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