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# System

In this screen you can choose between several system and administration tools. Click on a link below to learn more.

1. Manage system services

   1. the section called “Authentication”

   2. the section called “Manage system services by enabling or disabling them”

   3. the section called “Manage, add and remove fonts. Import Windows(TM) fonts”

2. Localization

   1. the section called “Manage date and time”

   2. the section called “Manage localization for your system”

3. Administration tools

   1. the section called “View and search system logs”

   2. the section called “Open a console as administrator”

   3. the section called “Users and Groups” = Manage users on system

   4. the section called “Import Windows(TM) documents and settings”

### Authentication

## drakauth

This tool[26] enables you to modify the manner in which you can be recognized as user of the machine or on the net.

By default, information for your authentication is stored in a file on your computer. Modify it only if your network administrator invites you to do so and give information about that.

### Manage system services by enabling or disabling them

## drakxservices

This page hasn't been written yet for lack of resources. If you think you can write this help, please contact the Doc team. Thanking you in advance.

You can start this tool from the command line, by typing drakxservices as root.

### Manage, add and remove fonts. Import Windows(TM) fonts

## drakfont

This tool[27] is present in the Mageia Control Center under the System tab. It allows you to manage the fonts available on the computer. The main screen above shows:

- the installed font names, styles and sizes.

- a preview of the selected font.

- some buttons explained here later.

Get Windows Fonts:

This button automatically adds the fonts found on the Windows partition. You must have Microsoft Windows installed.

Options:

It allows you to specify the applications or devices (printers mostly) able to use the fonts.

Uninstall:

This button is to remove installed fonts and possibly save some place. Be careful when removing fonts because it may have serious consequences on the documents that use them.

Import:

Allows you to add fonts from a third party (CD, internet, ...). The supported formats are ttf, pfa, pfb, pcf, pfm and gsf. Click on the Import button and then on Add, a file manager pops up where you can select the fonts to install, click on Install when done. They are installed in the folder /usr/share/fonts.

If the newly installed (or removed) fonts doesn't appear in the Drakfont main screen, close and re open it to see the modifications.

### Manage date and time

## drakclock

This tool[28] is found under the tab System in the Mageia Control Center labelled "Manage date and time". In some desktop environments it is also available by a right click / Adjust date and Time ... on the clock in the system tray.

It's a very simple tool.

On the upper left part, is the calendar. On the screenshot above, the date is September (on the upper left), 2012 (on the upper right), the 2nd (in blue) and it is a Sunday. Select the month (or year) by clicking on the little arrows on each side of September (or 2012). Select the day by clicking on its number.

On the bottom left is the Network Time Protocol synchronising, it is possible to have a clock always on time by synchronising it with a server. Check Enable Network Time Protocol and choose the closest server.

On the right part is the clock. It's useless to set the clock if NTP is enabled. Three boxes display hours, minutes and seconds (15, 28 and 22 on the screenshot). Use the little arrows to set the clock to the correct time. The format can't be changed here, see your desktop environment settings for that.

At least, on the bottom right, select your time zone by clicking on the Change Time Zone button and choosing in the list the nearest town.

### Note

Even if it isn't possible to choose a date or time format in this tool, they will be displayed on your desktop in accordance with the localisation settings.

### Manage localization for your system

## localedrake

This tool[29] can be found in the System section of the Mageia Control Center (MCC) labelled "Manage localization for your system". It opens with a window in which you can choose your language. The choice is adapted to languages selected during installation.

The Advanced button give access to activate compatibility with old encoding (non UTF8).

The second window shows a list of countries according to the selected language. The button Other Countries gives access to countries not listed.

You have to restart your session after any modifications.

#### Input method

In the Other Countries screen you can also select an input method (from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the list). Input methods allow users to input multilingual characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc).

For Asian and African locales, IBus will be set as default input method so users should not need to configure it manually.

Other input methods (SCIM, GCIN, HIME, etc.) also provide similar functions and can, if not available from the drop-down menu, be installed in another part of the Mageia Control Center. See the section called “Software Management (Install and Remove Software)”.

