Chapter 3. Managing the System

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Knowing and managing background services
• Troubleshooting background services
• Tracking system resources with journald
• Configuring journald to make it persistent
• Managing users and their groups
• Scheduling tasks with cron
• Synchronizing files and doing more with rsync
• Maintaining backups and taking snapshots
• Monitoring important server infrastructure
• Taking control with Git and Subversion