UNIX admin course description
Covers essential administration tasks ranging from installation through to system accounting and
security. Many topics from the 2 day introductory administration course are also revisited in more
detail enabling delegates to solve complex problems that can occur when performing these basic tasks.
Who will benefit?
System administrators, network administrators. Support personnel.
UNIX training course prerequisites
Introduction to UNIX administration.
Knowledge of C and shell programming would be useful though not essential.
UNIX training course objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Install UNIX.
- Manage packages.
- Solve problems that occur with basic tasks.
- Maintain a secure standalone UNIX system.
- Set up quotas and system accounting.
- Describe the organisation and implementation of the filesystem.
Duration: 5 days
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NOTE: The exact contents of this course will depend on the
specific variation of UNIX (e.g. AIX, HP/UX, Linux or Solaris)
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UNIX admin course contents
Installation
Partitions and slices, disk sizing, typical packaging, installing UNIX.
Package management
Installing, spooling, listing and removing packages.
Initial system settings
Timezones, system names.
Customising system startup and shutdown
The boot up process, init and /etc/inittab, run states, /etc/rc2.d. Setting up the system accounting. The
shutdown shell script.
User and group management issues
Password aging, losing roots password.
Printer management issues.
Log files, customising banner pages, priorities...
Handling peripherals
/dev names, mknod, copying diskettes...
Evaluation of UNIX backup methods.
System security
The SUID and sticky bits.
System accounting
last, utmp, wtmp, pacct, prdaily.
Filesystems and quotas
vfs, ufs, s5 and Vxfs implications for the administrator. fsck, mkfs, mount...Implementing quotas.
Miscellaneous
Useful files and utilities, BSD logging.What's going on in your system, disk space, log files
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