CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook

Chapter 3. Working with CentOS

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Creating an administrative user and becoming root with the switch user command
• Introducing mailx and forwarding the root's e-mail to an external address
• Automating tasks with cron
• Synchronizing files and directories with rsync and working towards a full system backup with cron
• Issuing customized e-mail reports with Mutt
• Using logrotate to manage logfiles
• Extending log rotation by adding NTP to logrotate
• Enabling a custom service at boot
• Evaluating current memory usage with the free and top commands and clearing the memory cache

Introduction

This chapter is a collection of recipes that introduces you to the process of running and maintaining an enterprise class server by introducing you to a series ...