Just saw the caldera training outline,
Thought it might help layout some options to add/go with the planned
content.
Course Description
The Linux System Administration course provides
five days of training for
System Administrators and VARs who wish to gain
practical, hands-on Linux
training. The course is not specific to a
particular Linux distribution and
presents information about using Linux in a
commercial environment. The last
day of the course focuses on OpenLinux
Installation. Additional courses will
be announced as they become available.
Linux System Administration (five days) Cost:
$1995
Day 1
Introduction to Linux, The System
Environment. LILO Boot Manger,
user accounts, logging in, logging out,
shutting down the system, mount,
unmount, Linux directory hierarchy,
directory listings, devices, device
drivers and files, setting up Linux
partitions, handling file system errors,
Linux shells, and customizing the
environment.
Day 2
Essential Commands, Administration of
Users/Groups. Essential
commands, including man, cd, ls, mkdir, pwd,
find, locate, updatedb, cp,
mv, rmdir, rm, alias, cls, ln, cat, file,
more, less, and grep. Superuser
functions, adding users, setting up groups,
changing users in groups,
setting up user, group, and global
permissions, and deleting users.
Day 3
Networking. Serial connections, inittab,
gettydefs. Setting up virtual
consoles and serial terminals, connecting to
a TCP/IP network server,
connecting to a time server, connecting to
NT and Windows, Samba,
setting up the domain name server, an email
gateway, and
masqueraded mail server. Setting up a POP
server, configuring a telnet
server, an FTP server, and a web server.
Using CGI. Internet security.
Introduction to configuring a firewall.
Day 4
Printing, Package Management, System
Initialization, Customizing the
Operating System, Troubleshooting. Printing,
package management,
DOS shell, reading a DOS disk, copying a DOS
disk. System initializing,
including using sys V initialization,
modifying the boot loader using LILO,
manually loading and unloading modules,
navigating /etc/sysconfig,
backing up the kernel, booting with LILO,
configuring your system,
compiling and installing the kernel,
automatically loading and unloading
modules, redefining the init process, and
troubleshooting.
Day 5
Detailed OpenLinux Installation. Preparing
to install, preparing the hard
disk, and installing/upgrading OpenLinux.
