Linux Mint System Administrator's

Chapter 1: Introduction to Linux Mint 7
Overview 7
A bit of history 8
Open source project 8
Contributing to the project 9
Why Linux Mint is different 9
Editions 10
Summary 11
References 11
Chapter 2: Installing Linux Mint 13
Creating a bootable Linux Mint USB flash drive 13
Time for action – downloading and burning the ISO image 14
Installing Linux Mint from a flash drive 15
Time for action – booting and installing Linux Mint 15
Booting Linux Mint 18
Time for action – booting Linux Mint for the first time 18
Summary 19
Chapter 3: Basic Shell 21
What's a shell? 22
Where are you? 23
Time for action – learning pwd and cd commands 23
Running commands 25
Time for action – launching a program from the command line 25
Search commands 26
Time for action – using the which command 26
Listing, examining, and finding files 27
Time for action – using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands 27

Pipelines and redirection 29
Time for action – using pipelines and redirection by applying different commands 29
Setting environment variables 30
Time for action – setting the PATH environment variable 30
Displaying command history 31
Time for action – using the history command 31
Creating your first shell script 32
Time for action – creating and executing a shell script 32
How to get help 34
Time for action – using the man and the info commands 35
Summary 37
Chapter 4: Account Provisioning 39
Who am I? 39
Time for action – finding out the current user 40
Becoming the root user 40
Time for action – using the sudo command to become the root user 40
Changing password 41
Time for action – changing the password for a user 41
Adding a new user 44
Time for action – changing the password for a user 44
Adding a new group 46
Time for action – creating a new group called develop 46
Adding a user to a group 48
Time for action – adding the user luke to the develop group 48
Changing user privileges 49
Time for action – granting permissions to a user for monitoring system logs 49
Summary 50
Chapter 5: Installing, Removing, and Upgrading Software 51
Installing software 51
Time for action – installing AbiWord word processor 52
Removing software 55
Time for action – removing the AbiWord program 55
Upgrading software 56
Time for action – upgrading software through the Update Manager tool 56
Summary 59
Chapter 6: Configuring hardware 61
Detecting hardware 61
Time for action – how to display the device information 62
Configuring your monitor 64
Time for action – changing the screen resolution 64