### View and search system logs

## logdrake

This tool[30] is found in the Mageia Control Center System tab, labelled "View and search system logs".

#### To do a search in the logs

First, enter the key string you want to look for in the Matching field and/or the key string you want to do not wish to see amongst the answers in the field but not matching. Then select the file(s) to search in the Choose file field. Optionally, it is possible to limit the search to only one day. Select it in the Calendar, using the little arrows on each side of the month and year, and check "Show only for the selected day". At last, click on the search button to see the results in the window called Content of the file. It is possible to save the results in the .txt format by clicking on the Save button.

### Note

The Mageia Tools Logs houses the logs from the Mageia configuration tools such as the Mageia Control Center tools. These logs are updated each time a configuration is modified.

#### To configure a mail alert

Mail alert automatically checks the system load and the services every hour and if necessary sends an e-mail to the configured address.

To configure this tool, click on the Mail Alert button and then, in the next screen, on the Configure the mail alert system drop down button. Here, all the running services are displayed and you can choose which ones you want to look watch. (See screenshot above).

The following services can be watched :

- Webmin Service

- Postfix Mail Server

- FTP Server

- Apache World Wide Web Server

- SSH Server

- Samba Server

- Xinetd Service

- BIND Domain Name Resolve

In the next screen, select the Load value you consider unacceptable. The load represents the demand to a process, a high load slows the system down and a very high load may indicate that a process has gone out of control. The default value is 3. We recommend setting the load value to 3 times the number of processors.

In the last screen, enter the Email address of the person to be warned and the Email server to use (local or on the Internet).

### Open a console as administrator

## drakconsole

This tool[31] gives you access to a console which is directly opened as root. We do not think that you need more information about that.

### Users and Groups

## userdrake

This tool[32] is found under the System tab in the Mageia Control Center labelled "Manage users on system"

The tool allows an administrator to manage the users and the groups, this means to add or delete a user or group and to modify user and group settings (ID, shell, ...)

When userdrake is opened, all the users existing on the system are listed in the Users tab, and all the groups in the Groups tab. Both tabs operate the same way.

1 Add User

This button opens a new window with all fields shown empty:

The field Full Name is intended for the entry of a family name and first name, but it is possible to write anything or nothing as well!

Login is the only required field.

Setting a Password is highly recommended. There is a little shield on the right, if it is red, the password is weak, too short or is too similar to the login name. You should use figures, lower and upper case characters, punctuation marks, etc. The shield will turn orange and then green as the password strength improves.

Confirm Password field is there to ensure you entered what you intended to.

Login Shell is a drop down list that allows you to change the shell used by the user you are adding, the options are Bash, Dash and Sh.

Create a private group for the user, if checked will automatically create a group with the same name and the new user as the only member (this may be edited).

The other options should be obvious. The new user is created immediately after you click on OK.

2 Add Group

You only need to enter the new group name, and if required, the specific group ID.

3 Edit (a selected user)

User Data: Allows you to modify all the data given for the user at creation (the ID can't be changed).

Account Info:

The first option is for setting an expiration date for the account. Connection is impossible after this date. This is useful for temporary accounts.

The second option is to lock the account, connection is impossible as long as the account is locked.

It is also possible to change the icon.

Password Info: Allows you to set an expiration date for the password, this forces the user to change his password periodically.

Group: Here you can select the groups that the user is a member of.

### Note

If you are modifying a connected user account, modifications will not be effective until his/her next login.

4 Edit (with a group selected)

Group Data: Allows you to modify the group name.

Group Users: Here you can select the users who are members of the group

5 Delete

Select a user or a group and click on Delete to remove it. For a user, a window appears to ask if home directory and mailbox must also be deleted. If a private group has been created for the user, it will be deleted as well.

### Warning

It is possible to delete a group which is not empty.

6 Refresh

The User database can be changed outside of Userdrake. Click on this icon to refresh the display.

