The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.
Formatting convention |
Type of Information |
Example |
Special Bold |
Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list. |
Go to the QoS tab. |
|
Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections. |
Read the Basic Administration chapter. |
Italics |
Used to emphasize the importance of a point, to introduce a term or to designate a command line placeholder, which is to be replaced with a real name or value. |
The system supports the so called wildcard character search. |
|
The names of commands, files and directories, and the commands you type. |
The license file is located in the |
Preformatted |
On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages. |
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CAPITALS |
Names of keys on the keyboard. |
SHIFT, CTRL, ALT |
KEY+KEY |
Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another. |
CTRL+P, ALT+F4 |
Be aware of the following conventions used in this book.
The root path usually includes the /bin
, /sbin,
/usr/bin
and /usr/sbin
directories, so the steps in this book show the commands in these directories without absolute path names. Steps that use commands in other, less common, directories show the absolute paths in the examples.