A two day course for System Administrators to introduce the basics of Unix System Administration

Day One
  • Disks and Filesystems - Filesystem types, physical and logical disks, choices and ramifications.
  • Backup and restore - Using the dump and restore commands for your system.
  • Shutdown and boot - Different shutdown methods, system startup files, run levels, boot chronology
  • Adding and removing users
  • Superuser


Day Two
  • Accounting - Log files, user accounting
  • System performance - Subsystems involved, monitoring performance
  • Controlling network daemons - Enabling/Disabling Services
  • Enhanced Security - Password control, security files and programs
  • Routines - Repeated tasks and how to schedule them