Class unix admin advanced

From Tuxinternet

Synopsis

This class will teach you some of the more advanced techniques to being a Linux or UNIX admin. You will gain more in depth knowledge about the operating system, file system, and command line.

Prerequisites

Before you begin this class I suggest at least 4-5 years working in depth with a Linux or UNIX operating system. You should be very comfortable writing shell scripts and have working knowledge of sed and awk.

You should be able to edit and build the Linux kernel

You need to be proficient at the command line interface and the shell.

You need to have knowledge of hardware, building, repairing and maintaining systems.

This is a six week class and there is a lot of information it covers, expect to move fast!

Overview

• Tour of the hardware, buses, internal communication and disks
• Data flow, memory allocation and the pipe command/device
• /dev
• Advanced command line, scripting within a command
• loops, lists and subshells
• Taking control of your processes
• commands to add
• Network communication
  • ssh - what it can really do
  • building on nfs
  • Looking at layers
• newer technology
  • visualization
  • iscsi
• selinux