1 Where to Start
We set out to write a book that could be a system administrator’s trusty companion, providing the practical advice, comfort, and basic system administration theory that you can’t get from reading manual pages. As a result, this book is designed to complement—not replace—your system’s documentation.
We think this book will help you in five ways:
• It will give you an overview of the major administrative systems, identifying the different pieces of each and explaining how they work together.
• It will introduce general administrative techniques that we have found, through experience, to be worthwhile.
• It will help ...
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