Ok folks this week it's the admin guide. I have fleshed out the skeleton a bit from the existing admin guide. The purpose of this is to formulate the sub topics, many of which will be easier to write than trying to tackle the whole topic in one fell swoop. For example instead of attempting to tackle the whole printing document many of us in a half hour could do up the printing to PDFs sub topic. The concept is to add and edit this rough overview of the topics/subtopics. A good way to work this I suspect would be to use the >> diff convention to denote suggested changes at the start of your commments/addition. I'll try to put this in the WIKI if I EVER get my account there straitened out. Will make it much easier to read. This is no means exhaustive, except to read :) I've forgotten a ton of stuff. This is just to get the ball rolling. Next week I'll do the same for the User/Desktop guide. Admin guide Undestanding the dir structure * The Filesystem Heirarchy * Locations for Software (commonly asked question) * Locations for Data Working with user accounts Understanding Logins and Sessions Local user accounts LDAP link to LDAP section NIS Link to SAMBA doc for interaction with windoze. "Windows account interaction" Securing User Accounts Good password pracitices and tools No login accounts and SUDO accounts Groups Overview Management Link to VPN section, "VPN users" How to reset the root password (link to Rescue ops resetting root pw) This is specific to the tools. Local user accounts can be cover with both GUI and CLI tools. For LDAP the process is very different than for a local user. Best covered in the sub section in which the context is relavent. Feel that simply groups will be more intuitive than Managing groups which implies technical expertise. Those who have no idea what a group is will be less inclined to click on managing groups than just plain groups. Those seeking management tips will not be deterred by the simplified title. By simply titling it groups it implies and overview while managing groups implies a lack of an overview. Permissions and Access Control Overview What they are Organization (ie why home dir should never be world read write) Numeric and alphanumeric meanings chmod usage Using ACL * Managing Permissions (on files and directories) * Understanding Access Control Lists (they have to be acknowledged, but not all software actually supports them) Managing storage and partitions Quick what is a parition Extended, logical, primary Common partitioning schemes Short description/common usage reasons and link to LVM doc File system types and link to mounting usage and tips Ext 2 & 3 FAT NTFS Other Working with fstab Link to sub section in Samba doc "Mounting Windows shares" Link to Network explorer/Network manager services. Backups Overview Amanda and GP back up software. Using secondary drives as backups and links to SW used for that Link to Rsynch doc Using external media Link to tape drives CDRom/DVD backup software Short tutorial on using DD Short tutorial on using tar and gzip for copying/archiving large dir stuctures Working with disks and removable storage File system types (almost redundant with partitioning but more detail on Common uses and basic does and don'ts.) Link to LVM guide Link to mounting guide /mnt and /net purpose and use. Link to dir overview covering these 2. USB/flash drives Short overview and common usage. Troubleshooting FAQ SCSI devices Short overview and common usage. Troubleshooting FAQ Zip and Syquest drives Short overview and common usage. Troubleshooting FAQ Hot swap SATA and SCSI Short overview and common usage. Troubleshooting FAQ Floppies Short overview and common usage. MDOS tools Troubleshooting FAQ Link to Tape drives Short overview and common usage. Troubleshooting FAQ Networked file systems (suggesting a change from using "the" Network file system Overview that includes differences, advantages and short capability comparision NFS4 Configuration Exporting Mounting Trouble shooting NFS through firewalls (NFS3) Configuration Exporting Mounting Trouble shooting SMB Linux to Linux guide Configuration Exporting Mounting Trouble shooting Working with Windows shares link to SMB guide GFS Configuration Exporting Mounting Trouble shooting Link to Rsynch doc Managing Software Overview Yum Yum GUIs RPM Overview Checking for installed software and versions Manual install options Repair and troubleshooting Tarballs/GZIP 2/Zip Extracting the files Type I (./configure then make) Type II (Binary install packages) Type III (other) Binary installations Apt-get Managing Services GUI Command line Primitives Shouldn't this be under security? I did not cover it in my draft on managing