Linux System Administration (LPI) (LSA)

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials

• Course Structure and Agenda

• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: FILE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

• File system types

• Partitioning a disk

• Creating filesystems

• Displaying disk usage

• Mounting and unmounting file systems

• Locating files in use

• Exercise

Session 2: ADVANCED FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS

• Logical Volume Management

• Checking and repairing the file system

• Growing file systems

• Disk quotas

• Listing swap areas

• Creating and removing swap areas

• Exercise

Session 3: USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

• The User Private Group scheme

• Files used in creating a user

• Adding users via the command line and YaST

• Groups

• Password administration

• The Bash Shell environment

• Configuring user limits

• Extended permissions

• The sudo command

• User monitoring and communication

• Exercise

Session 4: PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

• The Red Hat Package Manager (rpm)

• Verifying Software

• Querying installed packages

• Installing packages

• The upgrade mechanism

• Removing packages

• Converting rpm packages to cpio format

• Extended package management

• Exercise

Session 5: SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

• System startup process

• The startup script framework

• Managing services using YaST

• Starting and stopping services dynamically

• Managing services with systemd

• suseconfig and /etc/sysconfig

• shutdown and rc

• Exercise

Session 6: CONFIGURING PRINTERS

• The Common Unix Printing Service CUPS

• Printer devices and configuration

• Installing printers

• Configuring the CUPS server

• Printer options

• Print commands

• Managing print queues

• Exercise

Session 7: PROCESS MONITORING AND SCHEDULING

• Monitoring processes

• Shared libraries

• Scheduling processes with at

• Scheduling processes with cron

• crontab command options

• Managing anacron

• Exercise

Session 8: SYSTEM SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION

• The secure shell OpenSSH

• Public/private key authentication

• X11 forwarding

• Encryption with Gnu Privacy Guard GPG

• crontab command options

• Exercise

Session 9: CONNECTING LINUX TO THE NETWORK

• Basic network configuration

• IPv4 addressing

• IPv6 addressing

• Network protocols

• Network services and port numbers

• Managing network devices

• Hostnames and DNS

• Searching domains

• Routing under Linux

• Exercise

Session 10: INTERNET SERVICES

• Network services

• The xinetd daemon

• Protecting services with TCP wrappers

• Checking network service ports

• Configuring network time

• Interacting with the hardware clock

• Remote administration

• Exercise

Session 11: BACKUP AND RESTORE

• Archiving with tar

• Archiving with cpio

• Using the dd command

• Archiving and compression

• Mirroring data between systems: rsync

• Other backup tools

• Exercise

Session 12: LOCALISATION

• Localisation overview

• Locale variables

• Character encoding

• Setting the locale

• The time zone

• Converting character sets

• Exercise

Session 13: CONFIGURING MARIADB AND USING SQL

• Installing MariaDB server and client

• Creating the database and tables

• The order by and group by clauses

• Joining tables

• Updating and deleting rows

• Backing up your database

• Exercise

Session 14: DEVICES UNDER LINUX

• Device services

• Device file naming conventions

• Examining hardware

• Hardware configuration messages

• Software configuration messages

• System bus support

• Managing disk parameters

• Detecting new hardware

• System overview: siga

• Exercise

Session 15:SYSTEM LOGGING

• rsyslog configuration

• Testing using logger

• Managing logs with logrotate

• The systemd journal: journalctl

• Exercise

Session 16:TROUBLESHOOTING

• The troubleshooting process

• Booting into maintenance mode

• Booting the rescue system

• Exercise

Addendum: Reference Materials (provided within the course handbook for additional reading)

APPENDIX A - INSTALLING LINUX

• Installing Linux

APPENDIX B - ELECTRONIC MAIL

• Configuring Postfix and Sendmail

APPENDIX C - X WINDOWS AND ACCESSIBILITY

• Configuring the X Windows GUI interface and desktops

• Configuring the desktop for disabled users

APPENDIX D - PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

• Additional software package management tools

APPENDIX E - ADDITIONAL COMMANDS

• Miscellaneous Shell commands

NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.