Meeting Schedule

Tuesdays would continue to be good nights from 7-9 pm. I would propose that we meet every Tuesday, alternating between the Durham and Raleigh locations if we have enough people that want to try for the RHCT or RHCE. If we have two groups, meeting one would correspond with both locations.

I borrowed heavily from the syllabus posted by Jim Thompson on May 29, 2002.

Locations

Durham: Durham Tech

Raleigh: Eclectic Lan

Meeting 1

General introduction/planning stuff - everyone meets and agrees on a text. Conscripting of "volunteers" to lead each session.

Meeting 2

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

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

Alternate Installation Methods [LAB 1]

• Kickstart
• Network installs
• Typical install "gotchas"

Meeting 5

Kernel Services and Configuration

• Compiling and installing
• Kernel source
• Modules

Meeting 6

Standard Networking Services [LAB 2]

• Apache
• FTP
• Samba
• Mail
• Print
• DHCP
• xntp/rdate
• SSH
• Bind

Meeting 7

X Window System

• X-server/X-clients
• Configuration scripts
• startup
• Remote-X
• Troubleshooting and common problems

Meeting 8

User and Host Security, Routers, Firewalls, and Troubleshooting [LAB3]

• PAM
• NIS
• Squid
• Syslog
• COPS
• Ipchains, iptables, ipaliasing, TCPWrappers
• NFS