Conventions and Abbreviations

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The following conventions and symbols are used in this manual:

Convention

Description

An important note.

Warning about possible errors and situations that should be taken into account.

Anti-virus network

A term in the position of a definition or a link to a definition.

<file name>

Fields whose placeholder names can be replaced with actual values.

Cancel, sudo

Names of GUI elements and of internal and external programs.

ctrl

Names of keys on the keyboard.

/home/user

Names of files and directories, code snippets and code examples, input to the command line and application output.

Command-line commands, which are entered via a keyboard (in the terminal or terminal emulator), are marked with the command prompt character $ or # in the current manual. The character indicates the privileges required for execution of the specified command. According to the standard convention for UNIX-based systems

$—indicates that the command can be executed with user rights.

#—indicates that the command can be executed with superuser (usually root) privileges. To elevate the privileges, use su and sudo commands.

Cross references to topics and hyperlinks to external resources.