Lecture 4

Notes

Booting (cont)

  • Sequence of events at startup
  • Services and daemons

    Basic Administrative Tasks

  • Adding users
  • Adding resources
  • Adding software

    Examples

  • add_user_to_passwd script here. Use this passwd file and this group file. Before you use it, read the source. There will be a command that you need to run before the script works.
  • Software packages: rcs (RPM format and Tarred, gzipped format).