About This Guide

Table of Contents

Audience and Purpose
Document Organization
How to Use This Document
Related Documents
Typographical Conventions

This section describes the purpose, organization, and conventions of this document.

Audience and Purpose

This guide describes the concepts and procedures that an AFS(R) system administrator needs to know. It assumes familiarity with UNIX(R) administration, but no previous knowledge of AFS.

This document describes AFS commands in the context of specific tasks. Thus, it does not describe all commands in detail. Refer to the OpenAFS Administration Reference for detailed command descriptions.