Beginning Fedora 2

F

FAT (file allocation table system) filesystem, 200

fdisk command, 203

Fedora

networks and, 338

Fedora Core

firewall

configuration, 453, 454

Fedora Project

bug tracker, 581, 582

contributions, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586

mailing lists, 580, 581

FIFOs, 171

file compression

File Roller, 164, 165

file formats

conversion quality, 134

OpenOffice, 132, 134

file globbing, 228, 229, 230

file locking

User Manager, 263

file management

Nautilus, 163, 164

file permissions, 175

File Roller, 164, 165

file servers

description, 375

Samba, 376

configuration files/utilities, 378, 379

installation, 376

smbclient utility, 384, 385

smbmount utility, 385, 386

start/stop, 377, 378

SWAT, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384

setup, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387

filesystems

devices

adding, 59

information detection, 66

hierarchy, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55

navigating

GUI, 55, 56

terminal emulator, 56

filesystem table, 488

filenames

auto-completion, 227

ls command, 182

white space in, 182

files

/usr/bin directory, 193

attributes, 170

time, 179, 180, 181

backup

storage, 501, 502

binary, 172

block devices, 171

character devices, 171

configuration

Samba, 378, 379

configuration files, 487

/etc/aliases, 487

/etc/bashrc, 487

/etc/crontab, 487

/etc/csh. cshrc , 487

/etc/default/useradd, 488

/etc/fstab, 488

/etc/ group , 488

/etc/grub.conf, 488

/etc/ hosts , 489

/etc/hosts.allow, 489

/etc/hosts.deny, 489

/etc/init.d, 489

/etc/inittab, 490

/etc/issue, 490

/etc/issue.net, 490

/etc/ld.so.conf, 490

/etc/logrotate.conf, 490

/etc/ modprobe .conf, 491

/etc/passwd, 491

/etc/rc, 491

/etc/resolv.conf, 491

/etc/security, 491

/etc/shadow, 492

/etc/ shells , 492

/etc/skel, 492

/etc/sysconfig, 492

/etc/sysctl.conf, 492

/etc/syslog.conf, 493

/etc/X11/xorg.conf, 487

/etc/xinetd.conf, 493

converting

quality, 134

copying

dual boot systems and, 203

rcp (remote copy), OpenSSH suite, 475, 476

scp (secure copy), OpenSSH suite, 475, 476

FIFOs, 171

groups, 175

inode, 173

links, 171, 172

hard, 173, 174, 175

symbolic, 173, 174, 175

log

application specific, 496

searching, 496, 497

logs

viewing, 494, 495, 496

ls command, 170

moving, 217, 218

ownership, 175

Perl

opening, 548, 549

permissions, 176, 178, 278, 279

private, 275

public, 275

Read-only, 275, 276

restricted, 276, 277

Write access, 277

searches

find command, 184, 185, 186

GNOME search tool, 186

locate command, 183, 184

searching for, 58, 59

shell commands

creating/removing, 217

size , 181

sockets, 171

SSH directories, 171

substitutions

Perl, 566

text, 172

types, 170, 171, 172

desktop configuration, 76

files, archival

File Roller, 164, 165

filesystem, 169

compatibility, 201, 202

ext, 200

FAT, 200

Fedora

accessing from MS Windows , 203

maintenance, 208, 209

Microsoft, 202, 203

Nautilus and, 169

navigation, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194

NTFS, 200

partitions and, 200, 201

shell commands, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219

absolute path , 215

directories, 216, 217

files, 217

relative path, 215

working directory, 215

find command, 184, 185, 186

firewalls

Fedora Core

configuration, 453, 454

iptables command, 454, 455, 456, 457

network security and, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457

packet filters and, 452

fixed IP

installation and, 5

flash drives

mounting, 199

floppy disks

mounting, 60

focus

windows

desktop configuration, 78

fonts

desktop configuration, 77

formatting

hard disks, 207

FQDN (fully qualified domain name ), 5

frequency of backups , 506, 507

FTP (File Transfer Protocol), 361

clients , 116

SFTP (Secure FTP), 361

FTP client

anonymous write access

testing, 367, 368

FTP server

anonymous

configuration, 364, 366

read access, testing, 365

write access, 366, 367

authentication

system accounts and, 368

greeting banner, 370

gssftpd, 361

setup, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369,370

TUX, 361

user accounts

disabling, 368, 369

vsftpd, 361

installation, 362, 363, 364

wu_ftpd, 361

full path name, 54

functions

opendir, 572

Package Management Tool, 293, 295, 296, 297

Perl

split, 550

future of Linux, 587

development applications, 595, 596, 597, 598, 600, 601, 602, 603

licensing, 587, 588, 589, 590

online resources, 587, 588, 589, 590

system administration applications, 590, 591, 593, 594