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Introduction

Welcome to the Ofﬁcial Red Hat Linux Reference Guide.

The Ofﬁcial Red Hat Linux Reference Guide contains useful information about your Red Hat Linux

system. From fundamental concepts, such as the structure of the Red Hat Linux ﬁlesystem, to the ﬁner

points of system security and authentication control, we hope you will ﬁnd this book to be a valuable

resource.

This guide is for you if you want to learn a bit more about how your Red Hat Linux system works.

Topics that you will explore include the following:

• Booting Red Hat Linux — Information about runlevels, rc.d directories, and how to start your

favorite applications at boot time.

• The /proc ﬁle system — Provides you with the kernel’s view of the system.

• The GRUB boot loader — A behind the scenes look at GRUB and how it boots your system.

• The ext3 File System — Learn how to add or remove the ext3 ﬁle system from storage devices.

• System and network security guides — Find out the most common methods used by attackers to

compromise your system and how to prevent security problems.

• Apache directives — A look at the default Apache conﬁguration and the options available.

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with the contents of the Ofﬁcial Red Hat Linux

Installation Guide concerning installation issues, the Ofﬁcial Red Hat Linux Getting Started Guide for

basic Linux concepts and the Ofﬁcial Red Hat Linux Customization Guide for general customization

instructions. The Ofﬁcial Red Hat Linux Reference Guide contains information about advanced topics

that may not affect every user, depending upon how they use their Red Hat Linux system.

HTML and PDF versions of all Ofﬁcial Red Hat Linux manuals are available online at

http://www.redhat.com/docs.

Note

Although this manual reﬂects the most current information possible, you should read the Red Hat

Linux Release Notes for information that may not have been available prior to our documentation

being ﬁnalized. The Release Notes can be found on the Red Hat Linux CD #1 and online at:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux

1. Finding Appropriate Documentation

You need documentation that is appropriate to your level of Linux expertise. Otherwise, you might

feel overwhelmed or not ﬁnd the necessary information to answer your questions. The Ofﬁcial Red

Hat Linux Reference Guide deals with the more technical aspects and options of your Red Hat Linux

system. This section will help you decide whether to look in this manual for the information you need

or consider other Red Hat Linux manuals, including online sources, in your search.

Three different categories of people use Red Hat Linux, and each of these categories require differ-

ent sets of documentation and informative sources. To help you ﬁgure out where you should start,

determine your own experience level:

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