Linux System Administering Part II

Introduction to VIM

• Overview of editing text files using vi/vim
• Key Linux commands
• Copy and move text
• Use search and replace
• Read and write from file

Search text and use regular expressions

• Search for text in vim
• Regular expressions
• Use of ‘sed’ and grep

Manage priorities of processes

• Use of renice and nice command
• Background and foreground processing
• Grouping commands

Installing Red Hat Linux Using KICKSTART

• Understand how kickstart works
• Sections in kickstart configuration file
• Create kickstart file
• Various ways of starting kickstart installation

System access controls

• Access control lists (ACL) introduction
• User private groups and authentication policies
• Managing password using password, change, etc
• Manage files of user profiles
• File permissions including SETUID,SETGID
• Switch to another user
• Connect to centralised administering server

Adding partitions, disks, LVM volumes and filesystems

• Create partitions, volume groups and logical volumes
• Create file systems

LVM’s Management of

• Extend volumes and LVM file systems
• Create and manage Swap space

Configure basic firewall

• Use firewall to limit network access
• Key configuration using GUI interface firewall config

Configure and Manage SELINUX

• Management of SELINUX
• Customization and configuration of SELinux
• Context types and commands
• SELinux log files

Accessing remote systems

• Configure client access to Network filesystem server (NFS)
• Configuring autofs
• Configure access from client to DNS server

 Deploying an ftp and web server

• Apache and Tux Web Servers
• Apache server configuration files and directives
• HTTP and SELinux
• FTP Service using vsftpd

Kernel Maintenance

• Loading and removing modules
• Updating the Kernel package

Troubleshooting

• Understanding the boot process
• Rescue Environment
• Booting into Single-User Mode
• Recovery from lost root password