UNIX Fundamentals for IBM Mainframe Users

Objectives
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• describe the open system standards and how they relate to UNIX
• set up a UNIX user to be able to login
• login to UNIX and issue shell commands
• describe and utilise the UNIX file system
• describe and utilise a working subset of Shell commands
• describe the activities of the UNIX administrator
• describe and utilise the networking and interactive capabilities of UNIX.

Who Should Attend
IT personnel expected to support UNIX environments.

Prerequisites
A general understanding of IT systems and some experience in supporting computer systems.

Duration
2 days

Course Code
3128

Contents

Open systems standards
POSIX, The Open Group''''''''''''''''s XPG and DCE Services; open systems standards.


Computer platforms and UNIX
Commercial UNIX systems; ''''''''''''''''Hobby'''''''''''''''' UNIX systems.


Introduction to UNIX
Brief history of UNIX, the three ''''''''''''''''bases'''''''''''''''' SVR4, BSD and OSF/1; UNIX internals overview, processes and programs; UNIX shells; the UNIX file system; UNIX security, Setting up user accounts.


The Kernel and the Shell
Bourne, Korn, C, Starting the Shell, Main Shell functions, Command Line interpretation, Basic command syntax, Input and output redirection, UNIX Multitasking (foreground, background), Shell variables, Shell programming.


The UNIX file system
Files, directories and permissions; listing, locating, copying and moving files; controlling I/O and using Pipes; browsing & searching text - pg, grep; sorting, formatting and printing text files.


UNIX Networking
Why networks?, Point-to-point networking, UUCP, Many-to-many networking, Internetworking Protocol (IP), IP addressing, IP Datagram and IP routing, IP and UDP, connectionless, TCP, connection-oriented, TCP/IP applications, Network ports in TCP/IP and Sockets, Network Addresses and Names, Domain Name Services (DNS), Using the network (rlogin, rsh, rcp, etc.), Telnet, Using FTP.