Admintool help

Admintool is the console administration tool for Mastodon Linux. Many (though not, unfortunately, all) of the common Linux administrative tasks can be accessed through admintool.

To navigate around an admintool form, use the TAB key. To accept input, press the [enter] key. + and - move the cursor up and down a menu, and the [space] key toggles a checkbox. If you have a mouse, you can select items by clicking on them, and you can scroll fields by clicking on any scroll buttons they contain; (+) and (-) for vertical scrolling, left and right arrowheads for horizontal scrolling.

There are 4 main administrative areas in admintool's main menu.

The System menu lets you set the machine name, the services that Mastodon runs, the date, and the time.

The Network menu lets you set tcp/ip settings for any of the ethernet (and token-ring?) devices on the system, configure DNS, and configure NIS (Yellow Pages.)

The Display menu lets you set the mouse device on the system (and, if you're running an X-windows aware system, reconfigure the console graphics.)

The Tasks menu lets you perform routine administrative tasks. The only one currently configured is user administration, though group and lpr configuration is in the pipeline.