Index
B
Back button, Mozilla, 420
backdoors, 654
backend, CUPS, 119
background
commands, Bash shell, 217–218
nohup utility, 218
backups
automated, 579
commercial utilities, 575
device names, 575
incremental, 578–579
overview, 574
partitioning and, 26
system administration and, 14, 350
tape, 578
tar command, 575
multivolume archives, 577
single volume archives, 576–577
basename (GNU shell utility), 229
BASH (Bash environment variable), 216
Bash shell, 8, 750
Bourne shell and, 210
built-in commands, 758–761
commands
aliases, 222
background, 217–218
combining, 212
command history, 220–221
editing recalled, 221
recalling, 220–221
syntax, 211–212
virtual consoles, 217–218
control structures, 755–757
description, 227
environment variables, 214–216
filename completion, 218–219
filenames, wildcards, 219–220
functions, 755
I/O redirection, 213–214
process information, 216–217
scripting basics, 753–754
variables, 754
Bash-Prompt-HOWTO file, 189
BASH_VERSION (Bash environment variable), 216
bastion hosts, 654
perimeter networks, 685–686
baud, compared to bps, 967
bc, description, 227
Belgian-HOWTO file, 189
Berkeley Sockets, introduction, 11
/bin, description, 201
binary command, FTP, 495
binary utilities, GNU, 239–241
BIND (Berkeley Internet Domain Name System)
dig (Domain Internet Groper), 511, 512–515
host command, 515
named daemon, 511
caching and, 512
primary/master mode, 511–512
secondary/slave, 511–512
resolver library, 511, 512
version, 510
Binutils, description, 227
bionet newsgroups, description, 478
bit newsgroups, description, 478
biz newsgroups, description, 478
block devices, 580–581
configuring, 629
Bluetooth, kernel configuration, 640
BogoMIPS, speed and, 181
bookmarks, Mozilla, 420
boolean data type (Java), 851
/boot, description, 201
boot commands, 58–60
boot disk
FIPS and, 28
installation and, 21
boot loader and, 22
installer boot disk, creating, 29–30
boot parameters, startup, first time, 180–181
Bootdisk-HOWTO file, 189
booting
from hard drive, 933–934
init process, 554–555
installer, 30–31
network configuration and, 169–170
watching process, 32
bootloader option, kickstart, 65
BootPrompt-HOWTO file, 189
Bourne shell, Bash shell and, 210
Bourne-Again Shell, introduction, 8
bps, compared to baud, 967
browsers
as FTP clients, 498
Galeon, 418
Konqueror, 418
Mozilla, 418
brute-force printing (CUPS), 117–118
BSD, print commands, 114
buffer, Emacs, navigating, 327–328
buffer overflow, 654
bugs. See gdb
built-in commands
Bash shell, 758–761
Perl, 780–788
Tcl, 808–811
business requirements (security policies), 650
bye command, FTP, 495
byte data type (Java), 851