Linux System Administration Note: This course was formerly LFS220 (LFS301)
This Linux System Administration course teaches attendees how to install, administer, configure and upgrade a Linux system running one of the three major Linux distribution families (Red Hat, SUSE, Debian/Ubuntu)
Duration: 40-45hrs
Course Content:
- Introduction
- Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation Training
- Logistics
- System Startup and Shutdown
- Understanding the boot sequence
- The Grand Unified Bootloader
- GRUB Configuration File
- Emergency Boot Media
- The init process
- The sysvinit startup
- Upstart
- Using systemd
- Configuration files in /etc/sysconfig
- Shutting down/rebooting the system
- Linux Directory Layout
- Data Distinctions
- FHS Linux Standard Directory Tre
- Kernel Services and Configuration
- Kernel configuration and overview
- Kernel Configuration
- The sysctl command
- Kernel Module Configurations
- Utilities
- The udev device manager
- Partitioning and Formatting Disks
- Common Disk Types
- Disk geometry
- Partitioning
- Naming Disk Devices
- Sizing up the partitions
- Partition table editors
- Linux Filesystems
- Some Notes about filesystems
- Filesystem Types
- The ext4 filesystem
- The btrfs filesystem
- Extended Attributes
- How to make a filesystem
- How to attach a filesystem
- Getting your quota
- Checking and repairing filesystems
- Disk and filesystem usage
- Advanced Filesystem Management
- Software RAID
- RAID Levels
- RAID configuration
- Logical volumes
- Volumes and Volume Groups
- Creating logical volumes
- Resizing logical volumes
- LVM Snapshots
- Understanding Processes
- Process States
- Execution modes
- Daemons
- Creating processes
- How the shell creates a new process
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- Monitoring Processes
- Signals
- Package Formats
- Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
- DPKG
- Package Management Systems
- YUM
- Using apt-get
- zypper
- User and Group Account Management
- User accounts
- Management
- Passwords
- Groups
- Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
- Authentication Process
- Configuring PAM
- LDAP authentication
- File ownership
- Backup and Recovery Methods
- Why Backups?
- The dd command
- The gzip command
- The dump command
- Networking
- Basic Network services
- IP addresses
- Configuring Network interfaces
- Routing
- Name resolution
- Network diagnostics
- Local System Security
- Creating a security policy
- Physical Security
- Selinux overview
- Filesystem Security
- Basic Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting overview
- Things to check: Networking
- Order of the boot process
- Filesystem corruption and recovery
- Linux Rescue