7 Guest Account

guest is a special account. It is intended to give somebody temporary access to the system with total security. Login is xguest, there is no password, and it is impossible to make modifications to the system from this account. The personal directories are deleted at the end of the session. This account is enabled by default, to disable it, click in the menu on Actions -> Uninstall guest account.

### Import Windows(TM) documents and settings

## transfugdrake

This tool[33] is found under the System tab in the Mageia Control Center labeled Import Windows(TM) documents and settings

The tool allows an administrator to import the user documents and settings from a Windows® 2000, Windows® XP or Windows® Vista™ installation on the same computer as the Mageia installation.

### Warning

Please note that all the changes will be applied by transfugdrake immediately after pressing Next.

After starting transfugdrake you will see the first wizard page with some explanation about the tool and import options.

As soon as you read and understand the instructions, press the Next button. This should run a detection of Windows® installation.

When the detection step is complete you will see a page which allows you to choose accounts in Windows® and Mageia for the import procedure. It is possible to choose other user account than yours own.

### Note

Please take into account that due to migrate-assistant (the backend of transfugdrake) limitations Windows® user account names with special symbols can be displayed incorrectly.

### Note

Migration may take some time depending on the size of the document folders.

### Warning

Some Windows® applications (especially drivers) may create user accounts for different purposes. For example, NVidia drivers in Windows®are updated using UpdatusUser. Please do not use such accounts for the import purposes.

When you finished with the accounts selection press Next button. The next page is used to select a method to import documents:

Transfugdrake is designed to import Windows® data from My Documents, My Music and My Pictures folders. It is possible to skip import by selecting the appropriate item in this window.

When you finished with the document import method choosing press Next button. The next page is used to select a method to import bookmarks:

Transfugdrake can import Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox bookmarks into the bookmarks of Mageia Mozilla Firefox instance.

Choose the preferred import option and press the Next button.

The next page allows you to import desktop background:

Choose the preferred option and press the Next button.

The last page of wizard shows some congratulation message. Just press the Finish button.

### Snapshots

## draksnapshot-config

This tool[34] is available in MCC's System tab, in the Administration tools section.

When you start this tool in MCC for the first time, you will see a message about installing draksnapshot. Click on Install to proceed. Draksnapshot and some other packages it needs will be installed.

Click again on Snapshots, you will see the Settings screen. Tick Enable Backups and, if you want to backup the whole system, Backup the whole system.

If you only want to backup part of your directories, then choose Advanced. You will see a little pop-up screen. Use the Add and Remove buttons next to the Backup list to include or exclude directories and files from the backup. Use the same buttons next to the Exclude list to remove subdirectories and/or files from the chosen directories, that should not be included in the backup. Click on Close when you are done.

Now give the path to Where to backup, or choose the Browse button to select the correct path. Any mounted USB-key or external HD can be found in /run/media/your_user_name/.

Click on Apply to make the snapshot.

[26] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing drakauth as root.

[27] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing drakfont as root.

[28] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing drakclock as root.

[29] You can also start this tool from the command line, by typing localedrake as root.

[30] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing logdrake as root.

[31] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing drakconsole as root.

[32] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing userdrake as root.

[33] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing transfugdrake as root.

[34] You can start this tool from the command line, by typing draksnapshot-config as root.

