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IT Vendor Courses   Linux Red Hat Training Courses

Red Hat Linux Fundamentals

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Course Duration: 5 Days

Course Code: RHLINUXF

Course Description:

THIS COURSE HAS BEEN RETIRED, PLEASE GO TO USING RED HAT LINUX.

 

This course is aimed at becoming proficient in Linux with the emphasis on Red Hat's offerings. Linux and consists of three sections: Fundamentals, System Administration and basic Networking. The course material is designed around the Red Hat Fedora Core 2 release of Linux.

 

Prerequisites:

No prior knowledge of Linux/UNIX is required, although experience of working within a Linux/UNIX environment would be helpful. A basic familiarity with computers and keyboard knowledge is required.

Follow on courses:

Using Red Hat Linux

This course includes the following modules:

Introduction

• History, features and concepts
• Red Hat versions, Enterprise Linux, Fedora
• Kernel versions (2.2, 2.4, 2.6)

Workstation Usage

• The Red Hat Bluecurve Desktop
• Running applications
• The terminal window, shells, command line format
• Help Screens and Manual pages

File handling

• Filenames and Pathnames, wildcards, the file system tree
• Links to files
• Directories; Manipulating, listing
• File manipulation ( cp, mv, rm etc.)
• Access permissions ( chmod , chown)
• Extended file attributes (lsattr, chattr)
• Viewing files ( more, cat, etc.)

Editors

• Simple use of vi
• Window based editors

Linux Utilities

• Finding files with locate and find commands
• Pattern extractors (grep, cut, diff)

I/O Redirection

• Principles, importance
• Pipes & Filters

Process Management

• Concepts
• Creating background processes, Job Control
• Process Status (ps, top )
• Killing Processes, Signals
• Process priorities (nice, renice)
• The /proc file system

System Management Introduction

• Overview, Responsibilities
• The Super User Account
• Housekeeping tasks
• The cron system
• System Messages
• Files in /var/log (dmesg, tail, logrotate)

User management

• The password and group files
• Changing passwords (passwd, chage, usermod)
• Adding users with Red Hat desktop utility
• User manipulation commands (useradd, userdel)
• Environment variables
• User authentication with PAM

Startup and shutdown

• Overview
• Startup and shutdown procedures
• Automatic starting of services (chkconfig, service)
• Kernel modules
• Overview (Insmod, modprobe, /etc/conf.modules)
• Forcing single user mode from the boot prompt

Disks and File Systems

• Types of file systems, mounting
• Checking (df, mount, fsck)
• Backing up (tar, cpio, zip)
• USB memory sticks

Package Management

• Red Hat Package Manager (rpm)
• Loading updates (up2date, yum)
• Compiling applications from source distributions
• Adding (and deleting) packages to the system in both source and binary distributions

Client side networking

• Basic Networking
• Overview, files involved (/etc/hosts, resolv.conf, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts)
• Network maintenance with the Red hat utilities
• Test programs (ping, traceroute, netstat, nslookup, ifconfig)
• Inetd/xinetd
• Overview and setup
• Old network access
• Telnet and ftp, reasons for insecurity
• The Secure shell
• Overview, ssh and scp. Port Forwarding

Printer Setup

• Overview, CUPS and LPRng
• Adding local and remote printers
• Command line usage
• Web based admin

 

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