UNIX Tutorial - System Administration I

System Administration I covers installing UNIX and setting up and maintaining file systems and user accounts.

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This course is for anyone who wants to learn more about UNIX system administration or who is responsible for installing or maintaining a UNIX system. Our UNIX System Administration I tutorial offer unique benefits unavailable from other self-paced training vendors. Each course is developed using a rigorous set of criteria that includes quality content, interaction, graphics, and interspersed questions, making learning fun, interesting, and effective.

• Plan and perform the installation of UNIX on a machine
• Boot and shut down the system safely
• Describe system states
• Modify startup scripts
• Set up UNIX file systems and maintain them
• Perform file system backups
• Create or remove a user account

• UNIX Installation Basics
  Describes how to plan a UNIX installation. Shows how to set up multiple file systems. Lists the steps for installing UNIX.
  • Making installation decisions
  • Building an installation checklist
  • Naming the system
  • Deciding what packages to install
  • Laying out the disks
  • Connecting to internal and external networks
  • Performing the installation

• Starting Up and Shutting Down
  Explains how to boot and shut down the system. Specifies the contents of the initialization table (inittab) and the run state directories.
  • Booting the system
  • Understanding system states
  • Understanding startup scripts
  • Changing system states
  • Shutting down the system

• File System Administration
  Covers the setup and maintenance of UNIX file systems.
  • Setting up UNIX file systems
  • Administering disk devices
  • Maintaining files and free space for a network of machines
  • Performing file system backups

• User Administration
  Covers the setup and maintenance of UNIX user accounts.
  • What makes up a UNIX user account
  • Creating new user accounts
  • Removing user accounts

• Instructional steps -- walk through a procedure
• Exercises -- try it out
• Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
• Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
• Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
• Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
• Hotwords - See related information
• Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
• Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
• Printable Exercises - PDF downloadable files
• Sample Application Files - PDF downloadable files
• Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.

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