December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
4h 41m
English
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Chapter 4. Configuring Your New System
Here's an overview of the recipes that we'll be covering in this chapter:
- The
systemdservice and setting runlevels - Starting and stopping
systemdservices - Configuring the
systemdjournal for persistence - Monitoring services using
journalctl - Configuring
logrotate - Managing time
- Configuring your boot environment
- Configuring
smtp
Introduction
Once your system is installed and the network is configured, it's time to start configuring everything else.
RHEL 7 comes with the systemd init daemon, which takes care of your daemon or service housekeeping and more, replacing the old SysV (UNIX System V) init system.
Its main advantages are automatic dependency handling, parallel startup of services, and the monitoring of started services ...