Linux Command Line Skills

1. Logging In
2. Secure Shell
3. ssh and sshd Configuration
4. Accessing Remote Shells
5. Transferring Files
6. Alternative sftp Clients
7. Switching User Contexts
8. sudo
9. Gathering Login Session Info

LAB TASKS

1. Login and Discovery
2. Switching Users With su
3. Introduction to ssh and scp

1. Filesystem Support
2. Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
3. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
4. Navigating the Filesystem
5. Displaying Directory Contents
6. Filesystem Structures
7. Determining Disk Usage With df and du
8. File Ownership
9. Default Group Ownership
10. Directory Manipulation
11. File Manipulation
12. Deleting and Creating Files
13. File Extensions and Content
14. Displaying Files
15. Previewing Files

LAB TASKS

1. Navigating Directories and Listing Files
2. Disk and Filesystem Usage
3. Manipulating Files and Directories

1. Gathering Login Session Info
2. Gathering System Info
3. Help from Commands and Documentation
4. Getting Help with man & info

LAB TASKS

1. Help with Commands

1. Filesystem Links
2. Archives with tar
3. Archives with cpio
4. The gzip Compression Utility
5. The bzip2 Compression Utility
6. The XZ Compression Utility
7. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
8. Text Editing
9. vi and Vim
10. Learning vi
11. Basic vi
12. Intermediate vi

LAB TASKS

1. Archiving and Compression
2. Text Editing with Vim

1. Searching Inside Files
2. The Streaming Editor
3. Regular Expression Overview
4. Regular Expressions
5. RE Quantifiers
6. RE Parenthesis
7. Communication Channels
8. File Redirection
9. Piping Commands Together

LAB TASKS

1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
2. Extended Regular Expressions
3. Using Regular Expressions With sed
4. Text Processing

1. User and Group Concepts
2. User Administration
3. Modifying Accounts
4. Group Administration
5. Password Aging

LAB TASKS

1. User and Group Administration

1. File Ownership
2. File and Directory Permissions
3. SUID and SGID on files
4. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
5. Changing File Permissions

LAB TASKS

1. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions

1. Automating Tasks
2. at/batch
3. cron
4. The crontab Command
5. crontab Format
6. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
7. Anacron
8. Viewing Processes
9. Managing Processes
10. Tuning Process Scheduling

LAB TASKS

1. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
2. Adding System cron Jobs

1. Managing Software
2. RPM Features
3. RPM Architecture
4. RPM Package Files
5. Working With RPMs
6. Querying and Verifying with RPM
7. Updating the Kernel RPM
8. Managing Software Dependencies
9. Using the YUM command
10. YUM package groups
11. Configuring YUM
12. Yum Plugins
13. YUM Repositories

LAB TASKS

1. Managing Software with RPM
2. Managing YUM Repositories
3. Using YUM
4. Creating a Custom RPM Repository

1. Booting Linux on PCs
2. /sbin/init
3. /etc/inittab
4. /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
5. Runlevel Implementation
6. System Configuration Files
7. Managing Daemons
8. Controlling Service Startup
9. Shutdown and Reboot

LAB TASKS

1. Managing Services With chkconfig
2. Boot Process
3. Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process

1. Anaconda: An Overview
2. Anaconda: Booting the System
3. Anaconda: Common Boot Options
4. Anaconda: Loading Anaconda and Packages
5. Anaconda: Storage Options
6. Anaconda: Troubleshooting
7. FirstBoot
8. A Typical Install

LAB TASKS

1. Linux Installation

1. Introducing libvirt
2. libvirt: Basic Concepts
3. libvirt: Storage Architecture
4. libvirt: Network Architecture
5. libvirt: Graphical Tools
6. libvirt: Command Line Tools
7. virsh: Basics
8. virsh: Common Tasks
9. virt-install
10. libguestfs and guestfish

LAB TASKS

1. Installing a Virtual Machine