Introduction; Document Conventions - Red Hat NETWORK 3.1 - MANAGEMENT Reference Manual

Welcome to the Red Hat Network 3.1 Management Reference Guide.
The Red Hat Network Management 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
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 2.8.27-34
of the Red Hat Network Registration Client.
Warning
Systems running Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 will need to use the
separate Red Hat Network Registration Client before starting the Red Hat Update Agent. Refer
to Chapter 6 Red Hat Network Registration Client for instructions. Systems running Red Hat Linux
8.0 or newer can go directly to the Red Hat Update Agent, which has registration functionality built
in. Refer to Chapter 2 Red Hat Update Agent for instructions.
For an overview of Red Hat Network offerings, please review the descriptions available at
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/ .

1. Document Conventions

When you read this manual, 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 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 file names). In these cases, they are considered
to be part of the command, so the entire phrase is displayed as a command. For example:
Use the
cat testfile
working directory.
file name
File names, 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 system. Examples:
The file in your home directory contains bash shell definitions and aliases for your own
.bashrc
use.
The
/etc/fstab
Install the
webalizer
this manual are
command to view the contents of a file, named
file contains information about different system devices and file systems.
RPM if you want to use a Web server log file analysis program.
available in HTML

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and PDF formats
, in the current
testfile
at