Hi John, On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 20:54 -0500, John Best wrote: > All, > Looking for some good reference/administration books for Fedora FC4 or > other General Fedora Info. I find I can hack my way through most > problems, but the MAN pages are very poor at providing education on what > features or tools are available and how to get started with them. Here are a few: Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4 Bible, by Chris Negus (just hitting bookstores) Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, by Mark Sobell Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed, by Hudson, Hudson, Ball and Duff IMHO, the Bible keeps up better with the latest information. Sobell did a nice job, but it's based on FC2. Haven't seen FC4 Unleashed yet. (Disclaimer: I wrote the first one so my opinions may be biased.) > Things I want to find out/become better educated... > SELinux - how to configure/administrate. (I think I have some inet > services - portmapper/others that start but error out - see errors on > boot - that I would like to correct correctly. Bible has a chapter on SELinux. Could be deeper, but a good start. Not covered in the other two books. > Admin web and related services like mysql, webserver, mail server, > firewall, etc. All covered in the Bible. No real coverage on firewalls in Unleashed. Good coverage in Sobell's book. > Understand and can use logging - Where are the logs, how to monitor the > logs, how to log more/less.. Fedora dropped system-logviewer in FC4. Bible added coverage of logwatch. Otherwise, page through files in /var/log, I guess. > How to configure the gnome/kde menus/start menus, etc (This to me is the > most frustrating and difficult activity I have tried to hack through.) For GNOME, copy and edit a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. For KDE, right-click the panel->Configure Panel->Menus->Edit K Menu. (There, now you don't have to buy a book. ;-) ) -- Chris Negus