Installing and booting the O.S |
Selecting and booting the installation media
The boot process
Basic disk partitioning
Sharing disks between O.S.s
Swap area
Boot loaders |
Basic network administration |
Basic network configuration
Network interface aliasing
Manipulating routes
inetd configuration: tcpwrappers |
Automating administrative tasks |
Need for automating repetitive system administration tasks
Using shell scripts to automate administrative tasks
Monitoring system: logs
Schedulling the execution of tasks. the cron and at utilities
Starting and stopping system services.
Configuring startup services. Initialization files and boot scripts |
Managing packet filtering software |
Need for packet filtering. Different approaches
solaris ipf basics
*BSD pf basics
linux iptables basics
Packet filtering and NAT |