1 <partintro xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="admin_intro">
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2 <para>This part of the documentation is intended for Evergreen administrators and requires root access to your <application>Evergreen</application> server(s) and administrator access to
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3 the <application>Evergreen</application>
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4 staff client. It deals with maintaining servers, installation, upgrading, and configuring both system wide and local library settings.
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5 Some sections require understanding of <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> system administration while others require an understanding of your system hierarchy of locations
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6 and users. Many procedures explained in the following
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7 chapters are accomplished with <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> commands<indexterm><primary>Linux</primary><secondary>commands</secondary></indexterm> run from the
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8 terminal without a Graphical User Interface (GUI).</para>
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9 <para>In order to accomplish some of the tasks, prerequisite knowledge or experience will be required and you may need to consult system administration documentation for your
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10 specific <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distribution if you have limited <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> system experience. A vast ammount of free
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11 resources can be found on the on the web for various experinece levels. You might also consider consulting <link xl:href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/">
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12 <application>PostgreSQL</application></link><indexterm><primary>databases</primary><secondary>PostgreSQL</secondary></indexterm> and
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13 <link xl:href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/"><application>Apache</application></link><indexterm><primary>Apache</primary></indexterm> documentation for a greater understanding
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14 of the software stack on which <application>Evergreen</application> is built.</para>
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