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Slackware Linux Basics

For Slackware Linux 12.0

Daniël de Kok

Copyright © 2002-2008 Daniël de Kok

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Thu Jul 3 18:24:11 CEST 2008

Table of Contents

I. Getting started

1. About this book

1.1. Availability
1.2. Conventions

2. An introduction to Slackware Linux

2.1. What is Linux?
2.2. What is GNU/Linux?
2.3. What is Slackware Linux?
2.4. The UNIX philosophy
2.5. Free and open source software
2.6. Slackware Linux 12.0 features
2.7. Getting Slackware Linux

3. Sources of help

3.1. On your system
3.2. On the Internet

4. General concepts

4.1. Multitasking
4.2. Filesystem hierarchy
4.3. Devices

5. Installing Slackware Linux

5.1. Booting the installation CD-ROM
5.2. Partitioning a hard disk
5.3. Installing Slackware Linux

6. Custom installation

6.1. Partitioning a hard disk
6.2. Initializing and mounting filesystems
6.3. Installing packages
6.4. Post-install configuration
6.5. Automated installation script

II. Slackware Linux Basics

7. The shell

7.1. Introduction
7.2. Executing commands
7.3. Moving around
7.4. Command history
7.5. Completion
7.6. Wildcards
7.7. Redirections and pipes

8. Files and directories

8.1. Some theory
8.2. Analyzing files
8.3. Working with directories
8.4. Managing files and directories
8.5. Permissions
8.6. Finding files
8.7. Archives
8.8. Mounting filesystems
8.9. Encrypting and signing files

9. Text processing

9.1. Simple text manipulation
9.2. Regular expressions
9.3. grep

10. Process management

10.1. Theory
10.2. Analyzing running processes
10.3. Managing processes
10.4. Job control

III. Editing and typesetting

11.1. Introduction
11.2. Preparing basic LaTeX documents

IV. Electronic mail

12. Reading and writing e-mail with mutt

12.1. Introduction
12.2. Usage
12.3. Basic setup
12.4. Using IMAP
12.5. Signing/encrypting e-mails

13. Sendmail

13.1. Introduction
13.2. Installation
13.3. Configuration

V. System administration

14. User management

14.1. Introduction
14.2. Adding and removing users
14.3. Avoiding root usage with su
14.4. Disk quota

15. Printer configuration

15.1. Introduction
15.2. Preparations
15.3. Configuration
15.4. Access control
15.5. Ghostscript paper size

16.1. X Configuration
16.2. Window manager

17. Package Management

17.1. Pkgtools
17.2. Slackpkg
17.3. Getting updates through rsync
17.4. Tagfiles

18. Building a kernel

18.1. Introduction
18.2. Configuration
18.3. Compilation
18.4. Installation

19. System initialization

19.1. The bootloader
19.2. init
19.3. Initialization scripts
19.4. Hotplugging and device node management
19.5. Device firmware

20. Security

20.1. Introduction
20.2. Closing services

21. Miscellaneous

21.1. Scheduling tasks with cron
21.2. Hard disk parameters
21.3. Monitoring memory usage

VI. Network administration

22. Networking configuration

22.1. Hardware
22.2. Configuration of interfaces
22.3. Configuration of interfaces (IPv6)
22.4. Wireless interfaces
22.5. Resolving
22.6. IPv4 Forwarding

23.1. Theory
23.2. Linux configuration
23.3. Installing IPsec-Tools
23.4. Setting up IPsec with manual keying
23.5. Setting up IPsec with automatic key exchanging

24. The Internet super server

24.1. Introduction
24.2. Configuration
24.3. TCP wrappers

25.1. Introduction
25.2. Installation
25.3. User directories
25.4. Virtual hosts

26.1. Introduction
26.2. Making a caching nameserver

List of Figures

4.1. Forking of a process
4.2. The filesystem structure
5.1. The cfdisk parition tool
5.2. The setup tool
5.3. Setting up the swap partition
5.4. Selecting a partition to initialize
5.5. Formatting the partition
5.6. Selecting a filesystem type
5.7. Selecting the source medium
5.8. Selecting the disk sets
5.9. Installing the kernel
5.10. Creating a bootdisk
5.11. Selecting the default modem
5.12. Enabling hotplugging
5.13. Selecting the kind of LILO installation
5.14. Choosing the framebuffer resolution
5.15. Adding kernel parameters
5.16. Choosing where LILO should be installed
5.17. Configuring a mouse
5.18. Choosing whether GPM should be started or not
5.19. Choosing whether you would like to configure network connectivity
5.20. Setting the host name
5.21. Setting the domain name
5.22. Manual or automatic IP address configuration
5.23. Setting the IP addres
5.24. Setting the netmask
5.25. Setting the gateway
5.26. Choosing whether you want to use a nameserver or not
5.27. Setting the nameserver(s)
5.28. Confirming the network settings
5.29. Enabling/disabling startup services
5.30. Choosing whether the clock is set to UTC
5.31. Setting the timezone
5.32. Choosing the default window manager
5.33. Setting the root password
5.34. Finished
7.1. Standard input and output
7.2. A pipeline
8.1. The structure of a hard link
8.2. The structure of a symbolic link
10.1. Process states
22.1. The anatomy of an IPv6 address
22.2. Router example

List of Tables

5.1. Installation kernels
7.1. Moving by character
7.2. Deleting characters
7.3. Swapping characters
7.4. Moving by word
7.5. Deleting words
7.6. Modifying words
7.7. Moving through lines
7.8. Deleting lines
7.9. Bash wildcards
8.1. Common inode fields
8.2. Meaning of numbers in the mode octet
8.3. less command keys
8.4. System-specific setfacl flags
8.5. Parameters for the '-type' operand
8.6. Archive file extensions
9.1. tr character classes
10.1. The structure of a process
11.1. LaTeX document classes
11.2. LaTeX font styles
17.1. Tagfile fields
22.1. Important IPv6 Prefixes
26.1. DNS records

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