Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed

By William Ball

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Lead Authors
  • About the Contributing Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • I. Red Hat Linux Installation and User Services
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Linux
  • Chapter 2. Installation of Your Red Hat System
  • Chapter 3. LILO and Other Boot Managers
  • Chapter 4. Configuring the X Window System, Version 11
  • Chapter 5. Window Managers
  • Chapter 6. Connecting to the Internet
  • Chapter 7. IRC, ICQ, and Chat Clients
  • Chapter 8. Using Multimedia and Graphics Clients
  • II. Configuring Services
  • Chapter 9. System Startup and Shutdown
    • The Boot Process
    • The Initialization Process and Startup Scripts
    • linuxconf and Managing Your Services
    • Shutting Down the Linux System
    • When the System Crashes
    • Summary
  • Chapter 10. SMTP and Protocols
  • Chapter 11. FTP
  • Chapter 12. Apache Server
  • Chapter 13. Internet News
  • Chapter 14. Domain Name Service and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • Chapter 15. NIS: Network Information Service
  • Chapter 16. NFS: Network Filesystem
  • Chapter 17. Samba
  • III. System Administration and Management
  • Chapter 18. Linux Filesystems, Disks, and Other Devices
  • Chapter 19. Printing with Linux
  • Chapter 20. TCP/IP Network Management
  • Chapter 21. Linux System Administration
  • Chapter 22. Backup and Restore
  • Chapter 23. System Security
  • IV. Red Hat Development and Productivity
  • Chapter 24. Linux C/C++ Programming Tools
  • Chapter 25. Shell Scripting
  • Chapter 26. Automating Tasks
  • Chapter 27. Configuring and Building Kernels
  • Chapter 28. Emulators, Tools, and Window Clients
  • V. Appendixes
  • A. The Linux Documentation Project
  • B. Top Linux Commands and Utilities
  • C. The GNU General Public License
  • D. Red Hat Linux RPM Package Listings

Summary

Understanding how Linux boots and starts software services can be essential when tracking down problems or trying to troubleshoot filesystem or service problems. Hopefully, you've learned about Linux runlevels and how to start and stop processes properly using Red Hat Linux. Understanding the software tools available for the system administrator's toolbox and arming yourself with emergency bootdisks ahead of time can make the difference between failure and success when disaster (such as a hardware failure or system security breach) strikes. This chapter also covered a number of topics related to starting and shutting down Linux, including the following:

• How to use linuxconf
• How to properly shut down your Linux system
• How to properly restart your Linux system
• The do's and don'ts of maintaining your system
• How to possibly undelete a file
• How to possibly recover and remount a Linux partition

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