11 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 9.

11.1 Filesystem Structure

11.2 Special Red Hat File Locations

11.3 Users, Groups and User-Private Groups

11.4 User Authentication with PAM

11.5 The Boot Process, Init, and Shutdown

11.6 Rescue Modes