System management

From GoboLinux Knowledge Base

While maintaining a system, there's a number of routine tasks that you'll probably do every now and then: installing new versions of programs, removing old versions, handling users, and so on.

For most administrative tasks, using GoboLinux is no different than any other distribution. You'll mount devices with mount and handle partitions with the /etc/fstab file (which, translated to the GoboLinux world, lives in /System/Settings); you'll add users with useradd (though be sure to check out the convenience script AddUser); you'll handle disk space with df, etc.

Managing installed programs, on the other hand, is done in a very GoboLinux-specific way. This chapter will cover the process and tools involved.

[edit] Subtopics:

1. Keeping the system up-to-date