Hi all,
Here is the outline for Basic Sys Admin and Troubleshooting Guide. As always your comments and inputs are welcome. The full documents will be available @ http://www.ShahMicro.com/guides/ from Monday onwards.
0. About this document 1. The Boot Process 2. Role of Boot Manager 2.1 Lilo (/etc/lilo.conf) 2.2 Grub (/boot/grub/grub.conf) 2.3 loadlin 3. The init process, rc scripts and run levels 4. Loging in and out 5. User management 5.1 Role of Super User (root) 5.2 Creating, modifying and deleting users and groups /etc/passwd, shadow, group and gshadow 5.3 File and Directory permissions 6. Command line tools Shell(s), File Utils, Net Utils, DNS Utils, Core Utils 7. Using GUI Admin tools Webmin, SWAT, Printtool, linuxconf... 8. Various log files and role of syslogd /var/log/* 9. Troubleshooting 9.1 Reading and analysing log files 9.2 Creating and Using Rescue Disk 9.3 Recovering Boot Manager 9.4 Using File System recovery tools (fsck) 9.5 Using Network Troubleshooting tools 9.6 Resolving Software/Package specific issues/problems 9.7 Using Manual pages and Other online Docs 9.8 Searching on the Net 9.9 Asking Smart Questions 10. Other Resources HOWTOs FAQs www.tldp.org man pages www.google.com/linux Mailing List Archives 11. Credits
TIA for your contributions and inputs. With regards,