services because this seems to me to be a security not services topic. Modifying the Startup Process * Understanding Boot Loaders * Advanced Boot Options * Managing Kernels * Running Commands on Startup Using the Common UNIX Printing System CUPs Overview Adding a Printer local Network Linux Network Windows Link to printers supported by Fedora Sharing a printer Managing Print Jobs Creating a print server LPR and CLI tools Print ques Printing to PDFs Modifying the X Window Graphics System Understanding the X Window System Overview of desktop managers Overveiew of desktops link to KDE doc link to Gnome doc link to XFCE doc link to Beyrl doc Window maker Sawfish and others Switching between desktop managers and adding new ones. Switchdesk Remotely controlling a Linux machine Link to SSH tunneling Link to X11fowarding Link to VNC Tunneling VNC through SSH Isn't there a new third way? Remotely controlling a windows machine Link to VNC Rdesktop Consoles overview and usage Adding the X Window System (after installation) Configuring Graphics Hardware (system-config-display) Location of files and what they do Common modifications Resolution Dual heads Networking Configuring your nic cards DHCP Static Hosts Configuring DNS/bind Configuring in Linux to be Master browser in Windows network * Selecting Graphical Desktops (switching between them, and adding new ones) You mean as in X11 forwarding, VNC, etc? To me sounds confusing. I broke those out into separate sub topics. Isn't that part of the specific method for connecting remotely? Since all of the remote desktop methods are going to be referenced in other sections I feel it'd be better to give them their own topic page. These are also topics people will directly search for and it would be helpful to have them up at a higher level. Monitoring the System Logs /var/log messages dmesg secure others Default locations for HTTPD, MySQL, Postgress and other log files. Link to SELinux troubleshooter RCP Top, Htop, Ntop and related tools Sysguard ps GUI log tools Systat and related tools Link to Tripwire, AIDE and other IDS systems Using tail and related tools Enabling E-mail Reports Configuring Advanced Logging (setting up a log analyzer, redirecting syslog to a separate server) Link to nmap guide Network monitors CLI tools GUI tools like etherape Network manager guide SchedulingTasks Understanding cron and anacron GUI cron and anacron tools Scheduling a Task Using crontab Schedules Note that /etc/cron.* directories are sufficient for most tasks, but crontab ought to be mentioned for more precise control. File sharing Setting up shared dirs Using groups for file sharing Collaboration software Security Firewalls Link to securing a Fedora system best practices Patching your system Ports Link to common ports list link to Nmap Link to RCP Permissions from a security context SELinux Understanding SELinux Adjusting the SELinux Policy (using system-config-securitylevel) Repairing File Contexts with fixfiles Rootkits Rootkit hunter Shells from a security perspective Link to jail shells Link to no login shells User accounts Philosophy Link to security subsection of user section. Deny hosts and other log watchers IDS systems Vulnerability scanners Password best practices guide Links to Linux security resources Why to not use RSH, Telnet and FTP Link to external securing apache tips VPNs Link to vpn section likely to be referenced from several documents. LVM (Logical Volume Management) is the default for Fedora systems. * Understanding LVM (overview, see Installation Guide) * Adding a Drive (includes formatting partitions) * Resizing LVM Partitions * LVM Snapshotting The LVM HOWTO provides detailed information: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Managing Software Wouldn't under managing software be a good home for yum? Where else would it be referenced or searched for? Confused by this title. Are you talking about installing Firefox extensions and enabling Java script installation when you mean web applications? When it comes to scripts those are fairly rare today. How many packages do you install that are not either an RPM or a type I tarball or a binary (which is sometimes a script but to the end user looks like an executable) ? But people know it as tarballs. The words source code will strike fear into many. Probably best to call them tar balls as that is the common usage and also a gentler term for the technophobic. But is that NFS4 or NFS? Lots of people keep NFS 3 around because it's there, it works and why change something that isn't broken? What are the advantages/disadvantages of NFS4 vrs NFS3? They clearly work in different ways. So I broke that up into NFS and NFS4 sections.