This part covers basic system administration tasks such as keyboard configuration, date and time configuration, and managing users and groups.

Chapter 1, Language and Keyboard Configuration covers basic language and keyboard setup. Read this chapter if you need to configure the language of your desktop, change the keyboard layout, or add the keyboard layout indicator to the panel.

Chapter 2, Date and Time Configuration covers the configuration of the system date and time. Read this chapter if you need to change the date and time setup, or configure the system to synchronize the clock with a remote Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.

Chapter 3, Managing Users and Groups covers the management of users and groups in a graphical user interface and on the command line. Read this chapter if you need to manage users and groups on your system, or enable password aging.

This part describes how to manage software packages on Fedora using both Yum and the PackageKit suite of graphical package management tools.

Chapter 4, Yum describes the Yum package manager. Read this chapter for information how to search, install, update, and uninstall packages on the command line.

Chapter 5, PackageKit describes the PackageKit suite of graphical package management tools. Read this chapter for information how to search, install, update, and uninstall packages using a graphical user interface.

This part describes how to configure the network on Fedora.

Chapter 6, Network Interfaces explores various interface configuration files, interface control scripts, and network function files located in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory. Read this chapter for information how to use these files to configure network interfaces.

This part provides information how to configure services and daemons, configure authentication, and enable remote logins.

Chapter 7, Services and Daemons covers the configuration of the services to be run when a system is started, and provides information on how to start, stop, and restart the services on the command line using the systemctl utility.

Chapter 8, Configuring Authentication describes how to configure user information retrieval from Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Network Information Service (NIS), and Winbind user account databases, and provides an introduction to the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). Read this chapter if you need to configure authentication on your system.

Chapter 9, OpenSSH describes how to enable a remote login via the SSH protocol. It covers the configuration of the sshd service, as well as a basic usage of the ssh, scp, sftp client utilities. Read this chapter if you need a remote access to a machine.

This part discusses various topics related to servers such as how to set up a Web server or share files and directories over the network.

Chapter 10, DHCP Servers guides you through the installation of a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server and client. Read this chapter if you need to configure DHCP on your system.

Chapter 11, DNS Servers introduces you to Domain Name System (DNS), explains how to install, configure, run, and administer the BIND DNS server. Read this chapter if you need to configure a DNS server on your system.

Chapter 12, Web Servers focuses on the Apache HTTP Server 2.2, a robust, full-featured open source web server developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Read this chapter if you need to configure a web server on your system.

Chapter 13, Mail Servers reviews modern email protocols in use today, and some of the programs designed to send and receive email, including Postfix, Sendmail, Fetchmail, and Procmail. Read this chapter if you need to configure a mail server on your system.

Chapter 14, Directory Servers covers the installation and configuration of OpenLDAP 2.4, an open source implementation of the LDAPv2 and LDAPv3 protocols. Read this chapter if you need to configure a directory server on your system.

Chapter 15, File and Print Servers guides you through the installation and configuration of Samba, an open source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, and vsftpd, the primary FTP server shipped with Fedora. Additionally, it explains how to use the Printer Configuration tool to configure printers. Read this chapter if you need to configure a file or print server on your system.

This part describes various tools that allow system administrators to monitor system performance, automate system tasks, and report bugs.

Chapter 16, System Monitoring Tools discusses applications and commands that can be used to retrieve important information about the system. Read this chapter to learn how to gather essential system information.

Chapter 17, Viewing and Managing Log Files describes the configuration of the rsyslog daemon, and explains how to locate, view, and monitor log files. Read this chapter to learn how to work with log files.

Chapter 18, Automating System Tasks provides an overview of the cron, at, and batch utilities. Read this chapter to learn how to use these utilities to perform automated tasks.

Chapter 19, Automatic Bug-Reporting Tool (ABRT) concentrates on ABRT, a system service and a set of tools to collect crash data and send a report to the relevant issue tracker. Read this chapter to learn how to use ABRT on your system.

This part covers various tools that assist administrators with kernel customization.

Chapter 20, Manually Upgrading the Kernel provides important information how to manually update a kernel package using the rpm command instead of yum. Read this chapter if you cannot update a kernel package with the Yum package manager.

Chapter 21, Working with Kernel Modules explains how to display, query, load, and unload kernel modules and their dependencies, and how to set module parameters. Additionally, it covers specific kernel module capabilities such as using multiple Ethernet cards and using channel bonding. Read this chapter if you need to work with kernel modules.

Chapter 22, The kdump Crash Recovery Service explains how to configure, test, and use the kdump service in Fedora, and provides a brief overview of how to analyze the resulting core dump using the crash debugging utility. Read this chapter to learn how to enable kdump on your system.

This appendix concentrates on the RPM Package Manager (RPM), an open packaging system used by Fedora, and the use of the rpm utility. Read this appendix if you need to use rpm instead of yum.

This appendix outlines some of the files and directories located in the /etc/sysconfig/ directory. Read this appendix if you want to learn more about these files and directories, their function, and their contents.

This appendix explains the concept of a virtual file system, and describes some of the top-level files and directories within the proc file system (that is, the /proc/ directory). Read this appendix if you want to learn more about this file system.