LPIC I Exam Cram™ 2: Linux Professional Institute Certification Exams 101 and 102

Chapter 13. System Administration

Terms you’ll need to understand:

✓	Archive
✓	Compression
✓	Daemons
✓	Facilities
✓	Levels
✓	Scheduling
✓	Services
✓	Tarball

Techniques you’ll need to master:

✓	Managing daemons
✓	Configuring system logging
✓	Troubleshooting system logs
✓	Scheduling jobs
✓	Compressing, uncompressing, and viewing archives
✓	Configuring system time

Managing System Services

One task that needs some more attention is how to start, stop, and perform other functions with daemons and services on your Linux box.

Daemons can be interacted with in several ways, depending on the system’s distribution and the installed commands and utilities.

Controlling Your Daemons

First is the common brute-force method, which involves using the full path to the daemon in the init.d directory ...