Topics covered in the class
- General Linux administration tasks: system commands, shells, processes, file management,
account management, system installation and updates, package management (dpkg and APT),
run levels, scheduled tasks, kernel configuration and compilation, printing.
- Networking:fundamentals of TCP/IP, subnetting and routing; host configuration; services.
- Network File System (NFS)
- Network Information Service (NIS)
- Unix and Windows connectivity: dual-boot, Samba.
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Kerberos
- Security topics
- Computational Linux Clusters: MPI, Sun Grid Engine scheduler.
- Email services
- Apache web server