Lets Kick Linux for an Hour

MKS

Para
Installation File System Package Management Network System Administration System Monitoring

Installation
Basic things we have to know:
Configuration options Single/Duel Boot Hardware requirements Partition File System Selection Package Selection Start the setup.. Dont go away!! Some pop will be up you have to select

File System
What is a File System?
File system refers to the files and directories stored on a computer.

ext2 and ext3 file system journaling

Why the file system changes?
Availability, Data Integrity, Speed, Easy Transition

Time Saving

Strong

Higher throughput, 3 journaling mode

Easy Migration

Not finish
LVM Logical Volume Manager
It starts at the time of installation You fix disk spaces for /home, /boot, /opt etc

RAID So many folks, Actually what is it?

Redundant Array of Independent Disks combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array to accomplish performance Level 0, 1, 4, 5, linear
.

Stripping

Mirroring

Parity

Distributing Parity

Grouping of drives

Still Something More

Swap Why ? Disk Quota What is that and why dont we use that?
Do you want to know about user quota? If yes type the following - edquota username (Dont be fool, try
as root)

ACL access control list Package Management RPM, Tool, Network

And more
Typical layout of a Unix system:
/ - Root directory /bin - Fundamental user utilities /sbin - System and administrative programs /usr - majority of user utilities and applications /usr/bin - common utilities, tools, and applications

Let start with Network

Configuration Very Easy! I know where to put IP address, Gateway and DNS Firewall Why why do we need it? Why do you stop it? SAMBA NFS

Very Familiar
System Settings => Network

But What about ?

File Description /etc/resolve.conf List DNS servers for internet domain name resolution. Manual page for: /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts Lists hosts to be resolved locally (not by DNS). Manual page for: /etc/hosts

/etc/nsswitch.conf

List order of host name search. Typically look at local files, then NIS server, then DNS server. Manual page for: /etc/nsswitch.conf

/etc/sysconfig/network

Specify network configuration. eg. Static IP, DHCP, NIS, etc.

/etc/resolv.conf

host name resolver configuration file

search name-of-domain.com - Name of your domain or ISP's domain if using their name server nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX - IP address of primary name server nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX - IP address of secondary name server

/etc/hosts locally resolve node names to IP addresses

127.0.0.1 your-node-name.your-domain.com localhost.localdomain localhost

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX node-name

/etc/sysconfig/network

Firewall

Samba
What is it? What is the use of it?
ANOTHER PROTOCOL. Sharing Files with Windows and Printer sharing

NFS
Its a way to sharing files and directories Network File System

Basic System Administration

Add user and group Set date and time Display setting we called it XWINDOW Keyboard, Mouse configuring Automated tasks System Update

System Monitoring
Did you ever press history at the terminal? Do you know which processes are running at this time ? Do you know how stop a process you dont need? Where are those log files reside?/var/log How much memory is using at this moments? free How much disk space is free? df

Conclusion
If you know all the above You have a done a great job. This is the syllabus of RHCE.