Novell Certified Linux Professional Study Guide

, by Dulaney, Emmett

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ISBN: 9780672327193 | 0672327198
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/28/2004

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The authoritative study guide to prepare for and pass the exam required to become a Novell Certified Linux Professional.

The NCLP Certification Process and Planning Your Approach

(12)

The Exam Situation

(1)

Exam-Taking Basics

(1)

Exam-Handling Strategies

(1)

Planning Your Approach

(9)

Understanding SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

(18)

Introducing Linux

(1)

Introducing SLES 9

(1)

Installing SLES

(4)

Drivers and Interfaces

(1)

The Linux Desktop

(9)

Working with KDE

(6)

Working with Other Desktops

(2)

Working with Processes

(1)

Summary

(1)

Preliminary GNU and Unix Commands

(102)

Working at the Command Line

(16)

Command-Line Interaction

(3)

Connecting Commands

(1)

Wildcards

(1)

The Path Statement and Other Variables

(2)

Common Variables

(4)

Quoting

(2)

Command History

(1)

Command Aliasing

(1)

Other Features and Notes

(1)

Processing Text

(16)

nl, head, and tail

(2)

cut, paste, and join

(2)

Paste

(1)

Join

(2)

Sort, Count, Format, and Translate

(5)

Other Useful Utilities

(1)

Basic File Management

(6)

Working with cd and pwd

(1)

Absolute and Relative Addressing

(2)

Working with Is

(2)

Applying a touch

(1)

Copying and Moving

(8)

(3)

(2)

(1)

Removing Files and Directories

(1)

Making Directories

(1)

Standard Output and Input

(4)

tee for Two

(1)

xargs

(1)

Working with Processes

(14)

What Is a Process

(1)

Working with ps

(6)

Working with pstree and top

(1)

Ending a Process

(3)

Background and Foreground

(2)

Changing Priorities

(1)

nice

(1)

renice

(1)

Working with grep and sed

(19)

The grep Family

(8)

sed

106

(10)

Other Useful Utilities

116

(1)

Working with vi

116

(12)

Starting vi

117

(1)

Navigation

118

(1)

Changing Text

119

(1)

Saving Files

120

(2)

Inserting and Deleting

122

(1)

Navigating Screens

123

(1)

Searching for Text

124

(1)

Copying Text

125

(1)

Other Operations

126

(2)

Lab Exercise 3-1: Starting and Stopping a Service

128

(1)

Summary

129

(1)

Metacharacter Summary

129

(1)

Command Summary

130

(3)

Working with Files

133

(24)

Working with File Permissions and Ownership

133

(10)

Standard Permissions

134

(3)

Changing Values

137

(2)

Access Control Lists

139

(2)

Special Permissions

141

(2)

Working with Links

143

(6)

Hard Links

144

(2)

Symbolic Links

146

(3)

Finding System Files

149

(5)

Working with Quotas

154

(1)

Summary

155

(1)

Command Summary

156

(1)

Basic Linux Administration

157

(36)

Creating and Managing Users

158

(10)

Creating User Accounts

161

(4)

Managing User Accounts

165

(2)

Removing Users

167

(1)

Working with Groups

168

(4)

Creating a New Group

169

(1)

Picking a Group

170

(1)

Modifying Groups

171

(1)

Working with PAM

172

(2)

Configuring System Logs

174

(7)

The Log Daemon

175

(3)

Files to Know

178

(3)

Maintaining Effective Backups

181

(4)

Utilities to Know

183

(1)

184

(1)

Related Utilities

185

(1)

Adding a Mirror

185

(2)

Working with the Time

187

(2)

Working with NTP

187

(2)

Lab Exercise 5-1: Manually Creating a New User

189

(1)

Summary

190

(1)

Command Summary

190

(3)

Shells, Scripting, Programming, and Compiling

193

(28)

Sprucing Up a Basic Script

194

(3)

Items to Keep in Mind

196

(1)

Accepting Input

197

(3)

Representing the Variables

199

(1)

The Shift Command

199

(1)

Adding Logic

200

(9)

Using [

202

(1)

Using If-Then Mentality

203

(1)

Using exit

204

(2)

Two If-Then Variations

206

(2)

Conditional Execution

208

(1)

Looping Around

209

(2)

Using while

209

(1)

Using until

210

(1)

Using for

211

(1)

Revisiting Input

211

(1)

