Linux System Administration on Red Hat
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Red Hat OS Installation
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Chapter 3: Finding the answer
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Chapter 4: Basic bash programming, part I
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Chapter 5: Basic bash programming, part II
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Chapter 6: Basic bash programming, part III
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Chapter 7: User Information
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Chapter 8: RPM Packages
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Various GPG package signing keys
Repository file for use with yum for a local class
server
Chapter 9: Partitions and filesystems
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Chapter 10: Filesystem tools
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Chapter 11: Useful sysadmin tools
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| Program | Package | Red Hat ES/AS 3.0 CD | Fedora Core 4 CD |
| lsof | lsof | 2 | 1 |
| fuser | psmisc | 2 | 1 |
| rsync | rsync | 2 | 1 |
| socklist | procinfo | Not there | 4 |
/proc documentation from the 2.4.22 kernel sources
sysctl doumentation
Chapter 12: Booting
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Chapter 13: Network Configuration
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Chapter 14: Network services
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Chapter 15: Network monitoring, testing, and tuning
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nmap and wireshark (ethereal) are on the
distribution media.
ttcp-3.7-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
netcat-0.7.1-1.i386.rpm
bonnie-1.4-0.i386.rpm
bonnie++-1.03-1.a.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Chapter 16: Performance monitoring
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iostat and sar are in the sysstat package on the
distribution media.
eater (right click and "save link as")
gkrellm rpm
Chapter 17: Backups
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Chapter 18: Basics
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Class files
These files are needed for the labs in the first half of the class. To unpack:
- Copy the classfiles.tar.gz file to your computer.
- Type:
tar xzf classfiles.tar.gz
Chapter 19: File manipulation
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Chapter 20: File and directory permissions
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Chapter 21: The vi editor
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Chapter 22: The shell
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Chapter 23: Some useful tools, part I
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Chapter 24: Some useful tools, part II
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Chapter 25: Processes
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SkillBridge Training
Examples from the class notes (or,
all as one file).
Selected Solutions from the class notes (no
looking until you have solved the problems!). Note that all solutions
are in an appendix of your course book.
All solutions in a compressed tar file.
Evaluation form (if needed)