Chapter 16. The System Administrator and the Shell
Written by Susan Barr
Introduction
System administrators are in charge of tasks that require expertise beyond the user level, such as modifying boot scripts, adding users, fixing installation software, monitoring processes, mounting filesystems, backups, and much more. Because many of the system tasks have been automated with shell scripts, the system administrator requires knowledge of shell programming so that he or she can read and modify existing scripts, and create new scripts when the need arises. This chapter is not meant to be a definitive guide to system administration, but rather a look ...
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