Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition

APPENDIX AIntroducing the Basic Tools

Because this book is written for an experienced administrator, we have made a good number of assumptions about your knowledge and previous experience. In an effort to provide a helping hand to some of you without boring others, we are providing a basic introduction to several of the tools we have used throughout this book in this appendix.

This appendix only provides an introduction and usage examples for the basic tools and technologies used throughout the main text. Many other tools are described in detail as they are introduced in the chapters, and thus they won't be discussed here. In addition, tools like cfengine are covered in numerous chapters as appropriate.

In this appendix, we provide enough information ...