Conventions and Abbreviations

The following symbols and text conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Comment
	An important note or instruction.
	A warning about possible errors or important notes that require special attention.
Anti-virus network	A new term or an emphasis on a term in descriptions.
<IP-address>	Placeholders.
Save	Names of buttons, windows, menu items and other program interface elements.
ctrl	Names of keyboard keys.
/home/user	Names of files and folders, code examples.
Appendix A	Cross-references to document chapters or internal hyperlinks to webpages.

Commands entered in the command line using a keyboard (in a terminal or a terminal emulator) are marked with the command prompt character $ or # in the manual. The character indicates the privileges required for running the specified command. According to the standard convention for UNIX-based systems,

$ indicates that the command can run with user rights;

# indicates that the command must run with superuser (usually root) privileges. To elevate the privileges, use su and sudo commands.

The list of abbreviations is provided in the Appendix F. List of Abbreviations section.