How Linux Works

1. Introduction

   Booting

2. Abbreviated Boot
3. The Boot Process
4. Startup and Run Levels
5. Initialization Scripts
6. Runlevel Scripts
7. Login Process
8. Bash Shell
9. Filesystems

   Configuring for Startup

10. LILO, Kernel and Root Filesystem
11. The Kernel

    System

12. Passwords, Users, Groups, and Quotas
13. The Environment
14. The /etc/sysconfig directory
15. The /proc filesystem
16. Process Control
17. Devices
18. Daemons Services
19. Inetd and Network Services
20. Programs and Libraries
21. Security and PAM
22. The printer services
23. Mouse support with gpm

    Networking

24. Mail
25. News
26. UUCP
27. LDAP
28. NFS and RPC
29. Samba, NetBIOS, WINS, nmbd
30. Identd (auth)
31. Telnet and FTP
32. Apache web server
33. DNS and named

    X

34. How X Works
35. X Scripts

    Text

36. Support for Text
37. Keymapping for Programs
38. Keycode Table
39. Example Keymap File
40. Terminfo Commands
41. VT100 ESC sequences

    More

42. Kernel Revisited
43. Configuration Files

    Apendices

44. Credits