Linux System Administration

This reference focuses on installing, configuring, and administrating Linux as an operating system. It offers guidance on managing users and groups, scheduling automatic tasks, implementing centralized user authentication with NIS, and establishing RAID disk arrays. Advice is also given on such topics as backup strategies, firewalls, mail and Web servers, and news and FTP servers. Danesh studies computer science at Simon Fraser University. Das works as a systems and network administrator. Samudrala uses computational approaches in the study of biology at Stanford University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)