Introduction to the Red Hat SELinux Guide

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button on a GUI screen or window

This style indicates that the text can be found on a clickable button on a GUI screen. For example:

Click on the Back button to return to the webpage you last viewed.

computer output

Text in this style indicates text displayed to a shell prompt such as error messages and responses

to commands. For example:

The

ls

command displays the contents of a directory. For example:

Desktop

about.html

logs

paulwesterberg.png

Mail

backupfiles

mail

reports

The output returned in response to the command (in this case, the contents of the directory) is

shown in this style.

prompt

A prompt, which is a computer's way of signifying that it is ready for you to input something, is

shown in this style. Examples:

$

#

[stephen@maturin stephen]$

leopard login:

user input

Text that the user has to type, either on the command line, or into a text box on a GUI screen, is

displayed in this style. In the following example, text is displayed in this style:

To boot your system into the text based installation program, you must type in the text com 

mand at the

boot:

prompt.

replaceable

Text used for examples, which is meant to be replaced with data provided by the user, is displayed

in this style. In the following example,

version number

is displayed in this style:

The directory for the kernel source is

/usr/src/kernels/ version number /

, where

version number is the version and type of kernel installed on this system.

Additionally, we use several different strategies to draw your attention to certain pieces of information.

In order of how critical the information is to your system, these items are marked as a note, tip,

important, caution, or warning. For example:

Note

Remember that Linux is case sensitive. In other words, a rose is not a ROSE is not a rOsE.

Tip

The directory /usr/share/doc/ contains additional documentation for packages installed on your

system.