Course
Number: IT151B
LINUX ESSENTIALS AND ADMINISTRATION
Configuration
- Configure
client network services and settings (for example: settings for TCP/IP)
- Configure
basic server network services (for example: DNS, DHCP, SAMBA, Apache)
- Configure
Linux as a PPP client
- Implement
basic routing and subnetting (for example: /sbin/route, IP forward statement)
- Configure
the system and perform basic make file changes to support compiling applications
and drivers
- Configure
files that are used to mount drives or partitions (for example: fstab, mtab, SAMBA,
nfs, syntax)
- Properly
manage the NFS, smb, and nmb daemons
- Managing
disk quota
- Implement
DNS and describe how it works (for example: edit /etc/hosts, edit /etc/host.conf,
edit /etc/resolv.conf, dig, host, named)
- Configure
a Network Interface Card (NIC) from a command line
- Configure
Linux printing (for example: CUPS, BSD LPD, SAMBA)
- Apply
basic printer permissions
- Configure
log files (for example: syslog, remote logfile storage)
- Configure
the X Window system
- Setup
a display manager
- Install
& Customize a Window Manager Environment
- Set
up environment variables (for example: $PATH, $DISPLAY, $TERM, $PROMPT, $PS1)
- Notify users on system-related issues
For more details, please contact our Technical Adviser at 503-725-2395 or email it@pdx.edu.

