Chapter 6. Server Administration

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.