10 System Administration

 

This chapter is an overview of the Red Hat Linux system. It will illustrate things that you may not know about the system and things that are somewhat different from other UNIX systems. Note that most system administration task are performed with the control-panel, which is covered in chapter 8.

 
• 10.1 Filesystem Structure
  • 10.1.1 Overview of the FSSTND
    • The /etc Directory
    • The /lib Directory
    • The /sbin Directory
    • The /usr Directory
    • The /usr/local Directory
    • The /var directory
  • 10.1.2 /usr/local in Red Hat Linux
• 10.2 Special Red Hat File Locations
• 10.3 Users, Groups and User-Private Groups
  • 10.3.1 Standard Users
  • 10.3.2 Standard Groups
  • 10.3.3 User Private Groups
    • User Private Group Rationale
• 10.4 The Boot Process, Init, and Shutdown
  • 10.4.1 System V Init
  • 10.4.2 Init Runlevels
  • 10.4.3 Shutting Down