M

MAC (Mandatory Access Control), 459

Mac OS 8 AppleTalk, 989

Mac OS X, 986–987

AppleTalk, 988–989

licensing and, 986

network services, 987–988

Macintosh

desktop users, 985

Intel-based, Fedora installation, 1009–1011

Macromedia Flash Player, Firefox and, 376

Madwifi, 648

magnetic tape backups

drive testing, 549

ftape driver, 548–549

mail command, 392

mail login, 427

mail readers, 391

default, 385

mail server

dial-up setup and, 686

port number, 966

mailman.conf file, Apache Web server, 871

mailto protocol, URLs and, 368

make tool, 222

Managed Wireless LANs, 638

mapping, /etc/exports file and, 752

mass virtual hosting, TUX Web server, 832

Matrox, video cards, gaming, 290

mattrib mtool, 237

MaxKeepAliveRequests directive, Apache Web server timeouts, 838

mbadblocks mtool, 237

MBR (Master Boot Record), installation and, 41

mcd mtool, 237

mcheck mtool, 237

mcopy mtool, 237

mdel mtool, 237

mdeltree mtool, 237

mdir mtool, 237

mdu mtool, 238

media

backups, 547

magnetic tape, 548–549

writable CD drives , 549–553

Media Check, installation and, 27, 37

metacharacters

file-matching, 178–180

file-redirection, 180

metadata, yum.conf, 196

mformat mtool, 238

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), 333

MIME files, Nautilus, 113

minfo mtool, 238

minix file system, 437

Minolta digital cameras as storage device, 361

mirroring, RAID disks, 447

mkisofs command, writing to CDs and, 550

mkmanifest mtool, 238

mmd mtool, 238

mmount mtool, 238

mmove mtool, 238

modems, LAN connection to Internet, 698

modprobe , loading, 588

Module section, xorg.conf file, 144

modules

Apache Web server, 871

iptables, 595

loadable, 431, 595

Mondo Rescue backu tool, 545

Monitor section, xorg.conf file, 144

Mono, applications and, 20

mount command, 440, 443

mount point, RAID disks, 448

mounting

ISO images, 443

NFS directories, 755

automatically, 756–758

bg option, 758

fg option, 758

hard mounting, 758

manually, 755–756

on demand, autofs and, 759–760

retrans=# option, 758

retry =# option, 758

rsize option, 758

soft mounting, 758

timeo=# option, 758

wsize option, 758

Samba shared directories, Linux, 779

Windows file systems, 67

Mozilla, 365

Firefox, 371–376

security, 380–381

Mozilla Suite, 365

Web browser, 131

MP3 Audio, 315

MP3s, legal issues, 314

MPEG files (mpg), 352

MPM (Multi-Processing Module), 839

mrd mtool, 238

mren mtool, 238

msdos file system, 437

mshowfat mtool, 238

MTA (Mail Transport Agent), 457

mtoolstest mtool, 238

mtype mtool, 238

multimedia, legal issues, 313–314

multitasking

definition, 151

processes, 151

music

ALSA and, 315

CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) system, 315

mutt command, text-based e-mail, 391

my.cnf configuration file, 928

my-huge.cnf file, 933

my-large.cnf file, 933

my-medium.cnf file, 933

my-small.cnf file, 933

MySQL

administrative, 926–927

auth_mysql.conf file, 871

checking, 931

checking status, 934–935

columns display, 948

configuration, 926–933

creating, 936–938

data entry, 938–940

databases, 935

displaying, 946–948

Fedora installation inclusion, 924

loading data from file, 940–941

mysql command, 935–936

numeric, 942–944

sample, 932

selecting, 929–931

setting, 927–931

sorting data, 948–949

starting, 933

tables, 941–946

time/date, 944

user access, 950–953

mysql package, 924

mysql- devel package, 924

mysql-server package, 924

mzip mtool, 238