Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Though the prompts might look the same (though generally, these distributions don't set Bash as the default shell; that's a Linux thing), but the underlying system can be vastly different from the familiar GNU userland that you're used to.

When we run uname, as we've discussed previously, we output the kernel of the system we've logged on to. 

Hopefully it's a Linux box, especially if you've been held against your will and asked to fix something, but even if you're somewhat good with Linux, things should be relatively familiar. Processes run, the default tools are the same, and you can read README files or man pages to understand what you don't yet.

The filesystem check we did isn't the most scientific, but you can usually ...