Topics covered in the class
- General Linux administration tasks: system commands, shells, processes, file management.
- Installation and upgrade
- Kernel configuration and compilation
- Networking:fundamentals of TCP/IP, subnetting and routing; host configuration; network services.
- Network File System (NFS)
- Network Information Service (NIS)
- Unix and Windows connectivity: dual-boot, Samba.
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Shell scripting (bash, grep, awk, sed)
- Run levels, system startup and shutdown; scheduled tasks: at, cron
- Security topics
- Email services
- Computational Linux Clusters: MPI, Sun Grid Engine scheduler.
- DNS server