Linux Annoyances for Geeks: Getting the Most Flexible System in the World Just the Way You Want It

This chapter solves annoyances related to specific services, such as web access, FTP, and email. A lot of these services, even though they have zillions of configuration options, can be enabled through the check of a box during Linux installation and often work satisfactorily without any tweaking. On the other hand, some of the common annoyances covered in this chapter are hard to puzzle out using the standard documentation for the services. So this chapter doesn't try to replace the basic configuration instructions that come with each service, but just provides enough information to get you over the hump of particularly common and poorly documented problems.