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Course Summary

For persons who have no command-line experience in Linux or UNIX and want to develop skills for using and customizing their own Linux workstations.

Course updated for building skills on the following distributions :

Mandriva 2005

Mandriva 2006

Mandrake 10.1

Mandrake 10.2

White Box Enterprise Linux 3

White Box Enterprise Linux 4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Fedora Core 2

Red Hat 9.0

Mandrake Move

Knoppix

Suse Live

ATRC Linux Essentials Description

Goal:

A power user who can effectively use, customize and script an Enterprise Linux system for common command line processes as well as use basic network utilities. A student who successfully masters the material in ATRC is ready to begin learning system administration ATRC and RH133.

Audience:

IT professionals who want to build user-level skills before learning Linux System and Network Administration.

Prerequisites:

User-level experience with any computer system, including: use of mouse, use of menus and use of any graphical user interface.

Course Duration : 36 Hours.

15:00 - 17:00 Monday to Friday 

18 Classes of two hours each. 3.5 Weeks.

Course Fees : Rs 9600 per participant.

Prepares for:

ATRC Linux System Administration RH 133 +

This course teaches the basics of a Linux environment and prepares for the future role as a system administrator. The course focuses on the use of the command line interface and its basic commands that a crucial for a administrator or system engineer.


Goal:

A Linux user who can be productive in using and customizing a Linux system for common command line processes and desktop productivity roles.


Audience:

Users who are new to Linux and have no prior UNIX or command-line skills, who want to develop and practice the basic skills to use and control their own Linux system.

Prerequisites

User-level experience with any computer system, use of mouse, use of menus, use of any graphical user interface.


Course Objective


    Understand the Linux file system

    Perform common file maintenance tasks

    Use and customize the GNOME interface

    Issue essential Linux commands from the command line

    Perform common tasks using the GNOME GUI

    Open, edit, and save text documents using the vi editor

    File access permissions

    Launch applications from command line and GNOME interface

    Printing commands and utilities

    Customize X Window System

    Regular expression pattern matching and I/O redirection

    Copy files to and from a floppy diskette

    Install, upgrade, delete, and query packages on your system

    Network utilities for the user

    Power user utilities

    Miscellaneous topics


Course Content


The following is an outline of the skills and knowledge represented in the training elements of the ATRC Linux Essentials Course.


Linux Essentials Outline.


Section 1: A Tour of Enterprise Linux



UNIT 1: Overview

    Objectives

    Agenda

    UNIX History

    UNIX Principles

    GNU Project / FSF

    GPL - GNU General Public License

    Linux Origins

    Why Linux?

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux

    White Box Enterprise Linux

    Recommended Hardware Specifications

    Local Logins

    Virtual Consoles

    The Xorg GUI Framework

    Xorg Graphical Environments

    Starting Xorg

    Changing Your Password


UNIT 2: Running Commands and Getting Help

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Running Commands

    Some Simple Commands

    Getting Help

    The whatis Command

    The --help Option

    Reading Usage Summaries

    The man Command

    Navigating man Pages

    The info Command

    Navigating info Pages

    Extended Documentation

    Red Hat Documentation

    Linux Documentation

    Hands-on Lab: Getting Help with Commands

UNIT 3: Browsing the File system

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Linux File Hierarchy Concepts

    Some Important Directories

    Other Important Directories

    Current Working Directory

    File and Directory Names

    Absolute Pathnames

    Relative Pathnames

    Changing Directories

    Listing Directory Contents

    Copying Files and Directories

    Copying Files and Directories: The Destination

    Moving and Renaming Files and Directories

    Moving and Renaming Files and Directories: The Destination

    Creating and Removing Files

    Creating and Removing Directories

    Using Nautilus

    Moving and Copying in Nautilus

    Determining File Content

    Viewing an Entire Text File

    Viewing Text Page by Page

    Hands-on Lab: Browsing the File system



UNIT 4: The bash Shell

    Objectives

    Agenda

    bash Introduction

    bash Heritage and Features

    Command Line Shortcuts: File Globing

    Command Line Shortcuts: The Tab Key

    Command Line Shortcuts: history

    Command Line Expansion: Tilde

    Command Line Expansion: Variable and String

    Command Line Expansion: Command and Math

    Protecting from Expansion: Backslash

    Protecting from Expansion: Quotes

    History Tricks

    Command Editing Tricks

    Command Editing Tricks: Editing Modes

    gnome-terminal

    Hands-on Lab: Exploring the bash Shell


UNIT 5: Standard I/O and Pipes

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Standard Input and Output

    Redirecting Input and Output

    Redirecting Output

    Redirecting Standard Output

    Overwriting or Appending

    Redirecting Standard Error

    Redirecting Both Standard Output and Error

    Redirecting Input

    Using Pipes to Connect Processes

    Useful Pipe Targets

    tee

    Hands-on Lab: Standard I/O and Pipes



UNIT 6: Users, Groups, and Permissions

    Objectives

    Agenda

    The Linux Security Model

    Users

    Groups

    The root User

    Linux File Security

    Permission Types

    Examining Permissions

    Interpreting Permissions

    Examining Directories

    Linux Process Security

    Changing Permissions- Symbolic Method

    Changing Permissions- Numeric Method

    Changing Permissions- Nautilus

    Hands-on Lab: File Permissions



UNIT 7: vi, vim, joe, and gedit Editor Basics and Printing

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Overview of vi and vim

    Starting vi and vim

    Three Modes of vi and vim

    Cursor Movement

    Entering Insert Mode

    Leaving Insert Mode: <Esc>

    Change, Delete, and Yank

    Put (paste)

    Undoing Changes

    Searching for Text

    Command-Mode Tricks

    Saving and Exiting: ex mode

    Printing in Linux

    Printing Commands

    Printing Utilities

    Hands-on Lab: vi and vim Editor Basics



UNIT 8: The Linux File system In-Depth

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Partitions and File systems

    Inodes

    Directories

    Inodes and Directories

    cp and Inodes

    mv and Inodes

    rm and Inodes

    Symbolic (or Soft) Links

    Hard Links

    The Seven Fundamental File types

    Checking Free Space

    Removable Media

    Mounting CDs and DVDs

    Mounting USB Media

    Mounting Floppy Disks

    Formatting Floppy Disks

    Why Archive Files?

