Linux System Administration Fundamentals
Working with the objectives of the LPIC-1 117-102 exam, we guide you through managing a Linux system. This is the 3rd of 4 courses that will prepare you for the LPIC-1 and Linux+ CompTIA certification.
What you'll learn
The second exam for the LPIC-1, 117-102 requires you to know a little about scripting and customizing the user environment. So we look at variables, aliases, and functions and how they can be added to login scripts before moving more fully into writing BASH scripts. With this firmly under our belts, we can look at managing the X server and the GUI found on Linux desktops and some servers. This will lead us into understanding users and groups and integration into the Active Directory. To make life easier for us, some tasks will be automated using Cron before finishing up with an explanation of the locale.
Table of contents
- Introduction to the Linux User's Environment 2m
- Understanding Variables in Linux 4m
- Demonstrating How to Set Local and Global Variables 5m
- Setting Shell Options in Linux 5m
- Using Command Aliases in Linux 5m
- Linux Functions as Part of the Environment 8m
- Persisting Settings With Login Scripts 9m
- Summary 4m
- Introduction to Shell Scripting 3m
- Creating Scripts 4m
- Demonstrating How to Create a Simple Script 7m
- Collecting User Input Techniques 3m
- Scripting With User Input 5m
- Code Snippets in gedit 5m
- Using if Statements 6m
- Using Case Allows Easy Testing on Many Conditions 10m
- Understanding Loops 4m
- Writing for Loops 9m
- Writing while Loops 5m
- Summary 4m
About the author
Andrew is an all around Linux professional with in depth knowledge of the OS and this is supported with scripting in bash, perl, python and ruby and application development in C, C++ and Java. Having worked for many years in training, Andrew has developed automated course build systems after endless time wasted on Friday nights. The first build system he built was aptly named "Friday nights." This has inspired his interest in all things deployment related. He has authored training courses on M... more