Chapter 3
Performing Daily System Administration Tasks
Topics covered in this chapter:
- Performing Job Management Tasks
- Monitoring and Managing Systems and Processess
- Scheduling Jobs
- Mounting Devices
- Working with Links
- Creating Backups
- Managing Printers
- Setting Up System Logging
In the previous chapter, you learned how to start a terminal window. As an administrator, you start many tasks from a terminal window. To start a task, you type a specific command. For example, you type ls to display a listing of files in the current directory. Every command you type from the perspective of the shell is started as a job. Most commands are started as a job in the foreground. In other words, once the command is started, it shows the result on the terminal ...
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