Jonathan Hobson - CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook

Ugo Bellavance , who has done most of his studies in e-commerce, started using Linux at Red Hat 5.2, got Linux training from Savoir-Faire-Linux at age 20, and got his RHCE on RHEL 6 in 2011. He's been a consultant in the past, but he's now an employee for a provincial government agency for which he manages the infrastructure (servers, workstations, network, security, virtualization, SAN/NAS, PBX). He's a big fan of open source software and its underlying philosophy. He's worked with Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, but what he knows best is RHEL-based distributions. He's known for his contributions to the MailScanner project (he has been a technical reviewer for the MailScanner book), but also dedicated his time to different open source projects such as Mondo Rescue, OTRS, SpamAssassin, pfSense, and a few others.

I thank my lover, Lysanne, who accepted to allow me some free time slots for this review even with a two year-old and a six month-old to take care of. The presence of these three human beings in my life is simply invaluable.

I must also thank my friend Sbastien, whose generosity is only matched by his knowledge and kindness. I would never have reached that high in my career if it wasn't for him.

Benot Benedetti works as a Linux System Administrator, for the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, where he graduated with a degree in computer science.

He is always interested in resolving new problems, as it's an opportunity to work with new technologies. Benot loves helping users, teaching students, and writing technical articles for GNU/Linux Magazine and GNU/Linux Pratique the historical monthly magazines about Linux in France.

He would like to thank every person who dedicates their time developing free and open source software, and making them available for us to play with.

Frank Lemmon is a Senior Software QA Professional with seven years of CentOS experience. His past work experience includes working at Yahoo!, Qualys, Hewlett-Packard, and various other start-ups.

He worked as a reviewer on the first edition of the book, OWASP Developer's Guide .

In memory of my father, who valued the importance of education and was an inspiration to me.

Building a server can present a challenge. It is often difficult at the best of times and frustrating at the worst of times. They can represent the biggest of problems or give you a great sense of pride and achievement. Where the word "server" can describe many things, it is the intention of this book to lift the lid and expose the inner workings of this enterprise-class computing system with the intention of enabling you to build the professional server solution of choice.

CentOS is a community-based enterprise class operating system. It is available free of charge, and as a fully compatible derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) it represents the first choice operating system for organizations, companies, professionals, and home users all over the world who intend to run a server. It's widely respected as a very powerful and flexible Linux distribution and regardless as to whether you intend to run a web server, file server, FTP server, domain server, or a multi-role solution, it is the purpose of this book to deliver a series of turn-key solutions that will show you how quickly you can build a fully capable and comprehensive server system using the CentOS 6 operating system.