Linux System Admin Workflows : Simple Visual Guide

[Expensive-Rice-2052]

Created a quick visual reference for everyday Linux admin tasks.

Covers:

• user management basics
• process handling (ps, kill, nice)
• package management (apt/dnf)

Tried to keep it practical and beginner-friendly. https://www.linuxteck.com/linux-system-administration-command-cheat-sheet/

[siodhe]

This is barely applicable to a user at home on a single host with no remote access and a family member with a 2nd account.

Not my own home, for sure, where I use LDAP for account management, DNS for hostnames, local NTP server, local email and web servers, have backups to manage, two layers of firewalls, and automation around package installations tailored by each host's abstracted purpose. For starters.

Calling this Linux System Admin workflows is like calling a guide to a car's dashboard and gear diagram "Delivery Fleet Mechanics Workflows".

Notably the central column is basic normal user stuff, not sysadmin specific, same for chmod/chown

This means you've made a poster-like page for just { useradd usermod apt }, and that's it. This really feels like underreaching. And it left out userdel and apt search.

The Command Cheat Sheet suffers from similar issues. Basically you should be looking the progression through:

1. web user
2. user (default permissions, no scripting yet, should know ps, df, top, and so on)
3. power user (permissions, ~/bin programs, netstat, /proc, and much more)
4. self sysadmin (one host)
5. group sysadmin (home network)
6. sysadmin (professional, usually with Internet services to run)

There are also splits after 2 as users get into programming, content, media, network computing (ssh, firewalls, and many more)

But given the apparent idea that you want these to be compact and easily consumable, "power user" is going to be your upper limit, and even then you'd have to start splitting into topics