Using Red Hat Linux — A 4-Day Course
Synopsis
This highly practical instructor led course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the Red Hat Linux operating system.
The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Bash Shell are introduced. The GNOME and KDE environments will also be explored.
Targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat certification curriculum, this course together with the Administering Red Hat Linux course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) qualification.
This course together with the Administering Red Linux and the Securing & Networking Red Hat Linux course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) qualification.
The delegate will practise:
- Using basic Shell commands
- Using and customising the desktop systems
- Accessing help and documentation facilities
- Printing and viewing files
- Creating, copying, renaming, moving and deleting files and directories
- Listing and changing access permissions on files
- Using the Shell's redirection and pipe facilities
- Editing text files using the vi/vim editors
- Monitoring and controlling processes
- Managing the contents of files
- Using the basic file and text searching utilities
- Customising their own login BASH shell environment
- Creating Shell scripts
- Use basic network commands to access remote systems
Course Objectives
To provide the skills needed to work productively in a Red Hat Linux environment. The delegate will posses the fundamental skills required to begin their studies in achieving the Red Hat certifications.
Suitable for
- This course is suitable for anyone who needs to understand and use the Red Hat Linux operating system.
- Delegates working towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) and the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certifications.
Prerequisites
- The delegate should be familiar with basic computer concepts and terminology, e.g. hardware, software, files and directories.
Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices
London — £1095 (+VAT)
- 6–9 Apr 2010
- 1–4 Jun 2010
- 22–25 Jun 2010
- 20–23 Jul 2010
- 31 Aug–3 Sep 2010
- 12–15 Oct 2010
- 16–19 Nov 2010
- 20–23 Dec 2010
Birmingham — £1095 (+VAT)
- 29 Mar–1 Apr 2010
- 4–7 May 2010
- 20–23 Jul 2010
- 12–15 Oct 2010
- 20–23 Dec 2010
Leeds — £1095 (+VAT)
- 20–23 Jul 2010
- 21–24 Sep 2010
- 2–5 Nov 2010
Contents:
Introduction to the LINUX Operating System
- A brief history of UNIX and LINUX
- GNU project
- GPL - GNU General Public license (Copyleft)
- The LINUX kernel
- Common Distrobutions of LINUX available
- Common Shells
- Login sessions
- Entering Commands in the Shell
- Basic Syntax Rules
- Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
- Basic Commands and Utilities
- Exercise
The Graphical Environment
- The X Windows System
- The GNOME Desktop
- Configuring the Desktop
- Exercise
Basic Commands
- Getting Help - man pages, info, /usr/share/doc
- Sources of information available on the web
- Basic File Handling Commands
- Printing and Locating Files
- Filename Wildcard Characters
- Command Aliases
- Command Line History, Viewing and Re-executing
- Exercise
The LINUX File System
- The file system structure
- Standard Linux Directories and files
- Pathnames : relative and absolute
- Navigating the file system using Shell Commands
- Navigating using file managers - konqueror/nautilus
- Managing Files and Directories
- Links
- Graphical File Managers
- Backup using tar
- Exercise
File Access Control
- File Access Criteria
- Users and Groups
- Basic File Access Permissions
- List Permissions
- Changing File Permissions
- Default File Permissions
- Extended Permissions and File Attributes
- Switching Users and User Groups
- Exercise
Redirection and Pipes
- Input and Output redirection
- Overwriting and appending redirection
- Using pipes to connect processes together
- Teeing output within pipelines
- Exercise
The vi/vim Editors
- Introduction to text file editing
- Basic Commands
- Copying and Moving Text
- Search and Replace Features
- Reading and Writing from Files
- Exercise
Processes
- Time-sharing
- What is a process?
- System and user processes
- Monitoring processes
- Killing processes
- Managing Background processes
- Using Job control
- Altering Process scheduling priorities
- Desktop Tools to Monitor and Manage Processes
- Exercise
More Basic Commands
- Finding Files
- Searching the Contents of Text Files
- Sorting Files
- Miscellaneous File Handling Commands
- Exercise
The Bash Environment
- What is an environment?
- Environment variables
- The system/user profiles
- The Shell Start up File
- Using Variables
- Bash Shell Options
- Exercise
Bash Shell Scripting Basics (Part 1)
- What is a Shell Script?
- Creating and Executing Shell Scripts
- User Interaction
- Command Line Arguments
- Decision Constructs Using the 'if' Statement
- Exercise
Bash Shell Scripting (Part 2)
- Case Statement
- Looping Constructs: for/while/until
- Functions
- Exercise
Basic Networking Commands
- Remote Login
- Using the Secure Shell: ssh
- Copying Files with scp
- Using ftp and sftp
- Displaying Networking Information
- Testing Access to a Remote Host
- Exercise
