• 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
• DHCP, NIS, DNS, Mail, Web, VSFTP, Squid, Samba
• Securing your Linux Server with Firewall & SELinux
• Troubleshooting your Linux System

• History of UNIX and LINUX
• Basic concepts of Operating System, Kernel, Shell & File
• System structure
• Basic concepts of Linux
• Differences between Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora
• Commands of Linux

• Interactive Installation • Kickstart Installation

• Booting Sequence • Kernel Initialization • INIT Process

• Installing and deleting software packages
• Querying and updating software packages

• 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

• Assigning advanced files permissions SUID, SGID & Sticky bit
• Creating, modifying and deleting ACL’s

• Using fdisk, disk druid utilities for disk partitioning
• Using mkfs, commands to create file systems
• Mounting various file systems
• Auto mounting of file system

• Enabling Quotas on partitions
• Creating Quotas for users
• Auditing Quotas

• 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

• Configuring NFS server
• Mounting NFS exports on NFS clients

• Basics of NIS
• Configuring NIS Servers and client
• Creating NIS users

• 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)

• Configuring Linux as DHCP Server
• Configuring various clients for DHCP Server (Windows & Linux)

• Basics of Mail Servers
• Configuring SMTP service using sendmail
• Configuring POP3 / IMAP service on Linux
• Integrating Antivirus & Antispam

• Basics of Web Service
• Introduction to Apache
• Configuring Apache for main site
• Configuring Apache for multiple sites using IP-based, portbased
• and name-based virtual hosting

• Basics of File Transfer Protocol
• Configuring vsftpd for anonymous ftp service

• Basics of proxy services
• Configuring proxy services
• Creating ACL’s for controlling access to internet

• Basics of file sharing in Windows
• Configuring Samba service for file sharing with windows systems

• Implementing local & network security
• Basic elements of Firewall using IP Tables
• SELinux Overview
• Working of SELinux
• Customizing SELinux Policy

• Recovering the super user password
• Recovering the boot loader (GRUB)
• Troubleshooting Xserver problems
• Troubleshooting network related problems

• Implementing RAID on Linux
• RAID levels (0, 1 and 5) configuration using RAID tools
• Resizing the Partition using LVM

• Installing Webmin on Linux
• Administrating Linux machine remotely
• Using Webmin as a tool for configuring various services on Linux

• Configuration of LDAP
• Creation of Users / Groups

• Managing Virtual machine with xend
• Starting & stoping virtual machine
• Virtualization trouble Shooting