Chapter 4. Configuring Your New System

Here's an overview of the recipes that we'll be covering in this chapter:

  • The systemd service and setting runlevels
  • Starting and stopping systemd services
  • Configuring the systemd journal 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 ...

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