RH033 Red Hat?? Linux Essentials Training Class

Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

1. Linux Ideas and History

• What is Open Source?


• Linux Origins


• Red Hat Distributions


• The Fedora Project


• Linux Principles

2. Linux Usage Basics

• Logging into Red Hat Enterprise Linux


• Starting X from the Console


• Accessing the Command Line from X


• Changing Your Password


• The root User


• Elevating Your Privileges


• Editing Text Files

3. Running Commands and Getting Help

• Running Commands


• Getting Help


• The whatis Command


• The --help Option


• Reading Usage Summaries


• The man and info Commands


• Documentation

4. Browsing the Filesystem

• Linux File Hierarchy Concepts


• Current Working Directory


• File and Directory Names


• Absolute and Relative Pathnames


• Changing Directories


• Listing Directory Contents


• Copying and Moving Files and Directories


• Creating and Removing Files and Directories


• Using Nautilus


• Determining File Content


• Viewing Files

5. Using the bash Shell

• bash Introduction, Heritage, and Features


• Command Line Shortcuts


• History Tricks


• Command Line Expansion


• Command Editing Tricks


• gnome-terminal

6. Standard I/O and Pipes

• Standard Input and Output


• Redirecting Standard Input and Output


• Overwriting vs. Appending


• Redirecting Standard Error


• Redirecting Both Standard Output and Error


• Using Pipes to Connect Processes

7. Text Processing Tools

• Tools for Extracting Text


• Tools for Analyzing Text


• Tools for Manipulating Text


• Special Characters for Matching Text
  
  

Intermediate Tools

8. Basic System Configuration

• Configuring Date and Time


• Configuring Printers


• Configuring the Network


• System Logs

9. vi and vim

• Introducing vim


• vim basics


• Opening, Modifying, and Saving Files


• Using Command Mode


• Undoing Changes


• Visual Mode


• Splitting the Screen


• Configuring vi and vim


• Learning More

10. Configuring the bash Shell

• Using bash Variables


• Local and Environment Variables


• Configuration and Information Variables


• Variable Expansion


• Protecting Against Variable Expansion


• Aliases


• How bash Expands the Command Line


• Types of Shells


• bash Startup and Exit Scripts


• Using Variables in Shell Scripts

11. Finding and Processing Files

• The slocate and find Commands


• Basic find Examples


• find and Logical Operators


• find and Permissions


• find and Numeric Criteria


• find and Access Times


• Executing Commands with find


• The Gnome Search Tool

12. Network Applications

• Firefox and other Web Browsers


• Evolution and other E-mail Clients


• E-mail, Encryption, and Digital Signatures


• The Gaim Messaging System


• Encrypted Communications with ssh and scp


• telnet and the "r" services


• FTP Clients


• Connecting to Windows Disk Shares


• File Transfer with Nautilus


• Network Diagnostic Tools

Essential Topics in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administration

13. Managing Users, Groups, and Permissions

• The Linux Security Model


• Users and Groups


• Permission Types


• Examining Permissions


• Changing Permissions Using Symbolic and Numeric Methods


• Changing Permissions Using Nautilus

14. Advanced Topics in Users, Groups, and Permissions

• User and Group ID Numbers


• The /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group files


• System Users and Groups


• Changing Your Identity


• User Information Commands


• Default Permissions


• Special Permissions

15. The Linux Filesystem In-Depth

• Partitions and Filesystems


• Inodes and Directories


• cp, mv, rm, and inodes


• Symbolic (or Soft) Links and Hard Links


• The Seven Fundamental Filetypes


• Checking Free Space


• Mounting CDs, DVDs, USB Media, and Floppy Disks


• Why Archive Files?


• Creating, Inspecting, and Extracting Files from File Archives


• Why Use File Compression?


• Compression Utilities


• Compressing Archives

16. Investigating and Managing Processes

• What is a Process?


• Process States


• Viewing Processes


• Sending Signals to Processes


• Terminating Processes


• Altering Process Scheduling Priority


• Interactive Process Management Tools


• Running a Process in the Background


• Suspending a Process


• Listing Background and Suspended Jobs


• Compound Commands


• Scheduling a Process To Execute Later


• Scheduling Periodic Processes


• Crontab File Format

17. Essential System Administration Tools

• Installation


• Managing Services


• Managing Packages


• Securing the System

18. What Now?

• Some Areas to Explore


• Development


• Red Hat Development Classes


• System Administrator Duties


• RHCE/RHCT Skills Courses


• RHCA and RHCSS Skills Courses


• The Linux Community

IT professionals who want to build user-level Linux skills and learn some
fundamental system administration skills before deepening their knowledge of
Linux System and Network Administration; Windows users and Windows system
administrators who wish to learn Linux and begin to learn to administer Linux;
programmers, database administrators, and others who have worked on other
operating systems and now wish to perform these tasks on a Linux system.

Red Hat training and cert

User-level experience with any computer system, including use of keyboard and
mouse, use of menus, and use of any graphical user interface.