Index

features, 8–9

hard drive configuration, 23

hardware requirements, 22–23

information requirements, 23–25

installation, 21–22

Red Hat administration tools, 9

updating, 52–54

Yum repository, 53

Linux, 184–187

parent/child structure, 184

tree structure, 184

creating, 592–596

information, 578–579

mounting, 577–578

types, 582

expansion, 141–145

generating patterns, 144–145

matching a range of characters, 143–144

matching multiple characters, 142–143

matching shell symbols, 144

matching single characters, 143

chains, 330

iptables, 328–329

Netfilter, 327

setup, 81

boot disks, 25–27

defaults, 584

mounting, 588–589

mounting from the KDE desktop, 125–126

GNU project, 3

client commands, 271–272

.netrc, 274–276

anonymous, 379–380, 381–382

clients, 262–276

available servers, 378

ProFTPD, 378, 389–398

Red Hat FTP server directories, 378–379

users, 379

Very Secure FTP server (vsftpd), 378

virtual, 395–398

vsftpd, 379–380, 382–389

Washington University FTP Daemon (WU-FTPD), 398–399

creating new FTP users, 380–381

ftp group, 380