Unix System Administration: Essential Operations
- Recommended Duration:
- 5 Days
- Version
- SUN Solaris (V7-V10), IBM AIX V4.3, 5L (V5.1 and V5.2), HP-UX (V11 and V11i), and SGI IRIX V6.5, Linux (Red Hat * SuSe)
- Benefits
- Upon completion of this course, a system manager should be able to install, update, and boot the Unix operating system; set up user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system for performance and do basic setup of network software and capabilities.
- Audience
- Developers, Programmers, and System Administrators needing to enhance their Unix skills.
- Prerequisites
- This is an advanced Unix course. Participants must have Unix experience, or have completed the "Fundamentals of Unix: Basics" course (or equivalent).
- Major Topics
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- User Level Tape Operations
- tar utility syntax
- tar commands for product access
- Using compression and uncompression commands
- Program Development under Unix
- Source code control with sccs
- cc command syntax
- Using lint to verify program syntax
- Including diagnostics in source code
- Loader command syntax (cc and ld)
- Creating object libraries with the ar utility
- Building programs with the make utility
- Run-time debugging with dbx
- Exercises
- There are numerous hands-on machine exercises. All five Unix platforms will be available for lab exercises.