Version 0.9
Lars Wirzenius, Joanna Oja, Stephen Stafford, Alex Weeks
An introduction to system administration of a Linux system for novices.
Legal Notice- Table of Contents
- About This Book   Â
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. Revision History
- 3. Source and pre-formatted versions available
- 4. Typographical Conventions
- 1. Introduction   Â
- 1.1. Linux or GNU/Linux, that is the question.
- 1.2. Trademarks
- 2. Overview of a Linux System   Â
- 2.1. Various parts of an operating system
- 2.2. Important parts of the kernel
- 2.3. Major services in a UNIX system
- 3. Overview of the Directory Tree   Â
- 3.1. Background
- 3.2. The root filesystem
- 3.3. The /etc directory
- 3.4. The /dev directory
- 3.5. The /usr filesystem
- 3.6. The /var filesystem
- 3.7. The /proc filesystem
- 4. Hardware, Devices, and Tools   Â
- 4.1. Hardware Utilities
- 4.2. Kernel Modules
- 5. Using Disks and Other Storage Media   Â
- 5.1. Two kinds of devices
- 5.2. Hard disks
- 5.3. Storage Area Networks - Draft
- 5.4. Network Attached Storage - Draft
- 5.5. Floppies
- 5.6. CD-ROMs
- 5.7. Tapes
- 5.8. Formatting
- 5.9. Partitions
- 5.10. Filesystems
- 5.11. Disks without filesystems
- 5.12. Allocating disk space
- 6. Memory Management   Â
- 6.1. What is virtual memory?
- 6.2. Creating a swap space
- 6.3. Using a swap space
- 6.4. Sharing swap spaces with other operating systems
- 6.5. Allocating swap space
- 6.6. The buffer cache
- 7. System Monitoring   Â
- 7.1. System Resources
- 7.2. Filesystem Usage
- 7.3. Monitoring Users
- 8. Boots And Shutdowns   Â
- 8.1. An overview of boots and shutdowns
- 8.2. The boot process in closer look
- 8.3. More about shutdowns
- 8.4. Rebooting
- 8.5. Single user mode
- 8.6. Emergency boot floppies
- 9. Run levels   Â
- 9.1. Run levels
- 9.2. Run levels
- 9.3. Run levels
- 9.4. Booting in single user mode
- 9.5. Booting in single user mode
- 10. Logging In And Out   Â
- 10.1. Logins via terminals
- 10.2. Logins via the network
- 10.3. X and xdm
- 10.4. X and xdm
- 10.5. Access control
- 10.6. Shell startup
- 11. Managing user accounts   Â
- 11.1. What's an account?
- 11.2. Creating a user
- 11.3. Changing user properties
- 11.4. Removing a user
- 11.5. Disabling a user temporarily
- 12. Backups   Â
- 12.1. On the importance of being backed up
- 12.2. Selecting the backup medium
- 12.3. Selecting the backup tool
- 12.4. Simple backups
- 12.5. Multilevel backups
- 12.6. What to back up
- 12.7. Compressed backups
- 13. Task Automation --To Be Added
- 14. Keeping Time   Â
- 14.1. The concept of localtime
- 14.2. The hardware and software clocks
- 14.3. Showing and setting time
- 14.4. When the clock is wrong
- 14.5. NTP - Network Time Protocol
- 14.6. Basic NTP configuration
- 14.7. NTP Toolkit
- 14.8. Some known NTP servers
- 14.9. NTP Links
- 15. System Logs --To Be Added
- 16. System Updates --To Be Added
- 17. The Linux Kernel Source
- 18. Finding Help   Â
- 18.1. Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
- 18.2. IRC
- A. GNU Free Documentation License   Â
- A.1. PREAMBLE
- A.2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
- A.3. VERBATIM COPYING
- A.4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
- A.5. MODIFICATIONS
- A.6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
- A.7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
- A.8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
- A.9. TRANSLATION
- A.10. TERMINATION
- A.11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
- A.12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
- Glossary (DRAFT, but not for long hopefully)
- Index-Draft
- List of Tables
- 5-1. Comparing Filesystem Features
- 5-2. Sizes
- 5-3. My Partitions
- 9-1. Run level numbers
- 12-1. Efficient backup scheme using many backup levels
- List of Figures
- 2-1. Some of the more important parts of the Linux kernel
- 3-1. Parts of a Unix directory tree. Dashed lines indicate partition limits.
- 5-1. A schematic picture of a hard disk.
- 5-2. A sample hard disk partitioning.
- 5-3. Three separate filesystems.
- 5-4. A sample multilevel backup schedule.
- 10-1. A sample multilevel backup schedule.
- 12-1. A sample multilevel backup schedule.
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