A System Administrator Guide

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Users 3 Networking 3.1 Network Services 4 X 5 Managing Software 6 System Services and Startup 7 Scheduling Tasks

Introduction

MeeGo is oriented towards single user client devices and whilst it is capable of much more, this guide will focus on tasks in that scope.

Users

Networking

Networking is managed by connman

Typically it uses dhclient although scripts are in :

/usr/lib/connman/scripts/

Network Services

X

MeeGo uses a modified X server that runs as a user. It is currently based around Xorg 1.6

Managing Software

Software is provided as rpm packages and uses:

• rpm
• yum
• zypper (much faster than yum)

to handle them.

Repos are specified in /etc/yum.repos.d/ eg

meego.repo:

[MeegoTrunk]
name=MeeGo Trunk
baseurl=http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/trunk/repo/ia32/os/

meego-extras.repo:

[MeegoExtras]
name=MeeGo Extras
baseurl=http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/extra/repo/ia32/os/

If you install zypper then

rmdir /etc/zypp/repos.d
ln -s /etc/yum.repos.d /etc/zypp/repos.d

System Services and Startup

Scheduling Tasks