintain and deploy the latest edition of one of the world’s most popular community based enterprise servers.
• Providing beginners and more experienced individuals alike with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge by delivering instant access to a library of recipes that addresses all aspects of CentOS server and put you in control.
• Giving you immediate access to a thriving knowledge base that illustrates just how quickly you can master CentOS server with a whole host of tricks of the trade thrown in for good measure.

In Detail

CentOS is a community-based enterprise class operating system and this book will provide a series of practical solutions that will not only show you how to install and maintain CentOS as a server, but to explore this well-known Linux distribution with the intention of tackling many common issues by providing some tricks of the trade in order to simplify the task of building a server.

“CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook” is a practical guide to installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance. This is a one-stop-shop to all things CentOS, so regardless as to whether you need a mail server, web server, database server, domain server or a file sharing platform, this book provides a comprehensive series of starting points that will give you direct access to the inner workings of this open source, community-based enterprise server.

“CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook” is a practical guide to the complete installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance of one of the world’s most popular community-based enterprise servers.

From installation to configuration, this book of recipes will take you on a journey to explore inner workings of CentOS server. Within this book you will learn how to install CentOS in variety of settings, enhance your installation with the correct tools of the trade and prepare your server to fulfil almost any role you could ever need.

By discovering more about time, networking, package management, system management and security, this book will serve to show you how to get the very best from this freely available, open source server by presenting a series of solutions that will enable you to master the art of building your very own web, database, mail, domain name, file sharing services.

What you will learn from this book

• Installing and validating CentOS 6 and adding a desktop environment
• Configuring CentOS to allow you to manage time and multiple IP addresses
• Managing log files by using logrotate, memory usage and databases
• Managing Packages will show you how to manage the system with the Yum package manager
• Administering CentOS through creating new administrative users and creating customized email reports
• Securing your shell environment, ascending user privileges and building firewalls to prevent outside attacks
• Building networks, domains and implementing the Apache web server.

Approach

Presented in a step by step, easy to read tutorial style, this book presents the reader with real world solutions to every aspect of CentOS 6.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Installing CentOS
Chapter 2: Configuring CentOS
Chapter 3: Working with CentOS
Chapter 4: Managing Packages with Yum
Chapter 5: Securing CentOS
Chapter 6: Working with Samba
Chapter 7: Working with Domains
Chapter 8: Working with Databases
Chapter 9: Providing Mail Services
Chapter 10: Working with Apache
Chapter 11: Working with FTP