Day 1

       

Linux Fundamentals

1. What is Linux?
2. The Free Software Model
3. Linux Features
4. Linux Advantages
5. Linux Limitations
6. Linux Distribution Mechanism
7. Linux Standards
8. Linux Documentation
Labs & Self-Directed Exercises

Installation

1. The Installation CD
2. Local Installations
3. Network Installation
4. Rescue disk
5. Partitioning Schemes
6. Easy Dual Booting
8. Exercises
       
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Hardware Configuration

1. Memory Support
2. Resource Allocation
3. USB Support
4. SCSI Devices
5. Network cards
6. Setting up modems
7. Printer Configuration
8. Exercises

Managing Devices

1. Disks and Partitions
2. Partitioning Tools:
3. Bootloaders
4. Managed devices
5. Quotas
6. Exercises

Day 2

The Linux Filesystem

1. The Filesystem Structure
2. Formatting and File System Consistency
3. Monitoring Disk Usage
4. File Permissions
5. Exercises
The Command Line
1. The interactive shell
2. Variables
3. Input, Output, Redirection
4. Metacharacters and Quotes
5. The Command History
6. Other Commands
7. Exercise
       

File Management

1. Moving around the filesystem
2. Finding Files and Directories
3. Handling directories
4. Using cp and mv
5. Hard Links and Symbolic Links
7. Touching and dd-ing
8. Exercises
Process Management
1. Viewing running processes
2. Modifying Processes
3. Processes and the shell
4. Exercises

Day 3

Text Processing

1. cat the Swiss Army Knife
2. Simple tools
3. Manipulating text
4. Exercises
Software Installation
1. Introduction
2. Static and Shared Libraries
3. Source Distribution Installation
4. The RedHat Package Manager RPM
5. The Alien Tool
6. Exercises

Advanced Text Manipulation

1. Regular Expressions
2. The grep family
3. Working with grep
4. egrep and fgrep
5. The Stream Editor - sed
6. Exercises

Day 4

Using vi

1. vi Modes
2. Text Items
3. Inserting Text
4. Deleting Text
5. Copy Pasting
6. Searching
7. Undoing
8. Saving
9. Exercises

The X Environment

1. Introduction
3. Configuring X11R6
4. Controlling X clients
5. Starting X
6. The Display Manager
7. Troubleshooting X Clients
8. Choosing a Window Manager
9. Exercises

REVIEW LPI101

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Day 5

The Linux Kernel

1. Kernel Concepts
2. The Modular Kernel
3. Routine Kernel Recompilation
4. Exercises
Booting Linux
1. Understanding Runlevels
2. The joys of inittab
3. LILO the Linux boot Loader
4. From boot to bash
5. Exercises
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Managing Groups and Users

1. Creating new users
2. Working with groups
3. Configuration files
4. Command options
5. Modifying accounts and default settings
6. Exercises

Network Configuration

1. The Network Interface
2. Host Information
3. Stop and Start Networking
4. Routing
5. Common Network Tools
6. Exercises

Day 6

TCP/IP Networks

1. Binary Numbers and the Dotted Quad
2. Broadcast Address, Network Address and Netmask
3. Network Classes
4. Subnets
5. The TCP/IP Suite
6. TCP/IP Services and Ports
7. Exercices

Network Services

1. The inetd daemon (old)
2. The xinetd Daemon
3. TCP wrappers
4. Setting up NFS
5. SMB and NMB
6. DNS services
7. Sendmail main Configuration
8. The Apache server
9. Exercises

Day 7

Bash Scripting

1. The bash environment
2. Scripting Essentials
3. Logical evaluations
4. Loops
5. Expecting user input
6. Working with Numbers
7. Exercises

Basic Security

1. Local Security
2. Network Security
3. The Secure Shell
4. Time Configuration
5. Kernel security

Day 8

Linux System Administration

1. Logfiles and configuration files
2. Log Utilities
3. Automatic Tasks
4. Backups and Compressions
5. Documentation
5. Exercises

Setting up PPP

1. Serial Modems
2. Dialup Configuration
3. pppd and chat
4. PPPD peers
5. Wvdial

Day 9

Printing

1. Filters and gs
2. Printers and print queues
3. Printing Tools
4. The configuration files
5. Exercises

REVIEW LPI 102

EXAM PREPARATION (LPI101 & LPI102)