UNIX / LINUX Administration Course – Part One

Is it right for me?

A good knowledge of basic Unix commands is required for this course on UNIX administration. This includes file manipulation, permissions, redirection band pipes, vi, and basic process control. Attendance on the Unix Fundamentals course would give the delegate all the required knowledge.

This course is taught using Solaris and will be of benefit to anyone using a UNIX operating system.

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Install the UNIX operating system
• Explain the file system
• Maintain the operating system and applications
• Manage user accounts
• Secure the UNIX system
• Configure devices
• Manage the UNIX file system
• Explain process control
• Manage print services
• Configure the boot process through scripts
• Use back up and recovery processes for the UNIX operating system

What does it cover?

Installation

• Hardware
• Configuration clusters
• Which software
• Media
• Pre-install
• Post-install

Directory hierarchy

• Inodes
• Hard links
• Symbolic links
• Directory layout
• Filesystem layout
• Important directories

Packages

• Package information
• Removing a package
• Adding a package
• Checking packages
• Spooling packages
• Contents file

Patches

• Patch structure
• Current patches
• Patch formats
• Patch bundles
• Installing a patch
• Removing a patch
• Where to get patches from
• Graphical utilities

User administration

• Attributes of a user account
• The files
• Configuring groups
• Configuring user accounts

User initialisation files

• What are they for?
• Skeleton copies

System security

• Password, group and shadow files
• Monitoring
• Changing your identity
• Default files
• Ownerships
• Special permissions
• Access control lists
• Remote access

Device configuration

• Disk Structure
• Device Naming
• Device files

Disk slicing

• Partition information
• Modifying the layout
• Other ways to change a label

Filesystems

• Disk based filesystems
• UFS structures

Mounting Filesystems

• Command line
• Mounting at boot time
• Busy filesystems
• CDROMs
• Floppy disks
• Volume management daemon

Maintaining Filesystems

• fsck
• Lost+found
• Backup superblocks
• Disk usage
• Mini-root booting

Scheduled process control

• Cron
• At
• Queue defaults

Print service

• Terms and requirements
• Define a printer
• Configure access
• Command line and GUI
• Print client
• Queues and requests
• Delete a printer
• Remote printing

OpenBoot firmware

• PROM, NVRAM and EEPROM
• Versions
• Power on self test (POST)
• Booting
• Adding devices
• Boot options

The boot process

• Boot loaders
• Kernel configuration
• Run levels
• Init and run control scripts
• Shutting down

Backup and recovery

• Strategies
• Devices
• Controlling tapes
• Whole filesystem backup
• Remote backup
• Checking backups
• Restoring backups
• Root filesystems
• Interactive restorations
• Snapshot backup