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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration

You're reading from   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration A comprehensive Linux system administration guide for RHCSA certification exam candidates

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248806
Length 530 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Scott McCarty Scott McCarty
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Miguel Pérez Colino Miguel Pérez Colino
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
2. Chapter 1: Getting RHEL Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: RHEL 9 Advanced Installation Options 4. Chapter 3: Basic Commands and Simple Shell Scripts 5. Chapter 4: Tools for Regular Operations 6. Chapter 5: Securing Systems with Users, Groups, and Permissions 7. Chapter 6: Enabling Network Connectivity 8. Chapter 7: Adding, Patching, and Managing Software 9. Part 2 – Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
10. Chapter 8: Administering Systems Remotely 11. Chapter 9: Securing Network Connectivity with firewalld 12. Chapter 10: Keeping Your System Hardened with SELinux 13. Chapter 11: System Security Profiles with OpenSCAP 14. Part 3 – Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
15. Chapter 12: Managing Local Storage and Filesystems 16. Chapter 13: Flexible Storage Management with LVM 17. Chapter 14: Advanced Storage Management with Stratis and VDO 18. Chapter 15: Understanding the Boot Process 19. Chapter 16: Kernel Tuning and Managing Performance Profiles with tuned 20. Chapter 17: Managing Containers with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo 21. Part 4 – Practical Exercises
22. Chapter 18: Practice Exercises – 1 23. Chapter 19: Practice Exercise – 2 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing system services with systemd

In this section, you will learn how to manage system services, runtime targets, and all about the service status with systemd. You will also learn how to manage system boot targets and services that should start at system boot.

systemd (which you can learn a bit about at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) is defined as a system daemon that’s used to manage the system. It came as a rework of how a system boots and starts, and it looks at the limitations related to the traditional way of doing it.

When we think about the system starting, we have the initial kernel and ramdisk load and execution, but right after that, services and scripts take control to make filesystems available. This helps prepare the services that provide the functionality we want from our system, such as the following:

  • Hardware detection
  • Additional filesystem activation
  • Network initialization (wired, wireless, and so on)
  • Network...
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