course-program.txt

1. Linux History
2. Partitioning
2.1. LVM1 & LVM2
2.2. RAID 1-10
2.3. Partition schemes
3. Filesystems
3.1. Ext2, Ext3, Ext4
3.2. ReiserFS, ReiserFS4
3.3. Cluster/Network file systems
3.3.1. NFS
3.3.2. CIFS
3.3.4. GlusterFS
3.3.5. FHGFS
3.3.6. OCFS2/GFS2 + DRBD
3.4. Psuedo Filesystems
3.4.1. Proc FS
3.4.2. Sys FS
3.4.3. Shm FS
3.5. Swap
3.6. FUSE
3.7. Directory structure
4. Linux Security Model
4.1. File permitions
4.2. Users & Groups
4.3. Special file flags
4.4. Special attributes
4.5. Device files
5. Boot procedure
5.1. Boot loaders
5.2. INIT/upstart/systemd
5.3. Runlevels
6. Processes
6.1. What is a process, how to work with it
6.2. Process security (RUID/RGID,EUID/EGID,SUID/SGID)
6.3. Inter-process communication(IPC) - Signals, Files, Flock, SHM, MQ, SEM, MMAP
6.4. /proc/PID/*
7. Command Line Shells - SH, BASH
8. Editors
8.1. VI, VIM, vim configuration
8.2. Pico
8.3. mcedit
9. Networking
9.1. Basic configurations
9.1.1. ifconfig, ipmask, ipcalc, route
9.1.2. iwconfig, iwlist, wpa_suplicant
9.1.3. resolving
9.2. Advanced configuration
9.2.1. BIND, whois, host, dig
9.2.2. dhcpcd, dhclient
9.2.3. ip
9.2.4. iptables, ebtables
9.2.5. vconfig, brctl, bonding
10. Software install
10.1. Build from source
10.2. Packaging systems
10.2.1. RPM - Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, Mandriva
10.2.2. DEB - Debian, Ubuntu
10.2.3. tgz - Slackware
11. Basic system services
11.1. syslogd
11.2. crond/atd
11.3. xinetd
11.4. logrotate
11.5. telnet/ssh
12. Advanced services
12.1. Apache web server
12.2. Nginx web server
12.3. MySQL database server
12.4. PgSQL database server
13. Building Kernel
13.1. Gathering information
13.2. Configuring kernel
13.3. Compiling the kernel
13.4. Installing the new kernel
13.5. Changeing kernel parameters(sysctl)
13.6. Kernel module parameters (modprobe.conf)
13.7. Building kernel with initrd/dracut
14. Patch/Security management
14.1. How to apply patches/upgrade system software
14.2. How often and how to apply security patches