Administering Red Hat Linux 6 - Part 2

Course Contents - DAY 1Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

• How Kickstart works
• Sections within a Kickstart configuration file
• Pre and Post Kickstart processing
• Creating a Kickstart file
• Creating the Linux Install Server
• Differing ways of starting a Kickstart installation
• Exercise

• Introduction to text file editing using vi/vim
• Basic commands
• Copying and moving text
• Search and replace features
• Reading and writing from file
• Regular Expressions
• Exercise

• Searching the contents of text files
• Sorting Files
• Piping and Redirection
• Compressing files using gzip and bzip2
• Backing up files using tar
• Exercise

• Hard and symbolic links
• Other useful commands
• Exercise

• Authentication policies and User Private Groups
• Password management using passwd, chage etc
• Managing user profile files
• Extended file permissions including suid,sgid
• Access Control List (ACL's)
• Switching to another user
• Connecting to a centralized administration server
• Exercise

• Creating partitions
• Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• Creating File Systems
• Extending LVM file systems
• LVM Snapshots
• LUKS encrypted partitions
• Exercise

• Context types
• semanage, getsebool, setsebool and chcon commands
• SELinux log files
• Exercise

• Configuring client access to an Network Filesystem Server (NFS)
• Providing CIFS access
• Configuring autofs
• Configure access from a client to a DNS server
• Exercise

• The YUM management tool
• The software repositories
• Accessing repositories from a client
• Exercise

• Ports and Socket Connections
• The xinetd Daemon Operation
• Controlling xinetd Services and Access
• Controlling Services using chkconfig
• The 'service' command
• Exercise

• Using 'at' to manage one-off jobs
• Using the cron system
• System crontab files
• Monitoring cron access
• Controlling access to the 'cron' and 'at' facilities
• Using anacron
• Exercise

• System Log Files
• rsyslogd configuration
• Analysing and rotating logfiles
• Exercise

• Loading and removing modules
• Using kernel arguments
• Exercise

• Understanding the boot process
• The Rescue Environment
• Using the anaconda rescue environment
• Overriding Boot Levels from grub
• Booting into Single User Mode
• Booting from USB devices
• Common boot problems and their resolution
• Exercise