Exercise 40: Young and Forest

Network status can be checked in YaST by choosing Network Services on the left and Network Services on the right. This will show the currently configured services, as shown in Figure 4.38.

Figure 4.38. Currently configured network services.

It is also possible to click on the N in the KDE kicker, choose System, Monitor, Info Center, and then Network Interfaces to see information on the cards, as shown in Figure 4.39.

Figure 4.39. The Info Center shows information on the NICs.

Clicking on Protocols in the left frame, you can choose different protocols (including networking ones) to check on the status of each.

The KDE System Guard (System, Monitor, KDE System Guard), shown in Figure 4.40, can show the process table (allowing you to kill entries) as well as the system load.

Figure 4.40. The KDE System Guard shows load.

Last, any desktop editor, or command-line editor, can be used to examine configuration files and make changes. Figure 4.41, for example, shows the /etc/profile file opened in the default KDE editor, Kate.

Figure 4.41. Editing a system configuration file.