Linux Newbie Administrator Guide (LNAG) LINUX NEWBIE ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE ver. 0.193 2002−12−14 by Stan, Peter and Marie Klimas The latest version of this guide is available at http://sunsite.dk/linux−newbie. Copyright (c) by Peter and Stan Klimas. Your feedback, comments, corrections, and improvements are appreciated. Send them to
[email protected] This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0, 8 or later http://opencontent.org/openpub/ with the modification noted in lnag_licence.html. Intro. We are relative Linux newbies (with Linux since Summer 1998). We run mostly RedHat and Mandrake −> the solutions might not be directly applicable to other Linux distributions (although most of them probably will be). Hope this helps; we try to be as practical as possible. Of course, we provide no warranty whatsoever. If you spotted a bad error or would like to contribute a part on a topic of your choice, we would like to hear from you. General description of this Guide. A complete reference for new Linux users who wish to set up and administer their own Linux home computer, workstation and/or their home or small office network. The answers are meant to be simple, with just sufficient detail, and always supported with a readily usable example. The work is still in progress, but we hope the Guide can be helpful already. We welcome your corrections, advice, criticism, links, translations, and CONTRIBUTIONS. Pls note that there are no ad banners on our pages. Conventions: <> = single special or function key on the keyboard.