Administrator's Cookbook

Here we explain how to do relatively simple but important administrative tasks. Naturally, for most/all of these, you will need administrator privileges. (This list is essentially never-ending, and the initial 10 sets of tasks listed below are merely a beginning; please add more as you see fit.)

• Principles

• Recover 'hung' CWs

• Reconfiguring Screen Resolution

• Add/Remove users

• Add Groups

• Email Alias

• Web Alias

• Modifying User Shell

• Add/Remove printers from servers/CWs

• Add/Remove mail lists

• Server Backups

• Change Quotas (in file and mail server)

• Install/Configure new CWs

• Create/Update CAL USB Boot Disk

• Package Management/SVN Configuration

• External Disk Preparation for CW Backups

• RAID1 Configuration

• replace 'bad' (SCSI/SATA) disks

• check all important logs

• Wiki Management

• CAL Server Configurations

• LVM Disk Management