Annvix:User Guide

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Annvix User Guide

The Annvix User Guide is the official documentation, or handbook, for the project. The Documentation contains developer-related information and user-supplied tutorials and HOWTOs.

1. Introduction to Annvix
   1. Annvix Features
   2. What you can and can't do with Annvix "as-is"
   3. System Requirements
   4. Availability
2. Installing Annvix
   1. Quick Install Reference
   2. Installation Guide
   3. Upgrading Strategies
3. Using Annvix
   1. Understanding Basic Unix/Linux System Concepts
      1. Disks and Partitions
      2. Linux Filesystems
      3. Filesystem Organization
      4. System startup and shutdown
      • the other "basics" topics as noted (but incomplete) on the existing documentation page
   2. Package management
      1. Installing packages
      2. Creating packages via ports
   3. Configuring and recompiling the Linux kernel
   4. System Configuration with Environment Files and Directories
   5. Configuring Networking
   6. Managing Supervised Services
      • srv, runit, etc.
   7. Configuring and Using AppArmor
   8. Using the tcb Shadow Alternative for Authentication
4. Annvix Services
   1. Internal services
      1. crond
      2. mdadm
      3. openntpd
      4. shorewall and iptables
      5. socklog - The System Logger
      6. smartd - monitor hard drive SMART information
      7. uschedule - per-user alternate scheduling daemon
   2. External services
      1. ipsvd - The Super Server
      2. apache
      3. exim
      4. mysql
      5. postfix
      6. squid
      7. svn
      8. ...
         • the idea here is to have basic configuration write-ups of all the out-of-the-box services (note where the config files are, how to add them, what basic configs need to be done to get the service up and running, where logs are located, etc.)

These pages are to be the official "manual" for Annvix and the Documentation topic will cover more in-depth HOWTO's, topics that don't necessarily fall in somewhere here, and developer-oriented documentation.