Meeting the needs of your users, ensuring that the system is at full operational capability, and keeping up to date with any new security and feature patches: these are the tasks of daily server administration. Fortunately, tools to help automate and simplify these processes exist in abundance. The Linux system itself is chock-full of useful tools to make the administration of your server a reasonably painless task. In this chapter, we'll look at Webmina third-party tool designed to ease the burden of keeping your server in a fully operational stateand yum, a command line tool designed to help you keep your system up to date. |