s-orbital's Journal: Linux Administration Class

Linux Administration INFO 150D

Textbooks:
Linux Administration Handbook (Prentice Hall, Green)
O'Reiley's Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reiley, White)
Linux Administration: A Beginner's guide (Osborne, Blue)
Hacking Exposed, 4th Ed. (Osborne, Red)

Tentative Schedule:
Week 0 - Basic Concepts - Linux Concepts, OS model, read sys-adm chapter.

Week 1 - Command and Control - Command line cmds, shells, editors, packaging, LinuxConf

Week 2 - Editing - Regular Expressions, searching, vi, emacs, sed, gawk

Week 3 - BASH scripting I- Shell Scripting, pattern matching, file I/O, C++, lots of reading, etc

Week 4 - BASH scripting II - More advanced scipts, make files, init scripts, examples in Linux, etc.

Week 5 - Hardware Interaction - Filesystems, memory, init scripts, modules, etc

Week 6 - Roll Your Own - Comiling kernel, installing Gentoo, configure modules, etc.

Week 7 - Networking - Serving www, ftp, nfs, samba with LAN. Read about DHCP, DNS

Week 8 - Networking and Security - more Apache, MySQL, permissions, Iptables, WinNT, logs, Hacking Exposed, etc.

Week 9 - GUI stuff - Read about low-level X, api, drivers, qt, tweaking X, compiling new QT, kde, etc.

All this for 1 credit, but I will have some wicked skills soon.

Week 0 - Progress

[s-orbital]

Read a little bit on the net, got Green LA book, etc. Worked on general administration of SuSE laptop and SuSE server. The server always crashes and needs a new kernel. I might install the new kernel, and move that up in priority so I can do PHP stuff for the other class.

Regular Expression matching

[s-orbital]

I did read about that for 30 minutes, as well as man for grep and find.

Week 1 - Progress

[s-orbital]

Didn't get the command stuff done that I had hoped for. Got OpenOffice beta installed, compiled KDE 3.1.1

30 min - Read about Pattern matching, command combining in BASH
45 min - Read about filesystems in green bk.
6+ hours - DL'ng, compiling, and installing QT and KDE on Trition (laptop). I had a few bugs to work out.
Perhaps this might count for the X week since I am a bit behind?

Art

Week 2 Progress

[s-orbital]

On Monday and tuesday, I spent a considerable amount of time configuring and compiling a new kernel. Trouble was, since the old kernel was unstable, it crashed twice before I had set all the options in Xconfig. I dont know what was wrong with the old kernel, it came with SuSE 8.1.

With this new kernel, life is great. The system runs faster, I have had zarro crashes, I can play mp3s and install programs without worrying about sudden lockups. Yeah!

Also, after Sabbath yesterday, I spend the evening installing