Introduction - Red Hat NETWORK - USER REFERENCE GUIDE 2.1 User Reference Manual

Section 0.1:Document Conventions

Introduction

Welcome to the Red Hat Network User Reference Guide 2.1.
The Red Hat Network 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. All version of this manual
are available at http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/. Once you use Red Hat Network to update
these applications, you can use the latest version of this manual.
This version of the manual covers version 2.5.4-1 of the Red Hat Update Agent and version 1.3.2-1 of
the Red Hat Network Registration Client.
For a more detailed, technical overview of Red Hat Network, please refer to the Red Hat Network
Technical Paper available at http://www.redhat.com/products/network/.
Document Conventions
When you read this manual, you'll see that certain words are represented in different fonts, typefaces,
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 in the word or phrase on the command line
and press
[Enter]
displayed in a different style on their own (e.g., 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.
to invoke a command. Sometimes a command contains words that would be
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