Linux 21 - Manage Fileownership and Permissions

Ownership

• chown/chgrp

Permissions

• Files & Folders
• Chmod
• octal
• umask

Special permissions

• suid
• guid
• sticky bit

Linux 20 - Manage Disk Quotas

–set up quotas on disk\
–edit settings
–check quotas
–generate reports
–hard limits, soft limits

Linux 19 - Mounting and Unmounting Filesystems

–manual mounting
–mounting on bootup
–user mountable file systems
–automount

Linux 18 - Maintain the Integrity of the Filesystem

- check integrity
- monitor free space inodes
- repair simple problems

Linux 17 - Create Partitions and Filesystems

partition
create filesystems
make swap space

Linux 16 - Basic File editing with VI

VI

Linux 15 - Search textfiles with regular expressions

• grep
• grep -F (fgrep)
• grep -E (egrep)
• regex (grep -R)

Linux 14 - Process Priorites

• niceness explained
• ps
• pstree
• htop
• nice
• renice

Linux 13 - Create, Monitor and Kill Processes

• background and foreground
• persistent processes
• interact with processes
• sort running processes in top

Linux 12 - Streams, Pipes and Redirects

• - stdin
• - stdout
• - stderr
• - tee
• - xargs

Linux 11 - Basic File Management

• copy, move, delete
• wildcards
• find files based on type, size & date
• tar, cpio, dd
• bzip2, gunzip

Linux 10 - Process Text Streams using filters

 

cat, cut, expand, fmt, head, od, join, nl, paste, pr, sed, sort, split, tail, tr unexpand, uniq, wc, xargs

Linux 9 - Working the Command Line

• Bash
  • Shell environment
  • PATH
  • environment variables
  • history
  • completion
• commands

Linux 8 - RPM and yum package management

• rpm
• rpm2cpio
• alien
• yum
  • /etc/yum.conf
  • /etc/yum.repos.d
• yum downloader

Linux 7 - Debian Package Management

• dpkg
• dpkg-reconfigure
• APT
  • apt-get, apt-cache
  • configuration
• aptitude

Linux 6 - Manage Shared Libraries

• what are shared libraries
• determining associated libraries
• configuring system
• ldd, lddconfig
• ld.so.cache, ld.so.conf.d

Linux 5 - The Boot Manager

• LILO
• GRUB
• BackUP the MBR

Linux 4 – Hard Disk Layout

• Partitons and Disk
• Filesystems
• mount points
• swap space
• design considerations

Linux 3 - Runlevels and Rebooting

• runlevels
• inittab
• init.d
• init / telinit
• reboot
• shutdown
• upstart

Linux 2 - Boot The System

• BIOS
• Bootloader
• Kernel
• dmesg
• /var/log/messages
• init

Linux 1 – Hardware Settings and Configuring Settings

In order to have a better understanding of GNU Linux we would need to understand it’s ways of seeing the hardware devices attached to the system.