4BCA5 - LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM
Introduction to Linux
- Basic Features of Linux operating system, Advantages of
using Linux, Installing requirement, Partitioning the
Hard drive for Linux, Installing the Linux system, System
shut down, Basic Architecture of Unix/Linux system,
Kernel, Shell, Unix file system
Managing the file system
- understanding the file and Directory system, Linux
standard directories, Commands for files and directories
cd, Ls, cp, md, nm, mkdir, rmdir, more, less, creating
and viewing files, using cat, file comparisons.
Linux Commands
- Understanding shells, understanding processes, connecting
processes with pipes, Redirecting input output, manual
help, Background processing, managing multiple processes,
kill, ps, who, sleep, Printing commands, grape, fgrep,
find, sort, vi editor
System administration
- Common administrative tasks, centralized processing
system and distributed processing system, the
client/server model. Managing user accounts- Adding a
user, password, creating groups, adding and deleting a
group, modifying group attributes, managing user
accounts, file security & Permissions, becoming super
user using su, Administration in a networked environment,
common networking administrative tasks, the network file
system, configuring Ethernet.
Text & Reference Books :-
- Using Linux - By Jack Tackett, David Gunter, PHI, EEE
edition
Linux System Administration Handbook : By Mark F.
Komarinski, Cary collett Addison Wesley.
