SFL-UNIX201 - Unix to Linux for professionals

UNIX201 - Unix to Linux for professionals

This intensive course is aimed at Unix system administrators who wish to move to Linux and discover the difference between Unix and Linux without wasting time.

It provides the Unix administrator with all the necessary elements to manage Linux platform, both servers or workstations.

It covers all the indispensable elements for Linux system configuration and administration, hardware and software.

Syllabus

  • Fundamental Concepts
    1. Founding Concepts
    2. Alan Turing's machine
    3. Linux' different versions.
    4. The world of Open Source, GPL license.
  • Linux Installation
    1. Linux and software Installation.
    2. Partitioning, boot loader.
    3. RPM package management
    4. DEB package management
    5. tar.gz packages, sources.
    6. file system hierarchy
    7. Linux Standard Base
    8. Management and update tools Yast/Yum/Apt-get
    9. Remote Installation: QuickStart(RedHat)/AutoYast(Suse).
  •  System startup/shutdown
    1. System startup and shutdown
    2. System startup
    3. Startup with GRUB and LILO, Initrd
    4. INIT process
    5. Runlevels
    6. /etc/inittab
    7. System shutdown
  •  Jobs Spoolers
    1. At and Cron. The main differences.
    2. System Audit
    3. Documentation
  •  Linux shell
    1. Differences between BASH and Bourne Shell.
  •  Peripheral management and system resources
    1. Physical peripheral management
    2. PCI, USB
    3. Terminals.
    4. Modems.
    5. Printers.
    6. Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS).
    7. Line Printer Daemon.
    8. System resources management
    9. Processes.
    10. Memory and exchange file (swap)
  •  Blocks devices, hard drives and partitions
    1. Hard drives and partitions, fdisk.
    2. File systems
    3. mkfs, fsck.
    4. mount/umount
    5. /etc/fstab
    6. RAID disk management
    7. LVM management.
  •  Users Security Structure, access rights and ACL
    1. User management, groups and passwords
    2. /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
    3. /etc/group and /etc/gshadow
    4. useradd, userdel, groupadd, groupdel.
    5. passwd and gpasswd.
    6. finger, chfn, chsh, chage et usermod.
    7. Access rights
    8. Sticky bit, SUID and GUID.
    9. chmod and umask
    10. chown and chgrp
    11. Linux attributes
    12. POSIX ACLs
    13. ACL commands
  •  The Kernel and its Modules
    1. The Linux Kernel.
    2. modprobe.
    3. insmod, rmmod and modinfo.
    4. depmod.
    5. Kernel Installation.
    6. /proc virtual directory
  •  Network Services
    1. Introduction to Networks.
    2. Ethernet interfaces
    3. TCP/IP configuration.
    4. Sockets
    5. Secure Shell
    6. Xinetd
    7. Netfilter
    8. Samba.
    9. Apache.
    10. LDAP.

Audience

Unix administrators.

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of Unix systems.

Class training

  • Duration : 5 day(s)
  • Price : 2495 $CAD
  • Register : Calendar