[ILUG] Suggestions for Additional Material for Linux Sys Admin Course - LAMP?

[Ian Moroney]

You might want to teach the command line before you teach gui mode...
It's a good way to get the students to use the command line more than
the gui. If they think they can use the gui for everything, they will be
less inclined to listen to the command line module teachings :)
 


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Ian Moroney
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-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of
Cormac McClean
Sent: 11 December 2006 13:46
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] Suggestions for Additional Material for Linux Sys Admin
Course - LAMP?

Hi,

As I have mentioned in previous emails to the list, I teach a course on
Linux System Administration to 3rd Year Engineering students. As a
result of a change in timetables, I find myself with time for additional
material, and I was wondering if the many experts on the list (who
recently proved invaluable in assisting me with a truculent Xen server!)
might have some suggestions in this regard.

Students each have root access via the network to their own Debian
virtual server (and standard GNU/Linux Desktop within the lab).

Here's what I cover in Semester I
Part 1: GNU/Linux Basics
1. Introduction to System Adminitration, Operating Systems and GNU/Linux
(UNIX and F/OSS).
2. Introduction to the GNU/Linux OS and Filesystem hierarchy.
3. GUI-Mode GNU/Linux with KDE.
4. Command-line Linux: command syntax, options, redirection.
5. System monitoring with df, du etc.
6. Shell scripting.

Part 2: System Administration
7. User and Group Administration, password security, password cracking,
scripting.
8. Software Admininstration using APT and from source.
9. Networking and the client-server model: mudnames, NTP. Configuration
files.
10. Samba and SWAT.

Semester II:
Part 2: System Administration (continued) 11. Processes and Daemons.
12. NFS.
13. FTP (ProFTPd).
14. Apache.
15. Network troubleshooting.
16. Logs and swatch.
17. Backups.
18. Computer/Network Security, firewalls, IDS.


I am thinking of including a section on web application development with
PHP/MySQL. Start off installing some existing PHP/MySQL-based
applications (phpBB2, wiki, blogs) and then spend 6 weeks teaching HTML
and PHP where they would build their own web-based app. (Students' 
experience of web development in ther other subjects is using 3rd part
tools such as Dreamweaver - they don't see any html at all. I find that
when they get to their Final Year Projects they want to explore
PHP/MySQL but are starting from scratch).

How useful do you think this would be to a Linux Sys Admin, or are there
other items not covered that should be? Bear in mind that due to network
restrictions I cannot include DNS, Mail Server or Web Proxy except as
theoretical topics, and as much as possible I want the students to have
practical experience of everything we cover.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Your expert advice is, as always,
greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Cormac.

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