documentation Linux Mandrake

Linux-Mandrake

Reference manual

MandrakeSoft

 

 

 

November 2000

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/


Table of Contents
Preface
1. Legal Notice
2. Authors and translators
3. Tools used in the making of this manual
4. Note From the Editor
5. Conventions used in this book
1. Introduction
2. Basic Unix concepts
2.1. Users and groups
2.2. File basics
2.3. Processes
2.4. Small introduction to the command line
3. Introduction to the command line
3.1. File Handling Utilities
3.2. Handling File Attributes
3.3. shell globbing patterns and regular expressions
3.4. Redirections and pipes
3.5. Command-line Completion
3.6. Starting and handling background processes: job control
3.7. A Final Word
4. Text Editing: Emacs and VI
4.1. Emacs
4.2. VI: the ancestor
4.3. A last word...
5. Printing
5.1. Installing and managing printers
5.2. Printing documents
6. Samba
6.1. What is Samba?
6.2. What is it able to do?
6.3. Samba Installation
6.4. Description of the file /etc/smb.conf
6.5. Checks and launch
6.6. Some tools
6.7. GUI tool: SWAT
7. MSEC -- Mandrake Security tools
7.1. Introducing MSEC
7.2. Setting your security level
7.3. Security levels features
8. Organization of the file tree
8.1. Shareable and unshareable, static and variable data
8.2. The root directory: /
8.3. /usr: the big one
8.4. /var: data modifiable during use
8.5. /etc: configuration files
9. Filesystems and mount points
9.1. Principles
9.2. Partitioning a hard disk and formatting a partition
9.3. The mount and umount commands
9.4. The /etc/fstab file
9.5. A note about the supermount feature
10. The GNU/Linux filesystem: ext2fs
10.1. Everything is a file
10.2. Links
10.3. "Anonymous" pipes and named pipes
10.4. "Special" files: character mode and block mode files
10.5. Symbolic links and the limitation of "hard" links
10.6. File attributes
11. The /proc filesystem
11.1. Information about processes
11.2. Information on hardware
11.3. The /proc/sys subdirectory
12. The startup files: init "System V"
12.1. In the beginning was init
12.2. Runlevels
13. Process control
13.1. More about processes
13.2. Information on processes: ps and pstree
13.3. Sending signals to processes: kill, killall and top
14. Compiling and installing new kernels
14.1. Where to find kernel sources
14.2. Unpacking sources, patching the kernel (if necessary)
14.3. Configuring the kernel
14.4. Compiling the kernel and modules, installing modules
14.5. Installing the new kernel
15. Building and installing free software
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Decompression
15.3. Configuration
15.4. Compilation
15.5. Installation
15.6. Support
15.7. Acknowledgments
16. Command Line Utilities
16.1. grep: General Regular Expression Parse
16.2. find: find files according to certain criteria
16.3. crontab: reporting or editing your crontab file
16.4. at: schedule a command, but only once
16.5. tar: Tape ARchiver
16.6. bzip2 and gzip: data compression programs
16.7. Many, many more...
A. The GNU General Public License
A.1. Preamble
A.2. Terms and conditions for copying,  distribution  and  modification
Glossary
Index
List of Figures
2-1. Graphical mode login session
2-2. Console mode login session
2-3. The terminal icon in the KDE panel
4-1. Emacs, editing two files at once
4-2. Emacs, before copying the text block
4-3. Emacs, after having copied the text block
4-4. Starting position in VIm
4-5. VIm, before copying the text block
4-6. VIm, after having copied the text block
5-1. The CUPS welcome page
5-2. The empty CUPS printers list
5-3. The CUPS login dialog
5-4. Adding a new printer, step 1
5-5. Adding a new printer, step 2
5-6. Adding a new printer, step 3
5-7. Adding a new printer, step 4
5-8. The printer status page
5-9. The XPP main window
5-10. The XPP file selection
5-11. The Netscape printing dialog
5-12. The XPP basic options dialog
5-13. The XPP text options dialog
5-14. The XPP advanced options dialog
6-1. Connecting to Samba
6-2. The SWAT welcome page
9-1. A not yet mounted filesystem
9-2. Filesystem is now mounted
13-1. xkill icon
13-2. Example of execution of top
1. ASCII-Table
2. ISO-8859-1 Table
3. ISO-8859-15 Table

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