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