Working with case

212

(3)

A Mild exit

214

(1)

Working with Numbers

215

(2)

Lab Exercise 6-1: Finding and Killing the Process That Is Your Shell

217

(1)

Lab Exercise 6-2: Create a Script to Count the Number of Running Processes

218

(1)

Summary

219

(1)

Command Summary

219

(2)

Boot, Initialization, Shutdown, and Runlevels

221

(18)

Understanding Runlevels

222

(1)

Changing Runlevels

223

(2)

The Inittab File

225

(4)

Enter LILO

229

(2)

Enter GRUB

231

(2)

Related Boot Files and Utilities

233

(2)

Booting from Start to Finish

235

(1)

Enter the User

236

(1)

Summary

237

(1)

Command Summary

237

(2)

Working with Filesystems

239

(32)

Laying Out the Filesystem

239

(14)

The Standard Disk Layout

239

(11)

The Hard Disk Layout

250

(3)

Working with Hard Disks

253

(5)

Creating Partitions

255

(2)

Creating Filesystems

257

(1)

Maintaining Filesystem Integrity

258

(6)

Mounting and Unmounting

264

(2)

Hard Disks and YaST

266

(3)

Summary

269

(1)

Command Summary

269

(2)

Managing Printing

271

(28)

Printing a File

271

(3)

Moving Up to CUPS

274

(1)

Formatting a File

275

(1)

Installing a Printer

275

(4)

Basic Configuration Files

279

(14)

Printing Utilities

293

(4)

Summary

297

(1)

Command Summary

297

(2)

Administrative Tasks Revisited

299

(44)

Installing Software

300

(5)

Shared Libraries

305

(1)

Package Management with Red Hat

306

(8)

Installing and Removing Software Using RPM

307

(1)

Verifying an RPM

308

(1)

Querying a Package

308

(2)

Building RPMs

310

(3)

Building a Package

313

(1)

Understanding the Linux Kernel

314

(8)

Kernel Modules

315

(7)

Kernel Construction

322

(4)

Obtaining the Kernel Sources Code

323

(2)

Building the Kernel

325

(1)

Working with mail

326

(2)

Monitoring the System

328

(4)

Performing Administrative Security Tasks

332

(7)

Working with iptables

335

(1)

Host Security

335

(1)

User-Level Security

336

(3)

Adding Hardware

339

(1)

Lab Exercise 10-1: Evaluating and Correcting a Security Risk

340

(1)

Summary

341

(1)

Command Summary

341

(2)

Networking Fundamentals

343

(66)

TCP/IP Background

344

(8)

The Four Layers of TCP/IP

345

(1)

Primary Protocols

346

(5)

Address Resolution Protocol

351

(1)

Protocols and Ports

351

(1)

TCP/IP Host Configuration

352

(3)

IP Address

353

(1)

Subnet Mask

353

(1)

Default Gateway

354

(1)

Supplying Values

355

(1)

Other TCP/IP Configuration

355

(17)

Configuring Routes

372

(2)

Configuring Networking Services

374

(11)

The /etc/services File

375

(9)

Network Access

384

(1)

Working with LDAP

385

(1)

Working with Apache

385

(2)

Working with NFS, smb, and nmb

387

(3)

NFS

387

(1)

NIS

388

(1)

SMB

388

(2)

NMB

390

(1)

Working with DNS

390

(10)

Using the hosts Files

391

(2)

Moving Up to DNS

393

(5)

Utilities to Use with DNS

398

(2)

Working with Open SSH

400

(1)

Working with the IP Tool

401

(3)

Lab Exercise 11-1: Verifying Your Host Information

404

(1)

Lab Exercise 11-2: Create an Entry in the Hosts File

405

(1)

Lab Exercise 11-3: Identifying Running Network Services

406

(1)

Summary

407

(1)

Command Summary

407

(2)

Working with YaST

409

(18)

Introducing YaST

409

(3)

Working with Users

412

(4)

Working with Software

416

(2)

Working with Hardware

418

(1)

Working with Networks

419

(2)

Working with YOU

421

(2)

Working with Remote Administration

423

(1)

Working with Security Settings

424

(2)

Summary

426

(1)

Other Items to Know

427

(30)

Using Local Documentation

428

(10)

The man Utility

428

(4)

Using-help

432

(1)

Getting Info

433

(2)

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Novell Certified Linux Professional Study Guide

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials