 | Level: Intermediate Ian Shields (ishields@us.ibm.com), Senior Programmer, IBM
10 Jul 2007 Welcome to the next step in studying for the Linux certification
exam 102. This tutorial series serves as a comprehensive self-study guide so you can
take the exams with confidence. And even if you're not preparing for Linux
certification at this time, this series helps you build fundamental skills on Linux
systems administration. In this tutorial (the sixth in a
series of nine tutorials on exam 102 topics),
Ian Shields introduces you to administrative tasks. By the
end of this tutorial, you will know how to manage users and groups, set user
profiles and environments, use log files, schedule jobs, back up your data, and
maintain the system time.
Proceed through the tutorials in sequence, or choose your topic of interest, from
the
entire set of Linux certification tutorials on developerWorks.
In this tutorial
- Manage user and group accounts
- Tune user and system environments
- Configure and use system log files to meet administrative and security needs
- Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs to run in the future
- Maintain an effective data backup strategy
- Maintain system time
Objectives
This tutorial is organized according to the specific objectives of the
LPI exam for this topic. This tutorial can help you study for certification -- or
simply build a solid foundation in Linux system administration.
Prerequisites
To get the most from this tutorial, you should have a basic knowledge of Linux.
This tutorial builds on content covered in previous tutorials in this LPI series,
so you may want to first review the
tutorials for exams 101 and 102.
System requirements
You should have a working Linux system on which to practice the commands covered
in this tutorial.
Duration
More than 2 hours
Formats html, pdf
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