B

background

commmands,145

desktop, 84

folders, 83

KDE, configuration, 120

processes

% (percent), 150

bringing to foreground, 150-151

starting, 149-150

strings and, 151

backticks (`), comments, 443

backup shell script example, 453

backups

automation, cron and, 497-499

CD drives, writable, 487-490

computer, different, 480

cp command, 492

cron and, 497-499

directories, cloning, 492-493

disk mirroring, 483, 493-494

dump command and, 494-497

DVD drives, writable, 491

full backups, 483

hard disks, different, 480

incremental, 483

local, 480-481

magnetic tape, 485-487

mediums, 484

networks

Amanda, 503-509

backups, 483

partitions, different, 480

pax archiving tool, 509

remote, 481-482

restoring

directories, 501-503

extract command, 503

files, 501-503

restore command, 499-503

system restore, 500

rsync command and, 479-482

copying files, 480

cron and, 481-482

frequency of backup, 482

ssh and, 481-482

tar command, 492

to hard drive, 491-492

bash command shell, initial login scripts and, 421

BASH environment variable, 146

bash shell, 134

cut command, 451

external programs, 451-452

grep, 451

parameter expansion, 444

sed (Stream Editor), 452

tr (translator), 451

BASH_EUID environment variable, 146

BASH_VERSION environment variable, 146

bashrc configuration file, /etc directory, 367

.bashrc file, 421

Basic mode, PortSentry, 572

batch command, scheduled jobs, 472-473

batch files, 441. See shell scripts

bc command, integer arithmetic, 445

befs (BeOS file system), 382

behavior of files, Konqueror, 115

bg option, NFS file systems mounting and, 706

/bin directory, 155

bin login, 372

binary RPMs, 183

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain)

software

DNS, 911-912

Mac OS X and, 926

resources, 923

bindings, httpd.conf file, 785

binutils tool, 195

Bluecurve desktop theme, 80

Boa 0.94 Web server, 776

bookmarks

Firefox (Mozilla), 328

Konqueror, 114

/boot directory, 155

boot loader

configuration, installation and, 33-34

installation and

GRUB, 65-69

LILO, 69-73

startup, system initialization, 454

Boot Loader Configuration, installation, 23

boot procedure, installation and, 29

booting

Fedora Setup Agent, 37, 40

installation

from hard disk, 41-42

from USB devices, 43

kickstart, 53-54

PXE, 43

Bourne Again SHell. See bash shell

Browser Identification, Konqueror, 116

browsers

Mozilla, application download, 180-181

preferences, 84

proxy configuration, 668-669

responses, httpd.conf (Apache Web server) configuration, 810-811

browsing

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), 314

Mozilla, 318-329

Samba options, 720-721

URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), 314-315

built-in shell commands, 137

burning CDs with Nautilus, 102

bus topology, LANs, 586