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Documents for system administrators
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<h1>Documents for system administrators</h1>
This page contains some links to documents that are of use for system
administrators. Not all of the documents are necessarily installed.<p>
Sysadmins should look especially at manual page
<a href="man-in-section-8.html">section 8</a>.
The LDP books Network Administrators' Guide and System Administrators'
Guide (draft) are important.
<p>
<h2>Software installation</h2>
The Debian package management tools are
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=dselect/8">dselect</a>,
and
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=dpkg/8">dpkg</a>.
With them, it is quite simple to install, upgrade, and uninstall
programs.
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For programs installed from source, you usually need to use
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=make/1">make</a>
or
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=imake/1x">imake</a>.
You may need some programming skills to compile some programs,
if they haven't been ported to Linux already. Read the README
or other documentation for each package for closer details.
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<h2>Backups and archives</h2>
Traditional tools for making backups are
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=tar/1">tar</a>,
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=cpio/1">cpio</a>, and
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=dump/8">dump</a>.
Also available for Debian are
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=afio/1">afio</a>,
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=tob/1">tob</a>, and
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=taper/1">taper</a>.
These tools can also be used for archiving. They're mostly intended
for tape drives.
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<h2>User administration</h2>
Users are created with
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=adduser/8">adduser</a>,
groups with
<a href="/cgi-bin/dwww?type=man&location=addgroup/8">addgroup</a>.
There are currently no good tools for removing either, you have
to edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group by hand.<p>
In Debian, each user `foo' has his own group `foo'.
Most other Unix systems are different. You may want to read
<a href="per-user-group-reason.html">the reason for this</a>.<p>
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