[RHCE] Reminder: first meeting tomorrow (Thursday, May 30) at 7:00pm

[Jim Thompson]

Just a reminder that our first meeting of the RHCE
group is Thursday, May 30 at 7:00pm. We'll meet at
Computer Service Partners in Raleigh.

CSP is located at 1310 Nowell Road:

Basic directions -
>From the West:
- Take I-40 East to Exit 290 (NC 54/Chapel Hill Rd)
- Turn LEFT onto Chapel Hill Rd
- Turn LEFT onto Nowell Rd (.7 mi)
- CSP will be on the Right hand side of Nowell (.8 mi)

>From Raleigh/I-440
- Take the Wade Ave/I-40 West Exit
- Take the Edwards Mill Road Exit
- Turn LEFT on Edwards Mill Rd
- Turn RIGHT at the 2nd light onto Trinity Rd.
- Turn LEFT onto Nowell Rd (.4 mi)
- CSP will be on the Left (.3 mi).

I'm going to attach the initial syllabus to the end of
this mail. Please be thinking of a couple of things:

- Is there another textbook which is better than the
propopsed RedHat Press book or which we should
supplement the RedHat Press with?
- Which session do *you* want to lead? You don't have
to be an expert on the subject now, just by the time
of the meeting. So, if you don't know a lot about NIS,
volunteering to lead that day's session might be
valuable for you. I'll pass around a sign-up sheet at
our first meeting.


Jim
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First draft of syllabus
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Meeting 1 (Thursday, May 30 7-9pm)
General introduction/planning stuff - everyone meets
and agrees on a text.
Conscripting of "volunteers" to lead each session.

Meeting 2 (Thursday, June 13, 7-9pm)
Hardware and Installation
- Partitioning (fdisk, utils to repartition existing)
- Boot loaders (lilo/grub and config files)
- Boot messages
- System startup scripts, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
- System runlevels
- System config files (xinetd, rc scripts,
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, shell config
scripts)...

Meeting 3 (Thursday, June 27, 7-9pm)
Configuration and Administration 
- User accounts - create/delete
- home directory issues
- linuxconf
- Redhat package manager
- Chkconfig
- Quotas
- File system commands (ls, cp, rm, mv, chown, chgrp,
ln....)

Meeting 4 (Thursday, July 11, 6-10pm)
Alternate Installation Methods [LAB 1]
- Kickstart
- Network installs
- Typical install "gotchas"

Meeting 5 (Thursday, July 25, 7-9pm)
Kernel Services and Configuration 
- Compiling and installing
- Kernel source
- Modules

Meeting 6 (Thursday, Aug 8, 6-10pm)
Standard Networking Services  [LAB 2]
- Apache, FTP, Samba, Mail, Print, DHCP, Xntp/rdate,
SSH, DNS...

Meeting 7 (Thursday, Aug 22, 7-9pm)
X Window System 
- X-server/X-clients
- Configuration scripts
- startup
- Remote-X
- Troubleshooting and common problems

Meeting 8 (Thursday, Sept 5, 6-10pm)
User and Host Security, Routers, Firewalls, and
Troubleshooting  [LAB3]
- PAM
- NIS
- Squid
- Syslog
- COPS
- Ipchains, iptables, ipaliasing, TCPWrappers
- NFS

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