User`s guide

Preface 9
Typographical Conventions
The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.
Formatting
convention
Type of Information Example
Special Bold
Items you must select, such as menu
options, command buttons, or items in
a list.
Go to the
QoS tab.
Titles of chapters, sections, and
subsections.
Read the Basic Administration chapter.
Italics Used to emphasize the importance of a
point or to introduce a term.
Such servers are called Hardware Nodes.
Monospace
The names of commands, files, and
directories.
Use
vzctl start to start a VPS.
Monospace
Italics
Used to designate a command line or a
file name placeholder, which is to be
replaced with a real value.
Type
vzctl destroy vpsid.
Preformatted
On-screen computer output in your
command-line sessions; source code in
XML, C++, or other programming
languages.
Saved parameters for VPS 101
Monospace
Bold
What you type, contrasted with on-
screen computer output.
# rpm –q vzctl
CAPITALS Names of keys on the keyboard. SHIFT, CTRL, ALT
KEY+KEY Key combinations for which the user
must press and hold down one key and
then press another.
CTRL+P, ALT+F4
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
Command line examples throughout this guide presume that you are using the Bourne-again
shell (bash). Whenever a command can be run as a regular user, we will display it with a dollar
sign prompt. When a command is meant to be run as root, we will display it with a hash mark
prompt:
Bourne-again shell prompt
$
Bourne-again shell root prompt
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