Unix Administration I - UNX105
Duration: 5 days
Audience: UNIX users and/or administrators interested in gaining a comprehensive understanding of the administrative aspects of the UNIX operating system.
Prerequisites: Completion of Introduction to UNIX or equivalent experience.
Topics:
Administration
- Brief History of UNIX
- Three Parts of the OS
- Default Shells
- Add-On Shells
- Terms
- Man Pages and Other Documentation
- Additional Resources
Hardware Requirements for Solaris
- Installation Methods
- Bringing the System Down
- Starting the Installation
- Step-by-Step Installation Options
- Additional Resources
Post Installation
- Configuring the Host Table
- Post Install Files
- Displaying Disk Usage by Directory
- Displaying Disk Usage by Filesystem
- Displaying Disk Usage by User
- Introduction to the Solaris Management Console
- Additional Resources
The Open Boot PROM
- What is the Open Boot PROM?
- Displaying Basic System Information
- Getting Help
- Displaying SCSI or IDE Devices
- Displaying Device Alias Names
- Creating Custom Device Alias Names
- Displaying PROM Variables
- Setting PROM Variables
- Resetting PROM Variables to Factory Preset
- Booting from PROM
- Recovering from a stop-a
- Additional Resources
Software Administration
- Displaying Package Information
- Removing Packages
- Adding Packages via Scripts or the Command Line
- Spooling Packages
- Installing from Spooled Package
- Removing a Spooled Package
- The pkgchk Command
- Review of the /var/sadm Files
- Using admintool to Administer Packages
- Additional Resources
Patches
- What are Patches?
- Where to Get Patches
- Patch Reports
- Patch Documentation
- Preparing Patches
- Installing Patches
- The /var/sadm/patch Directory
- Displaying Installed Patches
- Removing Patches
- Additional Resources
User Accounts
- The /etc/passwd File
- The /etc/shadow File
- The /etc/group File
- Using Admintool to Administer Group and User Accounts
- Using smuser and smgroup to Administer Group and User Accounts
- Using Solaris Management Console to Administer Group and User Accounts
- Adding Group Accounts via the Command Line
- Deleting Group Accounts via the Command Line
- Adding User Accounts via the Command Line
- Deleting User Accounts via the Command Line
- Additional Resources
System Security
- Password Security
- Recording Failed Login Attempts
- Shifting to Another Account
- User Information
- Changing the User Ownership of a File
- Changing the Group Ownership of a File
- Who is Logged in Now?
- Who has Logged in the Past?
- Controlling Logging In
- Controlling su Attempts
- Preventing stop-a
- Preventing FTP Access
- Additional Resources
Administering Initialization Files
- What are Initialization Files?
- A Review of Common Customizations
- Bourne Shell Initialization Files
- Korn Shell Initialization Files
- C Shell Initialization Files
- Testing Initialization Files
- Additional Resources
Permissions
- Basic UNIX Permissions
- Setting Default Permissions
- Special Permission: setuid
- Special Permission: setgid
- Special Permission: sticky bit
- Additional Resources
Boot Process
- Run Levels
- Overview of the Boot Phases
- The init Phase
- Modifying a Run Level
- Changing to Different Run Levels
- Displaying Boot Messages
- Additional Resources
Directory Hierarchy
- Physical Device Names
- Logical Device Names
- The /etc/path_to_inst File
- Displaying Devices
- Virtual Filesystems vs. Physical Filesystems
- Why Have Partitions?
- The format Utility
- Partitioning with SMC
- Filesystem Types
- The UNIX Filesystem
- Creating a New Filesystem
- Adding New Devices
- Additional Resources
Local Disk Management
- What is Mounting?
- The mount Command
- Mount Rules
- The umount Command
- umount Rules
- Mounting Automatically at Boot
- The mountall Command
- The umountall Command
- Review: The df Command
- Mountain PCFS and HSFS
- Mounting from the CD-ROM
- Additional Resources
Configuring Filesystems
- Why Filesystems Break
- Fixing Filesystems with fsck
- Additional Resources
Administering Process
- Listing and Stopping Processes
- CDE Process Manager (Solaris 8 and Higher Only)
- The prstat Command (Solaris 8 and Higher Only)
- The Solaris Management Console (Solaris 9 and Higher Only)
- The ps and kill Commands
The pgrep and pkill Commands (Solaris 8 and Higher Only)
- The xkill Command
- Controlling Job Priority
- Using crontab
- Using the at Command
- Additional Resources
Backup and Recovery
- Why Perform Backups?
- Full and Incremental Backups
- Logical Tape Device Names
- The ufsdump Command
- Backing up the / and /usr Filesystems
- The ufsrestore Command
- The restoresymtable File
- Restoring the / Filesystem
- The mt Command
- The tar Command
- Compressing Large Files: compress
- Compressing Large Files: gzip
- Compressing Large Files: zip
- Encoding Binary Files
- Emailing Files
- UFS Snapshots
- Additional Resources
Networking
- Setting up Remote Access Authentication
- Remote Login
- Remote Shell
- Remote Copy
- rlogin vs. telnet
- Restricting telnet
- Review: /etc/default/login
- rcp vs. FTP
- Restricting FTP
- Disabling rlogin, rsh and rcp
- Displaying Remote Users
- Checking the Status of Machines
- Additional Resources
Printing
- Using admintool to Set Up Network Printers
- Printing Files
- Monitoring the Print Queue
- Canceling Print Jobs
- Specifying a Default Printer
- Printer Classes
- Checking Printer Status
- Managing the Print Queue
- Printing with Different Priorities
- Rejecting Print Jobs
- Moving Print Jobs
- Recovering from Common Printer Problems
- Removing a Printer
- Additional Resources