Part I System Configuration

This section contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Yum describes how you can use the yum utility to install and upgrade software packages.
Chapter 2, Ksplice describes how to configure Ksplice Uptrack to update the kernel on a running system.
Chapter 3, Boot and Service Configuration describes the Oracle Linux boot process, how to use the GRUB boot loader, how to change the run level of a system, and how to configure the services that are available at each run level.
Chapter 4, System Configuration Settings describes the files and virtual file systems that you can use to change configuration settings for your system.
Chapter 5, Kernel Modules describes how to load, unload, and modify the behavior of kernel modules.
Chapter 6, Device Management describes how the system uses device files and how the udev device manager dynamically creates or removes device node files.
Chapter 7, Task Management describes how to configure the system to run tasks automatically within a specific period of time, at a specified time and date, or when the system is lightly loaded.
Chapter 8, System Monitoring and Tuning describes how to collect diagnostic information about a system for Oracle Support, and how to monitor and tune the performance of a system.
Chapter 9, System Dump Analysis describes how to configure a system to create a memory image in the event of a system crash, and how to use the crash debugger to analyse the memory image in a crash dump or for a live system.