Unix System Administration

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

This course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the administration of a SVR4 compatible Unix System. Practical work will concentrate on the basic SVR4 commands rather than vendor-specific administration menu driven or GUI tools.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Clerks Court 18-20 Farringdon Lane Clerkenwell, EC1R 3AU

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Unix

Course programme

The Administrator's Role

  • Role Of A System Administrator
  • Using The root Login
  • Tracking The Use Of su
  • The sysadm Menu System

Account Management

  • Users, user groups and related system files
  • Adding new users and user groups (useradd, groupadd)
  • Changing and deleting users and user groups (usermod, userdel, groupmod, groupdel)
  • Password and login control (passwd)
  • User communication facilites (wall, /etc/motd)
  • Exercise

Login Files

  • The Bourne and Korn Shell Environments
  • Environment Variables
  • The system profile /etc/profile
  • The user's .profile
  • The Korn shell start up file .kshrc
  • Korn shell options
  • Listing environment variables and aliases
  • Skeleton directories
  • Exercise

Background Jobs

  • Starting Background Jobs
  • Using The nice Command
  • Using cron Processes
  • Creating crontab Entries
  • Using The crontab Command
  • The at Command
  • Exercise

File System Administration

  • Physical Disk Organisation
  • UNIX Partition Slices
  • File System Device Names
  • Mounting and Unmounting File Systems
  • File System Types
  • File System Structure
  • File System Creation
  • Checking And Repairing File Systems
  • Monitoring Free Space
  • Exercise

File Access

  • File Access Criteria (Users, Groups and Permissions)
  • Default permissions with umask
  • Changing File Attributes with chmod, chown and chgrp
  • Testing permissions with su
  • Exercise

Backup and Restore Facilities

  • Using The cpio Command
  • Using The tar Command
  • Using the dd Command
  • Backup And Restore Services

Managing Swap Space

  • Listing, configuring and disabling swap space (swap)
  • Exercise

Terminals and Printers

  • Managing terminals
  • Using the stty command
  • Terminal model capabilities and commands (infocmp, tput)
  • The LP print service
  • LP print service files
  • Printer configuration (lpadmin)
  • Printer maintenance - managing printer status, job queues etc.
  • (lphsut, lpsched, /etc/init.d/lp, accept, reject, enable, disable, lpmove, lpusers, lpstat, cancel)
  • Printing from copies of files
  • Stopping banner output
  • Exercise

System Startup and Shutdown

  • The /etc/init Procedure
  • System Run States
  • The /etc/inittab File
  • System Startup Procedures and Processes
  • System Shutdown Procedures and Processes
  • Recovery From Boot Failure
  • Exercise

Basic Networking

  • Basic networking overview
  • Network hardware
  • Network software
  • Network addressing - IPv4
  • Network masks and subnets
  • Routing
  • Network commands (hostname, ifconfig, netstat, telnet, rlogin, ssh, ftp, sftp, rcp, scp, rsh, ping)
  • Client-Server environment
  • Servers
  • Networking services overview NIS, NIS+, DNS, LDAP NFS, DHCP
  • Exercise

Performance Management

  • Performance Management
  • System Performance Tools
  • System Activity Reporting using the sar command
  • General Performance
  • Specific Areas Of Performance
  • Excessive Paging
  • Disk I/O Performance
  • CPU Performance
  • Using the timex Command
  • Exercise

Kernel Configuration

  • System Configuration
  • Configuration Guidelines
  • Reducing Disk I/O
  • Increasing User Memory
  • Improving CPU Performance
  • Special Case Tuning Needs
  • The Configuration Process (/etc/conf/cf.d, idtune, idbuild)

Software Installation

  • Operating System Installation
  • Other Software Installation (pkginfo, pkgadd, pkgrm)
  • Exercise

Syslog

  • Syslog Configuration
  • The /etc/syslog.conf configuration file
  • Editing the syslog.conf file
  • Logging telnet, ftp and other network daemons
  • Testing syslog logging
  • Exercise

General Housekeeping

  • Managing Files and Directories
  • Checking file space used
  • Freeing up disk space
  • Saving disk space
  • File system organisation
  • Helpful hints
  • Exercise

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