Linux System Administration - Course Syllabus

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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.