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The Linux System
Administrator's Guide
Version 0.7
Lars
Wirzenius
liw@iki.fi
Joanna Oja
viu@iki.fi
Stephen
Stafford
stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk
An introduction to system
administration of a Linux system for novices.
Legal
Notice
- Table of Contents
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Source and pre-formatted
versions available
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1. Introduction
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2. About This Book
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2.1. Acknowledgements
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2.2. Typographical
Conventions
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3. Overview of a Linux
System
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3.1. Various parts of an
operating system
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3.2. Important parts of
the kernel
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3.3. Major services in a
UNIX system
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4. Overview of
the Directory Tree
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4.1. Background
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4.2. The root filesystem
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4.3. The /etc
directory
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4.4. The /dev
directory
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4.5. The /usr
filesystem
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4.6. The /var
filesystem
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4.7. The /proc
filesystem
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5. Device Files
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5.1. The MAKEDEV
Script
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5.2. The mknod
command
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5.3. Device List
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6. Using Disks and Other
Storage Media
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6.1. Two kinds of devices
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6.2. Hard disks
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6.3. Floppies
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6.4. CD-ROMs
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6.5. Tapes
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6.6. Formatting
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6.7. Partitions
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6.8. Filesystems
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6.9. Disks without
filesystems
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6.10. Allocating disk
space
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7. Memory
Management
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7.1. What is virtual
memory?
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7.2. Creating a swap
space
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7.3. Using a swap space
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7.4. Sharing swap spaces
with other operating systems
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7.5. Allocating
swap space
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7.6. The buffer
cache
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8. Boots And
Shutdowns
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8.1. An overview of boots
and shutdowns
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8.2. The boot process in
closer look
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8.3. More about shutdowns
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8.4. Rebooting
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8.5. Single user mode
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8.6. Emergency boot
floppies
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9. init
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9.1. init comes
first
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9.2. Configuring init
to start getty: the /etc/inittab
file
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9.3. Run levels
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9.4. Special
configuration in /etc/inittab
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9.5. Booting in single
user mode
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10. Logging In
And Out
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10.1. Logins via
terminals
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10.2. Logins via the
network
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10.3. What login
does
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10.4. X and xdm
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10.5. Access control
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10.6. Shell startup
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11. Managing user accounts
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11.1. What's an account?
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11.2. Creating a user
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11.3. Changing user
properties
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11.4. Removing a user
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11.5. Disabling a user
temporarily
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12. Backups
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12.1. On the importance
of being backed up
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12.2. Selecting the
backup medium
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12.3. Selecting the
backup tool
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12.4. Simple backups
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12.5. Multilevel backups
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12.6. What to back up
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12.7. Compressed backups
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13. Keeping Time
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13.1. Time zones
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13.2. The hardware and
software clocks
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13.3. Showing and setting
time
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13.4. When the clock is
wrong
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14. Finding Help
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14.1. Newsgroups and
Mailing Lists
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14.2. IRC
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A. GNU Free Documentation
License
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0. PREAMBLE
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1. APPLICABILITY AND
DEFINITIONS
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2. VERBATIM COPYING
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3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
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4. MODIFICATIONS
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5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
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6. COLLECTIONS OF
DOCUMENTS
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7. AGGREGATION WITH
INDEPENDENT WORKS
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8. TRANSLATION
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9. TERMINATION
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10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF
THIS LICENSE
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How to use this License
for your documents
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Glossary (DRAFT, but not
for long hopefully)
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List of Tables
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6-1. Partition
types (from the Linux fdisk program).
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9-1. Run level
numbers
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12-1. Efficient
backup scheme using many backup levels
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List of Figures
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3-1. Some of
the more important parts of the Linux kernel
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4-1. Parts of a Unix
directory tree. Dashed lines indicate partition limits.
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6-1. A
schematic picture of a hard disk.
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6-2. A
sample hard disk partitioning.
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6-3. Three
separate filesystems.
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6-4. /home
and /usr
have been mounted.
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6-5. Sample
output from dumpe2fs
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10-1. Logins
via terminals: the interaction of init, getty, login,
and the shell.
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12-1. A
sample multilevel backup schedule.