A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

16. Administration Tasks

In This Chapter

Configuring User and Group Accounts 602

Backing Up Files 605

Scheduling Tasks 611

System Reports 615

parted: Reports on and Partitions a Hard Disk 617

logrotate: Manages Log Files 621

rsyslogd: Logs System Messages 623

Solving Problems 627

Speeding Up the System 629

Keeping the System Secure 630

Disk Quota System 634

MySQL 635

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Add and manage user accounts using system-config-users

• Add and manage user accounts from the command line

• Backup files using tar and cpio

• Schedule tasks in the future using crond, anacron, and at

• Monitor the system with various tools including vmstat and top

• Monitor and manage log files

• Manage disk partitions ...