UXSYS04

DATES:

1. Getting started
   • Examine the featureset and versions of Linux.
2. User and Group Administration
   • Perform user administration.
   • Add new users and groups from the command-line and programmatically using scripts.
   • Turn on the quota system to limit user disk usage.
   • Modify the user's environment to set each individual user session and have a modified PATH.
3. Administering Logins and Permissions
   • Create scripts to work with users.
   • Search all files for a specified user and modify its ownership.
   • Execute write and wall commands for contacting users.
   • Create a special file - pipe and determine its attributes.
   • Contact a user at login time.
4. UNIX File System
   • Understand the file system and its structure.
   • Determine the file systems that are automatically mounted.
   • Change the attributes and options for a specified file system.
5. Physical Disks
   • Recognize the partition system within UNIX.
   • Create a new partition and format a new file system.
   • Run the fsck utility to repair a file system.
6. Disk Administration
   • Determine disk usage for each disk partition.
   • Use df and du for determining file usage and problem areas.
   • Create a logical volume using LVM.
7. Operational States
   • Review the rc directories.
   • Create customized scripts at boot time.
   • Boot the system into single user and multi-user modes; list the system daemons that are running.
   • Modify kernel parameters, reboot the system, and ascertain the changes that have been made.
8. Virtual Memory
   • Identify memory usage and abnormal memory utilization issues.
   • Use the vmstat utility to identify a problem area of memory.
9. Network File Systems
   • Use the NFS server for several clients.
   • Setup a NFS server and clients.
   • Start and stop NFS.
10. Process Management and Scheduling
    • Become knowledgeable with the UNIX process management and environment.
    • Determine the processing which is using the most resources.
    • Determine the resources that are being used.
11. Backup and Recovery
    • Execute a full backup of the system.
    • Run an incremental backup of the system.
    • Restore the system to a specific point.
    • Backup all user home directories.
12. Printing
    • Install a printer on a system.
    • Schedule print jobs and diagnose print problems.
13. Network Applications
    • Utilize the FTP server as an administrator.
    • Start up the FTP server and determine which users can use the server and which are denied.
    • Setup the view of the individual users.

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