Linux: Administration

Goals

Cover in detail the administration of Linux and the functions of the operating system.

Prerequisite

Basic IT skills.

Contents

Examples of softwares

• Office products (OpenOffice, GNUmeric, abiWord…)

Install Linux

• Prerequisites, supported hardware platforms
• Different installation methods
• Installing 2 Operating Systems on the same machine, virtualization
• Discover the working environment, graphical desktop, terminal, basic commands

Start up and shut down

• Main startup stages
• Configuring the Grub Boot Loader
• Application init, init level
• Application init, init level
• System shut down

Managing the file system

• Folders tree diagram
• Supported file systems, creating and formatting file systems
• Managing partitions, fstab file
• Mount and unmount different types of file systems
• The different types of files, folders, links, pipes
• Managing disk space and quotas

Users and rights

• Managing user accounts and groups
• Multi User systems: philosophy and session startup mechanisms
• Setting file permissions
• Remote connection, SSH

Installing software and peripherals

• RPM and Deb packaging systems, managing dependencies
• Updating the applications
• Installing from the sources
• Automating the processes with Crontab
• The notion of  process, some useful commands
• Managing peripherals, modules, device files

Introduction to Samba

• Installation, anatomy, involved processes and their roles
• Basic configuration of a shared folder and printer
• Securing a shared resource

Troubleshooting

• Start up in Single-user mode
• Booting into Rescue mode
• Backup and restore tools, commands: tar, rsync, incremental backup