Summary

In this chapter, you learned to perform a number of common system administration tasks using graphical tools. Specifically, you learned the following:

  • How to use the System Monitor tool to list, reprioritize, and kill running processes

  • How to use the Service Configuration tool to change the list of services that are started each time your computer boots, and to start, stop, and restart running services

  • How to use the Network Device Control tool to manage your network interfaces, including selecting between static and dynamic IP configurations

  • How to use the User Manager tool to add or delete users or groups and to edit group memberships

  • How to use the System Logs tool to view the most recent entries in various Linux logs and to identify potential ...

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