[RHCE] first meeting notes

[Jim Ray]

any volunteers to facilitate next week's meeting?

TRILUG RHCE – Organizational Meeting
3 September 2003
1. meeting time – Wednesdays 8-10 PM

2. meeting place – 2610 Vanderbilt Ave

3. irc time – Thursdays 8-10 PM
Attendees
Craig Isdahl craig at dashsystems.com 878-3274 x201
Matt Frye matthew.frye at rexhealth.com 784-3791
Steve Hoffman srhoofman at bellsouth.net 795-3679
Max Woodbury max.teneyck.woodbury at verizon.net 403-9110
Jim Ray jim at neuse.net 838-1672 x201
Greg Woodbury ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us 493-1998
http://members.trilug.org/~redwolfe
Chris Woodbury ccw at wolves.durham.nc.us none

Minutes
Available for our Class:
http://www.terrapinjunction.com
ftp.terrapinjunction.com
mail.terrapinjunction.com

Recommended Books:
RHCE Study Guide, Osborne

Syllabus
1.	Basic hardware knowledge
·	Intel and Intel clone architectures
·	IRQs and IRQ settings for standard serial ports
·	Disk subsystems (IDE, EIDE, SCSI)
·	Disk partitioning

2.	Basic UNIX/Linux knowledge
·	Basic text editor usage
1.	Opening, closing, writing, and abandoning files
2.	Basic text editing

3.	UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy and Structure
·	UNIX/Linux filesystems
·	SCSI, floppy, CD-ROM, and IDE devices
·	Referencing /dev devices
·	ISA and PCI hardware issues
·	Filesystem formating and checking, fdisk, mkfs, fsck
·	Span multiple partitions with root filesystem
·	Mount misc partitions with mount

4.	Basic file operations and manipulation
·	Basics: cp, mv, ls, more, less, cd, pwd, tar, find, etc.
·	Filters: cat, grep, egrep, wc, cat, tail, head, sort, etc.
·	File Name wildcards: *, ?, [ ], etc.

5.	Printing
·	lpq, lprm, lpr
·	adding local and remote printers

6.	UNIX/Linux Shell
·	Basic Shell Programming
·	Piping, I/O and error redirection
·	Script execution and permissions
·	Variables and parameters
·	The inherited environment

7.	Basic security
·	Shadow passwords
·	File permissions
·	Understanding users, groups and umask
·	Suid

8.	UNIX System Administration
·	/etc/skel/... and home directories
·	Daemons
·	Cron
·	Superuser
·	Syslogd and logging
·	Backup and Restore Tasks
·	Control of Network Services and Daemons
·	System crontab
·	Using and managing the system log files
·	Basic system backup and restore operations

9.	Basic TCP/IP Networking
·	IP numbers and classes
·	The network address, broadcast address and subnet mask
·	Tools and commands
1.	ping
2.	ifconfig
3.	netstat
·	Name resolution configuration
1.	/etc/hosts
2.	/etc/resolv.conf
3.	/etc/host.conf
4.	/etc/nsswitch.conf

10.	Familiarity with Standard Networking Services
·	NFS and remote filesystems
·	Sendmail
·	POP, IMAP
·	FTP
·	DNS
·	DHCP
·	SMB
·	httpd
·	YP, Nis
·	Inetd

11. Basic Network Security