{"id":234,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:26:39","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-69","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=234","title":{"rendered":"Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<title>Terminals<\/title>\n<p>\nUnless your Linux machine is an Internet server or <glossary>gateway<\/glossary>\nmachine, there probably will be users on it. Users\nneed to access the system somehow. Either they access the systems across\na <glossary>network<\/glossary> using a remote terminal program like telnet, rlogin, or\naccess file systems using <glossary>NFS<\/glossary>. Also, like users typically do on\nWindows, they might log in directly to the system. With Linux, this (probably) is done from a\nterminal and the system must be told how to behave with the specific terminal that you are using.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIncreasingly people are using graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to do much of\ntheir work. With many distributions a lot of the work is still done using the\ncommand line, which means they need a <glossary>terminal<\/glossary>,\nwhether or not it is displayed within a graphical window.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn live environments that use Linux (such as where I work), you do not have the\naccess to a graphical interface on all systems (for <glossary>security<\/glossary>\nreasons, among other things). Therefore, the only way to remotely administer the system is\nthrough telnet, which typically requires a <glossary>terminal<\/glossary>\nwindow. In cases like this, it is common to move from one <glossary>operating system<\/glossary>\ntype to another (Linux to Sun, or vis-versa). Therefore, knowledge of <glossary>terminal<\/glossary> settings capabilities is often very useful.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen we talk about terminals, we are not just talking about the old fashioned <glossary>CRT<\/glossary> that is\nhooked up to your computer through a <glossary>serial<\/glossary> port. Instead, we are talking about any command-line (or shell) interface to the system. This includes serial terminals, telnet connections and even the command-line window that you can start from your GUI.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terminals Unless your Linux machine is an Internet server or gateway machine, there probably will be users on it. Users need to access the system somehow. Either they access the systems across a network using a remote terminal program like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}