Introduction; Document Conventions - Red Hat NETWORK WORKGROUP - USER REFERENCE GUIDE 1.0 User Reference Manual

Introduction

Welcome to the Red Hat Network Workgroup User Reference Guide 1.0.
The Red Hat Network Workgroup 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 2.7.0 of the Red Hat Update Agent and version
1.5.0 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/docs/wp/.

1. Document Conventions

When you read this manual, you will see that certain words are represented in different
fonts, typefaces, sizes, and weights. This highlighting is systematic; different words are rep-
resented 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] 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
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 file in your home directory contains bash shell definitions and aliases for
.bashrc
your own use.
The
/etc/fstab
tems.
Install the
webalizer
application
This style should indicate to you that the program named is an end-user application (as
opposed to system software). For example:
Use Netscape Navigator to browse the Web.
command to view the contents of a file, named
file contains information about different system devices and filesys-
RPM if you want to use a Web server log file analysis program.
, in the
testfile
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