// Linux Sysadmin Course

This course was prepared for a company who had recently expanded their unix operational team.  All of the team were competent Linux users, but some needed a structured introduction to Sys-Admin concepts.

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Course topics

  • Thinking in a POSIX way & Unix Philosophy
  • Files (Ownership, Access Types, Permissions)
  • Filesystems (Inodes, fstab, admin)
  • Processes (life-cycle, schedulers, job control, init, signals, IPC)
  • /proc and /dev
  • Users, Environments, User Administration
  • inetd
  • A detailed bash scripting introduction.

The course is released in an Attribution, Non-Derivative license.  You are welcome to use this course for any purpose, but must license the course in order to make changes.  Contact me for more information.