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Introduction to Unix Administration
Peter Galvin

Topic: UNIX
Audience: Beginners

Description:
This tutorial is designed to teach Unix administration skills to those who are experienced with computers but new to Unix administration. The course covers all of the essential system administration topics, and stresses professional methods of administration. It uses Solaris as the example operating system when exploring detailed examples.

Length: 1 day lecture or 2 days hands-on

Course Outline:

  1. The Role of the System Administration
  2. Overview of the Unix File System
  3. User Authorization and Control
  4. The File System
  5. System Startup and Shutdown
  6. Boot Process and Start-up Files
  7. Installation
  8. Crash Recovery
  9. File System Backups
  10. System Tuning and Process Control
  11. Configuration and Devices
  12. Devices
  13. Admintool
  14. System Administration Goal: Transparency
  15. System Administration Goal: Interoperability
  16. TCP/IP and RPC
  17. Networking
  18. NFS
  19. File Systems
  20. Security
  21. User Services - Mail, Print, Data Transfer
  22. Monitor, Manage, Troubleshoot
  23. Performance

Prerequisites:
Computer literate students interested in learning

History:
Motorola University, SunWorld Expo, Sun User Group, Sun User Group UK, LISA 97, SANS 98, LISA 98

Last change: Sep 16, 2006 04:31:48 PM

The Speaker: Peter Galvin

Contact Organization: Corporate Technologies
Location: Massachusetts
Phone: 781-273-4100
Email: pbg@cptech.com
Website: www.cptech.com
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: All offers
Other payment info: Please contact me for tutorial fees (fee plus travel). For talks, will consider the opportunity.

Bio:
Peter Galvin is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, Inc. and was the Systems Manager for Brown University's Computer Science Department. He has written articles for Byte and other magazines, is security columnist for SunWorld magazine, and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts texbook. As a consultant and trainer, Mr. Galvin has taught tutorials in security and system administration and given talks at many conferences.
Recent talks include the topics of security architecture and firewalls.
Tutorials include Introduction to Unix Administration, Advanced Topics in Solaris Administration, and Introduction to Unix Security

Last change: Aug 31, 2006 02:53:47 PM

Other Talks by this speaker
Advanced Solaris System Administration Topics
Basics of Unix Security