System Management

[ Up: Top ]
[ Previous: Users and Groups ][ Next: System Configuration ]

---

This chapter describes facilities for controlling the system that underlies a process (including the operating system and hardware) and for getting information about it. Anyone can generally use the informational facilities, but usually only a properly privileged process can make changes.

Menu

• Host Identification :: Determining the name of the machine.
• Platform Type :: Determining operating system and basic machine type
• Filesystem Handling :: Controlling/querying mounts
• System Parameters :: Getting and setting various system parameters

To get information on parameters of the system that are built into the system, such as the maximum length of a filename, System Configuration.