Chapter 11: Booting and Initialization

In this chapter, you will

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  Understand default shell variables set in .profile
  



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  Learn to modify system-wide templates for .profile in /etc/skel/profile.local
  



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  Review commonly used commands for use in .profile
  



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  Cover basic shell scripting



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  Add packages to the system

This chapter covers the customization of the initialization and booting process, including writing shell scripts and startup files.