Booting and Installing the Operating System |
Selecting and preparing installation media
The boot process
Preparing the disks. Basic disk partitioning
Sharing disks among O.S.s
Boot loaders |
Processes and software packages |
Managing and monitoring processes
Tracing system calls
Process privileges and priorities
The /proc filesystem
Signals
Software packages: packages and ports
Administering software packages and installing software |
Automating administrative tasks |
Shell scripting
Monitoring system: logs
Schedulling execution of tasks: the cron and at commands
Starting and stopping system services
Initialization files and boot scripts |
Managing internet and intranet services |
fileservers
DHCP
ssh
web
mail |