October 2013
Intermediate
5h 53m
English
Closed Captioning available in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Linux System Administration LiveLessonsprovides novice Linux users with more than five hours of step-by-step video training covering essential system administration responsibilities and skills with professional system administrator Ben Whaley.
The content comprises nine video lessons featuring command-line examples and conceptual discussion. The video tutorials offer practical advice for real world system administration, such as encouraging the use of shell shortcuts and automation to reduce tedious manual tasks and improve administrative efficiency.
About the Instructor:
Ben Whaleyis the co-author of the UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, widely regarded as the de facto system administration text. He has been managing Linux systems since 1999 and is a Red Hat Certified Engineer. He currently uses Linux to power the Amazon Web Services infrastructure at Anki, a robotics and artificial intelligence company in San Francisco.
Skill Level:
- Intermediate
Who Should Take This Course?
- Individuals seeking to learn more about the system administration discipline
- Individuals with some existing Linux command line experience looking to deepen their knowledge
- Users returning to Linux wishing to learn new tricks or refresh their skills
What You Will Learn:
- How to use Vagrant and VirtualBox as a makeshift lab environment
- Linux’s history and background
- Shell shortcuts and basic bash scripting
- The Linux startup and shutdown procedures
- Management of user accounts
- The use of sudo to control access to privileged commands
- Interact with processes from the command line
- The filesystem layout
- File permissions and attributes
- Log file management with syslog and logrotate
- Linux on a TCP/IP network
- Network debugging with tcpdump and ping
- Using SSH for remote management
- The iptables host-based firewall
- How to secure a Linux system
Course Requirements:
- Some existing familiarity with operating systems concepts
- The fundamentals of TCP/IP networking (what an IP address and subnet mask are, the purpose of DNS, ICMP)