Course Syllabus
Linux System Administration

A short module covering basic administration of a Linux system. This course is designed to cover stand-alone Linux systems only. The administration of networked systems is covered in another course. The course regularly updated to the latest general release of Red Hat Linux though the concepts are applicable to other flavours as well.

The section on managing printers can use either the more traditional LPRng interface or the newer Common Unix Printing System (CUPS).

 

* System Administration	- Overview, Responsibilities
	- The Super User Account
	- System Administration Tools
	- System Logs
* Managing Users	- The password and group files
	- The passwd command
* Processes	- Overview, listing with ps, killing with kill
* Startup and Shutdown	- System Startup, Run Levels
	- The inittab and rc files, checking tools
	- System Shutdown
* Clocks	- Dates, Times and Time zones
	- The cron clock daemon
* Printers (CUPS or LPRng)	- Overview
	- Adding and managing printers
	- Local and Remote Printers
* Disks and File Systems	- Partitioning, mounting
	- Lnix File Systems, structure
	- Checking with fsck, df, quot
	- Backing up with tar, cpio
	- Package Management

 

Notes

1. All participants receive comprehensive lecture notes.
2. Basic Unix/Linux experience (such as our Using Unix Course) is a pre-requisite.
3. The course includes practical ‘hands-on’ work.
4. Ideally, each student should have a PC Linux System to work on.
5. The length of the course is normally 2 days.