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Chap 1 Flashcards

1
Q

What are the essential tasks of a sysadmin ?

A

Controlling access

Adding hardware

Automating tasks

Overseeing backups

Installing and upgrading software

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Maintaining local documentation

Vigilantly monitoring security

Tuning performance

Developing site policies

Working with vendors

Fire fighting

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2
Q

What to learn as prerequisite ?

A 
vi 
Bash
Python or Ruby
expect
regular expressions
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3
Q

How many sections do the man pages have ?

A

9

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4
Q

What is the section 1 of the man pages ?

A

User Level Commands and Applications

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5
Q

What is the section 2 of the man pages

A

System Calls and Kernel Error Codes

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6
Q

What is the section 3 of the man pages

A

Library Calls

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7
Q

What is the section 4 of the man pages about ?

A

Device Drivers and Network protocols

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8
Q

What is the section 5 of the man pages

A

Standard files formats

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9
Q

What is the section 6 of the man pages

A

Games and demonstrations

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10
Q

What is the section 7 of the man pages

A

Miscellaneous files and documents

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11
Q

What is the section 8 of the man pages ?

A

System Administration Commands

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12
Q

What is the section 9 of the man pages ?

A

Obscure kernel specs and interfaces

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13
Q

How to find something in a specific section of man ?

A

man [sectionnumber] something

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14
Q

How to list man pages that have a keyword in their one-line synopses ?

A

man -k keyword

apropos keyword

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15
Q

The keywords database can become outdated. If you add additional man pages to your system, you may need to rebuild this file. Which command will help you to do this ?

A

makewhatis (Red Hat and FreeBSD)

mandb (Ubuntu).

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16
Q

Where are man source code stored ?

A

/usr/share/man

17
Q

Which format is used by man source code pages ?

A

NROFF input

Compressed with gzip

18
Q

Where is the cache of formatted man pages stored ?

A

/var/cache/man or /usr/share/man if the appropriate directories are writable.

19
Q

Which man page repositories are searched by the command man ?

A

The envvar $MANPATH

command: manpath

Unix LINUX Administration (2 decks)

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