Chapter 4: Tools for Regular Operations
At this point in this book, we've installed a system, and we've covered some of the scripts we can create to automate tasks, so we've reached the point where we can focus on the system itself.
Having a system properly configured requires not only installing it but understanding how to run tasks at specific times, keeping all the services running appropriately, and configuring time synchronization, service management, boot targets (runlevels), and scheduled tasks, all of which we will be covering in this chapter.
In this chapter, you will learn how to check the statuses of services, how to start, stop, and troubleshoot them, as well as how to keep the system clock in sync for your server or your whole network. ...
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