We, the SCALE Training Team, are contemplating holding a training track next year that has a tentative title of "Linux System Administration for Windows Users" - we see it as providing the necessary basic survival skills for that Windows admin who has a couple of internally-facing Linux boxes thrown to him for management.
Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
- samba (client & server) - NFS (server) - All about SSH - user & group administration - software installation and patching
? - basics of BIND
Your suggestions?
Thanks!
It sounds like this would be relevant to any type of new admin, whether they had windows backgrounds or not. Would this be a class, or a standard session track that one could come in and out of through out the weekend?
I assume this would be in addition to the existing desktop training class?
On 3/15/13 3:20 PM, Orv Beach wrote:
We, the SCALE Training Team, are contemplating holding a training track next year that has a tentative title of "Linux System Administration for Windows Users" - we see it as providing the necessary basic survival skills for that Windows admin who has a couple of internally-facing Linux boxes thrown to him for management.
Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
- samba (client & server)
- NFS (server)
- All about SSH
- user & group administration
- software installation and patching
? - basics of BIND
Your suggestions?
Thanks!
-- Orv
Orv Beach SCALE Training Chair orv@socallinuxexpo.org mailto:orv@socallinuxexpo.org
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Based on feedback during the desktop class, this would be the training class for next year. I can't see us running two of them (space & other resource restrictions)
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch ilan@socallinuxexpo.orgwrote:
It sounds like this would be relevant to any type of new admin, whether they had windows backgrounds or not. Would this be a class, or a standard session track that one could come in and out of through out the weekend?
I assume this would be in addition to the existing desktop training class?
On 3/15/13 3:20 PM, Orv Beach wrote:
We, the SCALE Training Team, are contemplating holding a training track next year that has a tentative title of "Linux System Administration for Windows Users" - we see it as providing the necessary basic survival skills for that Windows admin who has a couple of internally-facing Linux boxes thrown to him for management.
Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
- samba (client & server)
- NFS (server)
- All about SSH
- user & group administration
- software installation and patching
? - basics of BIND
Your suggestions?
Thanks!
-- Orv
Orv Beach SCALE Training Chair orv@socallinuxexpo.org mailto:orv@socallinuxexpo.org
Scale-planning mailing list Scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org https://lists.linuxfests.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scale-planning
-- Ilan Rabinovitch Conference Chair Southern California Linux Expo 877-831-2569x110 Phone 818-442-1865 Mobile ilan@socallinuxexpo.org E-MAIL
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I really like the idea. Some additional suggestions that I think should at least be covered at a high level ... as they are foreign concepts if coming from a Windows only world:
* Obvious commands for help, but not if you're noob: info info &/or man man ... and other basics of bash * Why and how sudo & sudo su * Overview of must know (they exist) utilities: man, top, nano, w, tar, ps, df/du, find, grep, sed/awk, etc. * Common gotchas: How to close man, vi, etc, and other weird linux keystrokes. How to use *fg* if you hit CTRL-Z to "undo" then shell program seemingly exits. (common in nano/vi). * File systems & fstab overview PLUS mounting local partitions / network drives (sshfs or gvfs) * Basics of backups + recovery (both server / desktop as strategies might differ).
Take what you like, leave what you don't, but hope it helps!
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch ilan@socallinuxexpo.orgwrote:
It sounds like this would be relevant to any type of new admin, whether they had windows backgrounds or not. Would this be a class, or a standard session track that one could come in and out of through out the weekend?
I assume this would be in addition to the existing desktop training class?
On 3/15/13 3:20 PM, Orv Beach wrote:
We, the SCALE Training Team, are contemplating holding a training track next year that has a tentative title of "Linux System Administration for Windows Users" - we see it as providing the necessary basic survival skills for that Windows admin who has a couple of internally-facing Linux boxes thrown to him for management.
Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
- samba (client & server)
- NFS (server)
- All about SSH
- user & group administration
- software installation and patching
? - basics of BIND
Your suggestions?
Thanks!