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- About the Manual for the Mageia Control Center
- Software Management
  - Software Management (Install and Remove Software)
    - Introduction to rpmdrake
    - The main parts of the screen
    - The status column
    - The dependencies
  - Software Packages Update
  - Configure updates frequency
  - Configure Media
    - The columns
    - The buttons on the right
    - The menu
- Sharing
  - Configure FTP
    - What is FTP?
    - Setting up an FTP server with drakwizard proftpd
  - Configure webserver
    - What is a web server?
    - Setting up a web server with drakwizard apache2
- Network Services
  - Configure DHCP
    - What is DHCP?
    - Setting up a DHCP server with drakwizard dhcp
    - What is done
  - Configure DNS
  - Configure proxy
    - What is a proxy server?
    - Setting up a proxy server with drakwizard squid
    - What is done
  - Configure time
    - Setup a NTP server with drakwizard ntp
    - What is done
  - OpenSSH daemon configuration
    - What is SSH?
    - Setting up an SSH daemon with drakwizard sshd
- Hardware
  - Hardware configuration
    - The window
    - The menu
  - Sound Configuration
  - 3D Desktop Effects
    - Introduction
    - Getting Started
    - Troubleshooting
      - Can't See Desktop after Logging in
  - Set up the graphical server
  - Set up the Keyboard Layout
    - Introduction
    - Keyboard Layout
    - Keyboard Type
  - Set up the pointer device (mouse, touchpad)
  - Install and configure a printer
    - Introduction
    - Automatically detected printer
    - No automatically detected printer
    - Complete the installation process
    - Network printer
    - Network printing protocols
    - Device Properties
    - Troubleshoot
    - Specifics
  - Set up scanner
    - Installation
    - Scannersharing
    - Specifics
    - Extra installation steps
  - Set up a UPS for power monitoring
- Network and Internet
  - Network Center
    - Introduction
    - The Monitor button
    - The Configure button
    - The Advanced Settings button
  - Set up a new network interface (LAN, ISDN, ADSL, ...)
    - Introduction
    - A new Wired connection (Ethernet)
    - A new Satellite connection (DVB)
    - A new Cable modem connection
    - A new DSL connection
    - A new ISDN connection
    - A new Wireless connection (WiFi)
    - A new GPRS/Edge/3G connection
    - A new Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking connection
    - A new Analog telephone modem connection (POTS)
    - Ending the configuration
  - Remove a connection
  - Proxy
  - Share the Internet connection with other local machines
    - Principles
    - Gateway wizard
    - Configure the client
    - Stop connection sharing
  - Manage different network profiles
    - Introduction
      - Profiles
      - Draknetprofile
    - Running Draknetprofile
      - Defining profiles, profile switching
      - Using a system that has more than one profile
    - Appendix: Files relevant to Draknetprofile
  - Configure VPN Connection to secure network access
    - Introduction
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- System
  - Authentication
  - Manage system services by enabling or disabling them
  - Manage, add and remove fonts. Import Windows(TM) fonts
  - Manage date and time
  - Manage localization for your system
    - Input method
  - View and search system logs
    - To do a search in the logs
    - To configure a mail alert
  - Open a console as administrator
  - Users and Groups
  - Import Windows(TM) documents and settings
  - Snapshots
- Network Sharing
  - Access Windows (SMB) shared drives and directories
    - Introduction
    - Procedure
  - Share directories and drives with Samba
    - Introduction
    - Preparation
    - Wizard - Standalone server
    - Wizard - Primary domain controller
    - Declare a directory to share
    - Menu entries
    - Printers share
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    - Introduction
    - Procedure
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    - Prerequisites
    - Main window
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      - NFS Directory
      - Host access
      - User ID Mapping
      - Advanced options
    - Menu entries
      - File|Write conf
      - NFS Server|Restart
      - NFS Server|Reload
  - Access WebDAV shared drives and directories
    - Introduction
    - Creating a new entry
- Local disks
  - Manage disk partitions
  - CD/DVD burner
    - Mount point
    - Options
      - user/nouser
  - Share your hard disk partitions
- Security
  - MSEC: System Security and Audit
    - Presentation
    - Overview tab
    - Security settings tab
      - Basic security tab
      - System security tab
      - Network security
      - Periodic checks tab
      - Exceptions tab
      - Permissions
  - Set up your personal firewall
  - Configure authentication for Mageia tools
  - Advanced setup for network interfaces and firewall
  - Parental Controls
    - Presentation
    - Configuring Parental controls
      - Blacklist/Whitelist tab
      - Block Programs Tab
- Boot
  - Set up autologin to automatically log in
  - Set up boot system
  - Set up display manager
- Other Mageia Tools
  - Mageia Bug Report Tool
  - Collect Logs and System Information for Bug Reports
  - Display Available NFS And SMB Shares
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