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RedHat Linux Administration

Course Highlights:


The course would be taught in 5 days in corporate level. Online and inhouse training would be 35 hours.






  • Introduction to Unix, Installation of Linux

    • User, Group Administration, ACL
    • Automation of Jobs, Disk Partitions
    • Mounting File Systems
    • Backup and recovery, Printer Configuration
    • Basics of NFS, AutoFS
    • Kickstart Installation, Quotas
    • Troubleshooting Linux System
    • DHCP, NIS, DNS, Mail, Web, VSFTP, Squid, Samba
    • Securing your Linux Server with Firewall & SELinux

    Course content

    1. Introduction to UNIX & LINUX
      • History of UNIX and LINUX
      • Basic concepts of Operating System, Kernel, Shell & File
    2. System structure
      • Basic concepts of Linux
      • Differences between Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora
      • Commands of Linux
    3. Installation of Linux
      • Interactive Installation
      • Kickstart Installation
      • Startup & Shutdown Scripts
      • Booting Sequence
      • Kernel Initialization
      • INIT Process
    4. Software Package Administration
      • Installing and deleting software packages
      • Querying and updating software packages
    5. User and Group Administration
      • Creating and deleting users from the systems
      • Modifying users profile
      • Creating and deleting groups
      • Important system files related to user administration
      • Creating, deleting and modifying users and group & policy
    6. Advanced File Permissions
      • Assigning advanced files permissions SUID, SGID & Sticky bit
      • Creating, modifying and deleting ACL’s
    7. Disk Partitioning and Mounting File System
      • Using fdisk, disk druid utilities for disk partitioning
      • Using mkfs, commands to create file systems
      • Mounting various file systems
      • Auto mounting of file system
    8. Quotas
      • Enabling Quotas on partitions
      • Creating Quotas for users
      • Auditing Quotas
    9. Backup and Recovery
      • Introduction to various types of backup media
      • Backup and restoring data using dump / restore commands
      • Backup and restoring using tar and cpio commands
      • Automation of Jobs
    10. NFS
      • Configuring NFS server
      • Mounting NFS exports on NFS clients
    11. Network Information Service (NIS)
      • Basics of NIS
      • Configuring NIS Servers and client
      • Creating NIS users
    12. DNS with BIND 9
      • Basics of Internet
      • Basics of DNS and BIND 9
      • Configuring DNS primary server and secondary servers
      • Configuring DNS for multiple domains and sub domains
      • Configuring various client (Windows & Linux

    Advanced Course

    1. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
      • Configuring Linux as DHCP Server
      • Configuring various clients for DHCP Server (Windows & Linux)
    2. Mail Server (SMTP, POP3, IMAP)
      • Basics of Mail Servers
      • Configuring SMTP service using sendmail
      • Configuring POP3 / IMAP service on Linux
      • Integrating Antivirus & Antispam
    3. Web Server (Apache)
      • Basics of Web Service
      • Introduction to Apache
      • Configuring Apache for main site
      • Configuring multiple sites using IP-based, portbased and name-based virtual hosting
    4. FTP Server (vsftp daemon)
      • Basics of File Transfer Protocol
      • Configuring vsftpd for anonymous ftp service
    5. Proxy Server (Squid)
      • Basics of proxy services
      • Configuring proxy services
      • Creating ACL’s for controlling access to internet
    6. Samba Service
      • Basics of file sharing in Windows
      • Configuring Samba service for file sharing with windows systems
    7. Securing your Linux Server by IP Tables & SELinux
      • Implementing local & network security
      • Basic elements of Firewall using IP Tables
      • SELinux Overview
      • Working of SELinux
      • Customizing SELinux Policy
    8. Troubleshooting your system
      • Recovering the super user password
      • Recovering the boot loader (GRUB)
      • Troubleshooting Xserver problems
      • Troubleshooting network related problems
    9. RAID (Redundant Array of InExpensive Disks) & LVM
      • Implementing RAID on Linux
      • RAID levels (0, 1 and 5) configuration using RAID tools
      • Resizing the Partition using LVM
    10. Web based Administration
      • Installing Webmin on Linux
      • Administrating Linux machine remotely
      • Using Webmin as a tool for configuring various services on Linux
    11. LDAP
      • Configuration of LDAP
      • Creation of Users / Groups
    Please contact us for more details.