Linux Administration Workshop – LNX999
This three-day Linux administration class lets you hit the ground running with basic Linux administration tasks such as managing users, files, and processes. You will also learn disk management and archiving files, job scheduling, and system startup and shutdown concepts.
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Linux Administration Workshop – LNX999 – 3 Days Request a Class Date
This course provides gives Linux users basic Linux Administration skills.
Mutli-Enrollment Discounts Available at Check-Out
Location Instructor-Led Online
Course ID: LNX999 Duration: 3 days
Audience: Linux users who understand basic Linux commands and want to learn Linux Administration
Linux Administration Workshop
Overview of System Administration
- A Brief History of UNIX and Linux
- Linux Distributions
- Online Docs – The man Pages
- Online Docs – The info Pages
User Administration
- What is a “user” in Linux?
- The /etc/passwd File
- Passwords
- The /etc/shadow File
- Groups
- The /etc/group File
- Adding Users
- Deleting Users
- Modifying User Attributes
- The Login Process
- /etc/profile and .profile
- The su Command
File Systems and Files
- Files and Inodes
- Files
- Directories
- Symbolic Links
- Named Pipes and Sockets
- Device Files
- Character and Block Devices
- A File System Tour
- The find Command
Advanced File System Concepts
- File System Concepts
- Traditional UNIX File Systems
- UNIX File System Advances
- The Virtual File System
- ext2 File System Design
- The Superblock
- Extended File Attributes
- Recovery and Journaling
- Third-Generation File Systems
Disk Management
- Partitions and File Systems
- Making a File System
- The fdisk Command
- The mkfs Command
- The mount Command
- The fstab File
- The fsck Command
- The df Command
- The du Command
Archiving Files
- Backup Strategies
- Archiving Tools
- The tar Command
- The cpio Command
- The dump Command
- The zip Utility
- The dd Utility
- Compressing Files
- Backup Strategies
Linux Processes
- Overview of Processes
- Process Space
- The fork/exec Mechanism
- Process Table
- The ps Command
- The /proc File System
- Background Processes
- The kill Command
Job Scheduling
- Scheduling Jobs
- The crond and atd Daemons
- The at Command
- The crontab Command
- Format of cron Files
- System crontab Files
System Startup and Shutdown
- Overview of the Bootup Sequence
- LILO
- GRUB
- Kernel Startup
- The init Daemon
- /etc/inittab
- The init Command
- The rc Scripts
- The chkconfig Command
- Single-User Mode
- The shutdown Command
- Communicating with Users:The Wall Command