-- Orv
Orv Beach SCALE Training Chair orv@socallinuxexpo.org mailto:orv@socallinuxexpo.org
Scale-planning mailing list Scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org https://lists.linuxfests.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scale-planning
-- Ilan Rabinovitch Conference Chair Southern California Linux Expo 877-831-2569x110 Phone 818-442-1865 Mobile ilan@socallinuxexpo.org E-MAIL
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Linux Command Line? On Mar 15, 2013 3:21 PM, "Orv Beach" orv.beach@gmail.com wrote:
We, the SCALE Training Team, are contemplating holding a training track next year that has a tentative title of "Linux System Administration for Windows Users" - we see it as providing the necessary basic survival skills for that Windows admin who has a couple of internally-facing Linux boxes thrown to him for management.
Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
- samba (client & server)
- NFS (server)
- All about SSH
- user & group administration
- software installation and patching
? - basics of BIND
Your suggestions?
Thanks!
-- Orv
Orv Beach SCALE Training Chair orv@socallinuxexpo.org
Scale-planning mailing list Scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org https://lists.linuxfests.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scale-planning
But of course!
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin < atsaloli.tech@gmail.com> wrote:
Linux Command Line? On Mar 15, 2013 3:21 PM, "Orv Beach" orv.beach@gmail.com wrote:
We, the SCALE Training Team, are contemplating holding a training track next year that has a tentative title of "Linux System Administration for Windows Users" - we see it as providing the necessary basic survival skills for that Windows admin who has a couple of internally-facing Linux boxes thrown to him for management.
Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
- samba (client & server)
- NFS (server)
- All about SSH
- user & group administration
- software installation and patching
? - basics of BIND
Your suggestions?
Thanks!
-- Orv
Orv Beach SCALE Training Chair orv@socallinuxexpo.org
Scale-planning mailing list Scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org https://lists.linuxfests.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scale-planning
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begin Orv Beach quotation of Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:55:48PM -0700:
Looking for suggestions for content. We already have:
- samba (client & server)
- NFS (server)
- All about SSH
- user & group administration
- software installation and patching
? - basics of BIND
Your suggestions?
A lot of the new Linux admins may also be web designers and content people who are starting with running a web site on a VPS, excuse me, "in the cloud" if you want today's marketese for it. So maybe "for Windows users" is making it a little narrow--a lot of the non-Linux web people no more Windows-aware than I am.
Samba -- is that still a thing? (I know it is, but it seems like more and more places are using sharing services such as Dropbox and Basecamp instead of network drives.)
I would suggest something on "system explorastration" -- figuring out what's running on the box and how to turn it off if necessary. Package manager and nmap for sure, and at least enough git to follow projects you're interested in using and keep track of your notes and scripts. Also, how to tell if your system has systemd, upstart, or old-school init, and where to go for more information on controlling them (probably can't cover all three in one short class.)
On Mar 15, 2013 4:19 PM, "Don Marti" dmarti@zgp.org wrote:
begin Orv Beach quotation of Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:55:48PM -0700:
Looking for suggestions for content.
an exercise on file permissions (and user) mapping, which ruins the lives of many a heterogeneous admin.
...lori
KDE vs GNOME vs WindowManager and XWindows.
Peripheral Hardware methods ------------------------------------- dmesg lsusb hdparms ...more...
Printing. CUPS, lpr, drivers from manufacturers. Why? In the early days, Linux was used as the printer server for all Windows houses.
Backups: Burning CD/DVD, thumb drives, tape drives
Disk space: df, du, etc
SECURITY =================================
VNC via ssh tunnel with prepackaged ssvnc and the like. VPN, SSL, CA command, key-gen, key chain, RSA, DSA, AES
Daemons/Services ----------------------------- chroot ssh chroot bind No root userid apache non root userid, fastcgi, suexec, suphp, more... To disable telnetd and ftpd, in favor of scp/sftp.
Scripting, shell choices (best per application)
Routing Commands ------------------------- ip or obsolete ifconfig route -nr and other troubleshooting options. firewalls ifp, iptables, GUIs (Firestarter, ...)
BGP
Peter
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