System Administration
Introduction
This chapter concentrates on the miscellaneous administration activities that are not directly associated with FOXMAN‑UN. Most of the topics described in this chapter would normally be referred to as System Administration, as opposed to FOXMAN‑UN administration.
System administration is a large subject, and this chapter can only provide a brief introduction. For further details the appropriate system documentation has to be consulted.
Most of the activities described in this chapter require root privileges.
The following subjects are briefly described:
• Policies for dealing with (and preventing) hardware failures.
• Backing up the workstation.
• Preparing for disk failure.
• Creating and managing user accounts.
• Managing disk space.
• Shutting down the workstation.