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Unix & Linux Admin

This document provides an overview of topics related to Unix and Linux administration including Linux commands, the file system, file manipulation commands, text editing with vi, system administration tasks, user and group management, file system management, system initialization, kernel services, network configuration, xinetd services, RPM package management, printing administration, LVM, RAID, and backups. It covers essential Linux concepts, commands, and configuration files.

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Unix & Linux Admin

This document provides an overview of topics related to Unix and Linux administration including Linux commands, the file system, file manipulation commands, text editing with vi, system administration tasks, user and group management, file system management, system initialization, kernel services, network configuration, xinetd services, RPM package management, printing administration, LVM, RAID, and backups. It covers essential Linux concepts, commands, and configuration files.

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Unix & Linux Administration

Redhat Linux Paper-1


Essentials Overview of UNIX History of Linux Linux architecture
Kernel Shell

Understanding Linux commands


Displaying system date and time : date Displaying present and working users : who and whoami Calculator : bc Machine characteristics : uname Knowing a terminal : tty Displaying a calendar : cal Displaying a message : echo and printf

Files System
Linux file Hierarchy Concepts Listing files and Directories : ls more and less command The Seven Fundamental File types Creating and viewing the files : cat Creating,Modyfyfing,Changing and Removing directories : mkdir,cd,rmdir Moving and Renaming files : mv Copying a files : cp command with attributes Deleting a files : rm command with attributes Links Hard Link and Soft Link Absolute path name Relative path name

Comparisons
cmp comm diff

Compressions
zip compress gzip bzip2

File attributes
chmod chown

Filter Commands
which, wheris, locate whatis, find coammnds with attributes.

String Processing
head, tail wc,sort,uniq cut, paste

String Processing with regular expressions


sed grep

Process
Introduction Process concepts Process basics Process commands

Job Control
oat,batch,cron,

Shell
Configuring shell Variables Local variable Environment Variable

Shell startup scripts


Login shell Non-Login shell

VI editor
Overview of vi editor Three modes of vi editor Saving and quitting Navigation Editing a text Undoing changes Yank and paste Changing, Deleting Searching for pattern Search and Replace Handling multiple files in ex-mode

System Administration
RedHat Installation (Text and Graphical Mode
Standalone Installation NFS Installation kick start installation

User and Group Management


Creation of users and Groups Understanding /etc/passwd,/etc/group, and /etc/shadow Switching accounts : su Sudo Password aging policies Creation of quotas for users groups and files systems.

File System Management


Disk partitioning Managing partitions Understanding file system Creating file system ext/2 to ext/3 Converting file system ext/3 to ext/2 Reverting file system Understanding virtual file system /proc a data with mount command Managing Mounting File system Mounting CD/DVDs, USB, and Floppys. Understanding and Configuring /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab configuration files

System Initialization
Boot sequence overview Bios initialization Boot loader Grub boot loader and grub.conf configuration file Troubleshooting of grub boot loader Kernel Initialization Init initialization Run levels ( 0 6) Virtual Consoles Controlling services System Shutdown and reboot

Kernel Services
Kernel overview Kernel hardware support Configuring kernel parameters

Network Configuration
Configuring Network Utilities Netconfig, setup, neat and with configuration file. if down/ifup,ifconfig,ping Binding multiple address Configuring range of ip-address ssh,telnet rcp/scp

write/wall

Xinted services
Overview of xinetd services and non-xinetd services Configuring xinetd and non-xinetd services

RPM
Overview of RPM Installing, Removing a software with rpm rpm queries rpm verifications

Printing and Administration Tools


Configuring a standalone printer Configuring a Network printer lpd cups

LVMs ( Logical Volume Manger)


Overview of LVMS Creation of Physical Volume Creation of Volume Group Creation of Logical Partition Extending the Vol Group Extending the Logical partition Removing Vol group and Logical partition

RAID
Overview of RAID Types of RAIDS Configuring RAID 0,1 and 5

Backups
Understanding of Different backups Taking backups with dump/restore,cpio,tar/star

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