Chapter Summary

   

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The System Administration Manager or SAM is a comprehensive and useful tool to carry out routine system administration tasks . This chapter started with an introduction to SAM and the advantages of using it. You learned that SAM can be used in both text and graphical modes. If you are using a text-type terminal, SAM automatically detects it and starts in text mode. On X-Window terminals, it starts in GUI mode. Then you found out how to start and stop it in both of these modes and what the important areas of the SAM window are. You also learned how to use menus . In the text mode, a menu can be invoked by pressing the key, and menus can be navigated using the and arrow keys. In GUI, you used the mouse to perform actions.

You used SAM to create a new user in GUI. SAM records all of its commands in a log file, /var/sam/samlog . From SAM, you can click Options and then click View SAM Log to get information from this log file.

The restricted SAM builder is invoked by using the -r option and is used to grant restricted root access to some system users. This helps in distributing system administration tasks among many users in a complex computing environment.

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