Red Hat NETWORK BASIC - USER REFERENCE GUIDE 4.0, Руководство пользователя

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Introduction
Welcome to the Red Hat Network Basic User Reference Guide 4.0 .
The Red Hat Network Basic User Reference Guide will guide you through registering your system for
Red Hat Network and using its many features. Depending on which version of Red Hat Linux you
have installed, the
Red Hat Network Registration Client
and the
Red Hat Update Agent
might be
different than the ones described in this manual as new features are added. Once you use Red Hat
Network to update these applications, you can use the latest version of this manual.
All
versions of this manual are available in HTML and PDF formats at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/RHNetwork/.
This version of the manual covers version 3.0.7 of the
Red Hat Update Agent and version 2.7.21-
7.x.3 of the
Red Hat Network Registration Client
.
Warning
Systems running Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.3 and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server will need to
use the separate Red Hat Network Registration Client before starting the Red Hat Update Agent .
Refer to Chapter 7 for instructions. Systems running Red Hat Linux 8.0 can go directly to the Red
Hat Update Agent , which has registration functionality built in for the latest release. Refer to Chapter
2 for instructions.
For a technical overview of Red Hat Network, please refer to the whitepapers available at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/wp/.
For an interactive demo of RHN, go to http://rhn.redhat.com/demo/rhn_demo.html. It requires the
Macromedia Flash player.
1. Document Conventions
When you read this manual, you will see that certain words are represented in different fonts, type-
faces, sizes, and weights. This highlighting is systematic; different words are represented in the same
style to indicate their inclusion in a specific category. The types of words that are represented this way
include the following:
command
Linux commands (and other operating system commands, when used) are represented this way.
This style should indicate to you that you can type the word or phrase on the command line
and press [Enter] to invoke a command. Sometimes a command contains words that would be
displayed in a different style on their own (such as filenames). In these cases, they are considered
to be part of the command, so the entire phrase will be displayed as a command. For example:
Use the
cat testfile
command to view the contents of a file, named
testfile
, in the current
working directory.
filename
Filenames, directory names, paths, and RPM package names are represented this way. This style
should indicate that a particular file or directory exists by that name on your Red Hat Linux
system. Examples:
The
.bashrc
file in your home directory contains bash shell definitions and aliases for your own
use.
The
/etc/fstab
file contains information about different system devices and filesystems.