Course Description

Linux System Engineer

Javed Akbar

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Essential Commands

    • Essential Commands

    • Manual Pages (man pages)

    • Copy, Move and Delete files

    • Use grep and regular expressions

    • Input Output Redirection

    • Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax

    • Accessing remote systems using ssh

    • Log in and switch users to multiuser targets

    • Using compression with gzip and bzip2

    • Using the tar command

    • Different ways of changing hostname

    • Interacting with the Linux Shell

    • Typing your first commands in Linux terminal
  • 3

    Operate running systems

    • Linux Boot Process

    • Editing GRUB

    • Editing GRUB from boot menu

    • systemd
  • 4

    Configuring Local Storage

    • Introduction

    • Adding additional disk to VM in VirtualBox

    • Creating MBR partition

    • Deleting MBR partition

    • Creating GPT partition

    • Deleting GPT partition

    • MBR and GPT comparison

    • Thin provisioning

    • LVM - introduction key terms

    • Creating Physical Volume and Volume Group

    • Creating Logical Volumes

    • Extend a Volume Group and a Logical Volume

    • Rename, Reduce, Extend and Remove Logical Volumes

    • Removing and Reducing Volume Groups and uninitializing Physical Volumes

    • Using parted command

    • Virtual Disk Optimizer installation

    • Create, List and Delete a VDO volume

    • Linux File Systems including Ext3, Ext4, XFS

    • Creating an Ext4 File System

    • Boot process

    • The PS command

    • The PS command

    • Nice, renice, kill and pkill

    • FSH - File system hierarchy
  • 5

    Manage users and groups

    • Introduction

    • User and group management

    • File permissions and use of the chmod command

    • Adding and deleting local users

    • Changing passwords

    • Configuring password aging

    • Password aging modifying using passwd command

    • Managing Linux Groups

    • Creating groups and adding a user to one of the groups

    • Use of groupmod and groupdel commands

    • Regular, root and sudo users

    • chown and chgrp commands
  • 6

    Manage security

    • Introduction

    • Zones and Predefined Services

    • How to check the status of firewalld daemon

    • Starting and stopping firewalld

    • Command options available for firewalld-cmd command

    • Setting firewalld panic flag

    • SSH configuration
  • 7

    Package Management

    • Package Management in RHEL 8 introducing DNF

    • YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified)

    • YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) - 2

    • RPM - Red Hat Package Manager
  • 8

    Linux Text Editors

    • Nano text editor - 1

    • Nano text editor - 2

    • Vim Text Editor - 1

    • Vim Text Editor - 2
  • 9

    Time Management in Red Hat Linux

    • timedatectl command

    • Setting timezones

    • Manually setting up date and time

    • Hardware clock and NTP
  • 10

    Kickstart

    • Introduction

    • Installing Apache

    • Apache Configuration

    • Kickstart client machine using web server

    • Kickstart client using ftp server

    • Using Kickstart Configurator
  • 11

    Task automation by cron, at and anacron

    • Introduction

    • Example of a cron job

    • cron and at

    • user access

    • anacron
  • 12

    Manage Basic Networking

    • IP Protocol

    • IPv4 addressing

    • IPv4 address configuration
  • 13

    Network File System (NFS)

    • Overview of the NFS client server architecture

    • Auto File System (AutoFS)