    Creating an Archive

    Inspecting Archives

    Extracting an Archive

    Why Use File Compression?

    Compression Utilities

    Using Compression

    Compressing Archives

    tar to Unformatted Floppies

    Hands-on Lab: The Linux File system



UNIT 9: Configuring the bash Shell

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Configuring the bash Shell

    Variables

    Configuring the Shell: Local Variables

    Common Local Variables

    The PS1 Local Variable

    Aliases

    Other Shell Configuration Methods

    Configuring Commands: Environment Variables

    Common Environment Variables

    The TERM Environment Variable

    The PATH Environment Variable

    How the Shell Expands the Command Line

    Shell Startup Scripts

    Login Shells

    Startup Scripts: Order of Execution

    /etc/profile

    /etc/profile.d

    ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc

    ~/.bash_logout

    Hands-on Lab: Configuring the bash Shell



UNIT 10: Advanced Topics in Users, Groups, and Permissions

    Objectives

    Agenda

    User and Group ID Numbers

    /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group Files

    System Users and Groups

    Changing Your Identity

    User Information Commands

    Default Permissions

    Special Permissions

    Special Permissions for Executables

    Special Permissions for Directories

    Hands-on Lab: Switching Users and Setting a umask


UNIT 11: Advanced Uses of the vi and vim Editors

    Objectives

    Agenda

    File Repositioning

    Screen Repositioning

    Filtering

    ex mode: Search and Replace

    Visual Mode

    Advanced Reading and Saving

    Configuring vi and vim

    Expanding your Vocabulary

    A Peek at the Appendix

    Hands-on Lab: Advanced Uses of the vi and vim Editors



UNIT 12: Introduction to String Processing

    Objectives

    Agenda

    head

    tail

    tail - continued

    wc

    sort

    uniq

    cut

    Other String Processing Tools

    Version Comparison with diff

    Spell Checking with aspell

    Formatting Tools

    Hands-on Lab: Introduction to String Processing


UNIT 13: String Processing with Regular Expressions

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions

    Wild card Characters

    Modifiers

    Anchors

    regex Combinations

    Regular Expressions - Examples

    Quote your regex's!

    grep

    sed

    Using sed

    less and slocate

    Regular Expressions in vi and vim

    Extended Regular Expressions

    Extended regex Syntax

    awk

    Using awk

    Hands-on Lab: String Processing with Regular Expressions

UNIT 14: Finding and Processing Files

    Objectives

    Agenda

    slocate

    slocate Examples

    find

    Basic find Examples

    find and Logical Operators

    find and Permissions

    find and Numeric Criteria

    find and Access Times

    Executing Commands with find

    find Execution Examples

    The Gnome Search Tool

    Hands-on Lab: Finding and Processing Files



UNIT 15: Investigating and Managing Processes

    Objectives

    Agenda

    What is a Process?

    How Processes Are Created

    Process Ancestry

    Process States

    Viewing Processes

    Sending Signals to Processes

    Terminating Processes

    Altering Process Scheduling Priority

    Altering Process Scheduling Priority- continued

    Interactive Process Management Tools

    Running a Process in the Foreground

    Running a Process in the Background

    Suspending a Process

    Listing Background and Suspended Jobs

    Resuming Suspended Jobs

    Compound Commands

    Scheduling a Process to Execute Later

    Scheduling Periodic Processes

    Using cron

    Crontab File Format

    Hands-on Lab: Process Control



UNIT 16: Network Clients

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Web Clients

    Firefox

    Other GUI Web Browsers

    Non-GUI Web Browsers

    wget

    Email and Messaging

    Evolution

    Configuring Evolution

    Evolution and GnuPG

    Other GUI Mail Clients

    Non-GUI Mail Clients

    Gaim

    Remote Access and File Transfer

    ssh: Secure Shell

    scp: Secure Copy

    telnet and the "r" Services

    rsync

    lftp

    gFTP

    smbclient

    File Transfer with Nautilus

    Xorg Clients

    Network Diagnostic Tools

    Hands-on Lab: Network Clients



UNIT 17: bash Shell Scripting

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Scripting Basics

    Creating Shell Scripts

    Creating Shell Scripts- Continued

    Generating Output

    Handling Input

    Exit Status

    Control Structures

    Conditional Execution

    Selection Structures: Using the if Statement

    File Tests

    String Tests

    Selection Structures: Using if / else Statements

    Selection Structures: Using the case Statement

    Repetition Structures: The for loop

    for and sequences

    Selection Structures: The while loop

    continue and break

    Using Positional Parameters

    Handling Parameters with Spaces

    Handling Filenames with Spaces

    Using Functions in Shell Scripts

    Using Functions - continued

    Scripting at the Command Line

    Shell Script Debugging

    Hands-on Lab: bash Shell Scripting



UNIT 18: So... What now?

    Objectives

    Agenda

    Some Areas to Explore

    Development

    ATRC Development Classes

    System Administrator Duties

    LPI Skills Courses

    RHCE/RHCT Skills Courses

    RHCA Skills Courses

    The Linux Community