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The Linux System Administrator's Guide
Version 0.9
Lars Wirzenius
Joanna Oja
Stephen Stafford
Alex Weeks
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Table of Contents
About This Book
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview of a Linux System
- 3. Overview of the Directory Tree
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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
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4.1.
Hardware Utilities
4.2.
Kernel Modules
5.
Using Disks and Other Storage Media
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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
- 7. System Monitoring
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7.1.
System Resources
7.2.
Filesystem Usage
7.3.
Monitoring Users
8.
Boots And Shutdowns
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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.
init
- 10. Logging In And Out
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10.1.
Logins via terminals
10.2.
Logins via the network
10.3.
What login does
10.4.
X and xdm
10.5.
Access control
10.6.
Shell startup
11.
Managing user accounts
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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
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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
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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
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18.1.
Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
18.2.
IRC
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GNU Free Documentation License
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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
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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
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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.
/home and /usr have been mounted.
10-1.
Logins via terminals: the interaction of init, getty, login, and the shell.
12-1.
A sample multilevel backup schedule.
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