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Linux Administration Essentials

"Ireland's Centre for Unix Excellence"

Course Content:

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Installation User & Workgroup Administration
Installation options
Preparing for an installation
Installing from CD/DVD media
Questions to be answered
Post-installation procedures
The super-user account
The super-user account
Adding workgroups
Using GIU/TUI tools
Security policies
Login Control Files System Boot And Shutdown
Choice of user shell environment
Shell control files
Shell control files
Shell control files
The inittab file
Run-control scripts
Changing run-level using init
Recommended levels (server/workstation)
Configuring The X-Window (Graphics) System File Systems
Starting the X-window system
Starting the X-window system
XF86config
*Overcoming problems graphic environments
Disk partitioning
Disk partitioning
Mounting and un-mounting
Creating a new file system
Using Logical Volume Management
Using RAID for file system performance
Basic Networking Networked File Systems
Network addressing
Network interface configuration
Assigning host names and IP addresses
Assigning host names and IP addresses
Creating an NFS server
Creating an NFS server
Mounting and un-mounting NFS shares
SAMBA FTP
Sharing networked files to Windows-PCs
Configuring the SAMBA server
Testing the SAMBA server
Configuring an FTP server
testing an FTP server
DNS Apache Web Server
Principles of DNS
Configuring a DNS server
Becoming a client of a DNS server
DNS configuration files and processes
Creating a web server
Starting the Apache daemon processes
Apache configuration files
The Squid Proxy Server NIS and LDAP Names Services
Squid configuration files
Bandwidth monitoring
Proxy client configuration
Explanation of NIS
Explanation of LDAP
Configuring a NIS server
Configuring NIS clients
Configuring an LDAP server
Configuring LDAP clients
Other Networking Issues  

Target Audience:
  • UNIX administrators- Windows NT/2000 administrators (who meet the pre-requisites)
  • UNIX/Linux users wishing to move into an administrative role.
Prerequisites:
  1. Unix Fundamentals Course (any Unix version), or equivalent knowledge
  2. Unix Refresher Course if time has elapsed since attending prior Unix Fundamentals course
Follow-Up Courses:
Option of other related or follow-on courses:
  1. Shell Programming Advanced
  2. Posix Shell Programming
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