Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

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Typographic ConventionsviiThe first sentence highlights the particular key cap to press. The second highlights two sets of threekey caps, each set pressed simultaneously.If source code is discussed, class names, methods, functions, variable names and returned valuesmentioned within a paragraph will be presented as above, in Mono-spaced Bold. For example:File-related classes include filesystem for file systems, file for files, and dir fordirectories. Each class has its own associated set of permissions.Proportional BoldThis denotes words or phrases encountered on a system, including application names; dialoguebox text; labelled buttons; check-box and radio button labels; menu titles and sub-menu titles. Forexample:Choose System > Preferences > Mouse from the main menu bar to launch MousePreferences. In the Buttons tab, click the Left-handed mouse check box and clickClose to switch the primary mouse button from the left to the right (making the mousesuitable for use in the left hand).To insert a special character into a gedit file, choose Applications > Accessories> Character Map from the main menu bar. Next, choose Search > Find… from theCharacter Map menu bar, type the name of the character in the Search field and clickNext. The character you sought will be highlighted in the Character Table. Double-click this highlighted character to place it in the Text to copy field and then click theCopy button. Now switch back to your document and choose Edit > Paste from thegedit menu bar.The above text includes application names; system-wide menu names and items; application-specificmenu names; and buttons and text found within a GUI interface, all presented in Proportional Bold andall distinguishable by context.Note the > shorthand used to indicate traversal through a menu and its sub-menus. This is to avoidthe difficult-to-follow 'Select Mouse from the Preferences sub-menu in the System menu of the mainmenu bar' approach.Mono-spaced Bold Italic or Proportional Bold ItalicWhether Mono-spaced Bold or Proportional Bold, the addition of Italics indicates replaceable orvariable text. Italics denotes text you do not input literally or displayed text that changes depending oncircumstance. For example:To connect to a remote machine using ssh, type ssh username@domain.name ata shell prompt. If the remote machine is example.com and your username on thatmachine is john, type ssh john@example.com.The mount -o remount file-system command remounts the named filesystem. For example, to remount the /home file system, the command is mount -oremount /home.To see the version of a currently installed package, use the rpm -q packagecommand. It will return a result as follows: package-version-release.Note the words in bold italics above — username, domain.name, file-system, package, version andrelease. Each word is a placeholder, either for text you enter when issuing a command or for textdisplayed by the system.