Linux for System Services Administrators
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: GNU/Linux introduction
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Chapter 3: Red Hat OS Installation
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Chapter 4: Basics
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Class files
These files are needed for the labs in the first half of the class. To unpack:
- Copy the classfiles.tar.gz file to your computer.
- Type:
tar xzf classfiles.tar.gz
Chapter 5: Finding the answer
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Chapter 6: File manipulation
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Chapter 7: File and directory permissions
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Chapter 8: The vi editor
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Chapter 9: The shell
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Chapter 10: Searching
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Chapter 11: Some useful tools
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Chapter 12: Processes
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Chapter 13: Basic bash programming, part I
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Chapter 14: Basic bash programming, part II
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Chapter 15: Basic bash programming, part III
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Chapter 16: User Information
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Chapter 17: RPM Packages
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Various GPG package signing keys
Repository file for use with yum for a local class
server
Chapter 18: Partitions and filesystems
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Chapter 19: Filesystem tools
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Chapter 20: Useful sysadmin tools
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| Program | Package | Red Hat ES/AS 3.0 CD | Fedora Core 4 CD |
| lsof | lsof | 2 | 1 |
| fuser | psmisc | 2 | 1 |
| rsync | rsync | 2 | 1 |
| socklist | procinfo | Not there | 4 |
/proc documentation from the 2.4.22 kernel sources
sysctl doumentation
Chapter 21: Booting
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Chapter 22: Network Configuration
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Chapter 23: Network services
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Chapter 24: Backups
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Chapter 25: Disk Quotas
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Chapter 26: Logical Volume Management
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Chapter 27: Software RAID
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Chapter 28: Network monitoring, testing, and tuning
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nmap and wireshark (ethereal) are on the
distribution media.
ttcp-3.7-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
netcat-0.7.1-1.i386.rpm
bonnie-1.4-0.i386.rpm
bonnie++-1.03-1.a.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Chapter 29: Performance monitoring
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iostat and sar are in the sysstat package on the
distribution media.
eater (right click and "save link as")
gkrellm rpm
Chapter 30: Filesystems
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SkillBridge Training
Examples from the class notes (or,
all as one file).
Selected Solutions from the class notes (no
looking until you have solved the problems!). Note that all solutions
are in an appendix of your course book.
All solutions in a compressed tar file.
Evaluation form (if needed)