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CentOS Quick Start Guide

By : Shiwang Kalkhanda
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CentOS Quick Start Guide

By: Shiwang Kalkhanda

Overview of this book

Linux kernel development has been the worlds largest collaborative project to date. With this practical guide, you will learn Linux through one of its most popular and stable distributions. This book will introduce you to essential Linux skills using CentOS 7. It describes how a Linux system is organized, and will introduce you to key command-line concepts you can practice on your own. It will guide you in performing basic system administration tasks and day-to-day operations in a Linux environment. You will learn core system administration skills for managing a system running CentOS 7 or a similar operating system, such as RHEL 7, Scientific Linux, and Oracle Linux. You will be able to perform installation, establish network connectivity and user and process management, modify file permissions, manage text files using the command line, and implement basic security administration after covering this book. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of working with Linux using the command line.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we began with learning about different types of permissions in Linux systems and how to manage them using numbers as well as using symbols. Then we learned about the managing of file ownership using the chown and chgrp commands. This was followed by understanding special permissions for executable and directories. Then we learned how to manage default permissions. Finally, we looked at how to view, set, and delete ACLs on files and directories in CentOS 7.

In the next chapter, we will learn about process management in CentOS 7. Process management is an essential skill that is required to manage your system resources. It will lay the solid foundation for optimizing system performance.