1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

• Introduction

2. Where to Start

• Linux UNIX Administration Fundamentals
• Getting help on Linux
• Advance man command

3. Package Management

• Introduction to package management
• Installing from RPM
• Making a local apt-get repo
• Making local yum repo
• Tips and tricks

4. Shell Scripting Guide

• Introduction to shell scripting
• Using variables
• The sort command
• Basics of BASH Script
• Shell Functions
• Looping
• Perl
• Perl Arrays
• Perl Script Arguments
• Python Scripting - Part A
• Python Scripting - Part B

5. Booting and Shutting Down

• Starting up and Shutting down Machines
• Start-up Daemons
• Booting a second OS
• System Run levels
• Lab Exercise: Creating a custom Daemon

6. User Access Control

• User Access Control Fundamentals
• The Power of Root
• Delegating Root Powers with Sudo
• Delegating Root Powers with Sudo - Part B
• System Accounts

7. Controlling Processes

• Process Control Fundamentals
• Ownership
• Process Spawning and Termination
• Terminating a process
• Using the /proc file system

8. The File System

• The File System Fundamentals
• Important Directories
• Device File Numbers
• File Deletion with RM
• What do permissions offer?
• Changing File ownership

9. Adding New Users

• User Management Part A
• User Management Part B
• UID - User Identification
• The login shell
• The useradd command

10. Storage

• Storage
• The basics - adding a disk Part A
• The basics - adding a disk Part B
• Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
• LAB: create a RAID5 array on Red Hat Linux
• Logical Volume Management (LVM)
• Logical volume resizing Part A
• Logical volume resizing Part B
• SCSI ovet IP (iSCSI)

11. Periodic Processes

• Cron and at jobs
• The command field
• The crontab command
• The at command

12. Backups

• Backups part A
• Backups part B
• LAB: Calculate the frequency by which file change
• Using tar
• Using dump Part A
• Using dump Part B

13. Syslog and Log files

• Log management
• Severity levels
• Lab: using logAnalyzer for central log management
• Log rotation

14. TCP/IP Networking

• TCP/IP overview
• The Link layer
• Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR)
• Routing

15. Netfilter and IP tables

• Net filter
• The LOG action
• IP tables configuration
• Lab: configure a Linux box to act as a NAT device

16. DNS: The Domain name system

• DNS
• Caching Part A
• Caching Part B
• LAB: install a caching server
• LAB: install a master DNS server
• LAB: Configure DNS slave Server

17. The Network File System

• NFS
• Effecting changes
• Using the shares
• Mounting on demand

18. Sharing files with Windows

• SAMBA
• Allowing access through iptable
• LAB; creating and using a SAMBA share

19. Email Services

• E-mail services
• LAB: configuring a mail server using Postfix

20. Network management and debugging

• Network Analysis and Troubleshooting
• Connection states
• Sniffing on the network

21. Security

• Linux Security
• How to secure your system?
• Scan for open ports (nmap)

22. SSH tips and tricks

• Ssh tips and tricks
• Key-based authentication
• Tunnelling application traffic

23. Web Hosting

• Web Hosting
• The Apache web server
• Secure HTTP (https)

24. Performance Analysis

• Performance Analysis
• Check your resources
• Memory management