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-====== Video 5: Administering a VuFind Server ======
+====== Video 5: Administering a VuFind® Server ======
 The fifth VuFind® instructional video shows you some important server administration tasks to keep your VuFind site happy and healthy: making sure that Solr auto-starts on boot-up (using systemd), and configuring cleanup of old search and session data.
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-Welcome to the fifth VuFind® video. This time around, we are going to talk about administering a VuFind server after you've built and configured it, since there are a few common tasks that it's useful to know about. We're going to cover both getting Solr set up in a secure way and making sure that it starts automatically when your server boots up. And we're going to talk about some cleanup you'll want to do to make sure that you don't accidentally fill up your disk without realizing it.
+Welcome to the fifth VuFind video. This time around, we are going to talk about administering a VuFind server after you've built and configured it, since there are a few common tasks that it's useful to know about. We're going to cover both getting Solr set up in a secure way and making sure that it starts automatically when your server boots up. And we're going to talk about some cleanup you'll want to do to make sure that you don't accidentally fill up your disk without realizing it.
 So let's start with Solr setup. For the purposes of this video, I am going to show you how to set up VuFind autostart using systemd. Systemd is a set of tools shared across Linux distributions which are focused on system and service management. This is a comparatively new development in Linux land, which is to say it's been around for several years, but if you've been in Linux a long time, you may be more familiar with the earlier system that used symbolic links to a directory called init.d. Systemd gets rid of obscure bash scripts and replaces them with configuration files, and while it took a little getting used to, I've come to really like it, and so I'm going to go through it in some detail in this video to help you understand how it works and what it's doing for you.