Welcome to:

Linux System Administration I:

Implementation

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Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
• Install Linux from a network install server
• Manage system startup and shutdown
• Select and use system administration tools when appropriate
• Use packaging tools to create, install, and de-install packages
• Configure and manage the X Window System
• Manage character devices, PCMCIA, and USB
• Manage hard disks, partitions, RAID, and LVM
• Create and manage filesystems
• Recompile the Linux kernel
• Perform memory management
• Use scheduling tools
• Create and restore backups
• Perform user administration
• Apply user-level security
• Manage logging
• Configure and manage printers
• Troubleshoot Linux problems

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Course Agenda (1 of 3)
• Day 1
– Introductions
– Unit 1- Advanced Linux Installation
– Exercise 1- Advanced Linux Installation
– Unit 2- Startup and Shutdown
– Exercise 2- Startup and Shutdown
– Unit 3- System Administration Tools
– Exercise 3- System Administration Tools
• Day 2
– Unit 4- Packaging Tools
– Exercise 4- Packaging Tools
– Unit 5- X Window System
– Exercise 5- X Window System
– Unit 6- Kernel Compilation and Configuration
– Exercise 6- Kernel Compilation and Configuration
– Unit 7- Character Devices, PCMCIA and USB

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Course Agenda (2 of 3)
• Day 3
– Unit 8- Block Devices, RAID and LVM
– Exercise 8- Block Devices, RAID and LVM
– Unit 9- Filesystems
– Exercise 9- Filesystems
– Unit 10 - Memory Management
– Exercise 10 - Memory Management
• Day 4
– Unit 11 - Scheduling
– Exercise 11 - Scheduling
– Unit 12 - Backup and Restore
– Exercise 12 - Backup and Restore
– Unit 13 - User Administration
– Exercise 13 - User Administration
– Unit 14 - User-Level Security
– Exercise 14 - User-Level Security

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Course Agenda (3 of 3)
• Day 5
– Unit 15 - Logging
– Exercise 15 - Logging
– Unit 16 - Printers
– Exercise 16 - Printers
– Unit 17 - Troubleshooting
– Exercise 17 - Troubleshooting
– Wrap-up, optional exercises

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Class Logistics
• Schedule
– Breaks and lunch
– Start and stop times
• Logistics
– Building access
– Messages
– Facilities
– Smoking policy
– Parking
– Emergency exits

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Introductions
• Name
• Company
• Job duties
• Linux or UNIX experience
• Computer systems at work
• System usage/application
• Expectations

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Distribution Naming Conventions
This course deals with multiple distributions of the
Linux operating system. The following acronyms
will be used throughout the course.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Entry Server

– RHEL – Applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in general
– RHEL ES – Applies to all Entry Server versions
– RHEL 4U3 – Applies to version 4 update 3 specific issues
• Fedora Core
– Fedora – Applies Fedora Linux in general
– FC – Applies to Fedora Core Linux in general
– FC5 – Applies to Fedora Core v5 specific issues
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
– SLES – Applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in general
– SLES 10 – Applies to V10 specific issues

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Student Guide Font Conventions
• The following text highlighting conventions are used
throughout this book:
– Bold Identifies file names, file paths, directories, user
names and principals.
– Italics Identifies links to web sites, publication titles, and
is used where the word or phrase is meant to stand
out from the surrounding text.
– Monospace Identifies attributes, variables, file listings, GUI
menus, code examples of text similar
to what you might see displayed, examples of
portions of program code similar to what you might
write as a programmer, and messages from the
system.
– Monospace bold Identifies commands, daemons, menu paths, and what
the user would enter in examples of commands and
GUI menus.
– text Text that is italicized identifies
information the user must supply. The text may be
normal highlighting, bold or monospace, or
monospace bold depending on the context.

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