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AD-506 · Linux Lab/Official Syllabus

Linux Lab (AD-506) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Overview of Unix/Linux

  • Concepts, Unix/Linux Installation Process, Hardware requirements for Unix/Linux
  • Advantages of Unix/Linux, Reasons for Popularity and Success of Linux/Unix Operating System
  • Features of Linux/Unix Operating System, Kernel, Kernel Functions
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Unit 2

The Shell Basic Commands, Shell Programming

  • Shell Variables, Branching Control Structures, Loop-Control Structure, Continue and break Statements, Sleep Command, Debugging Script
  • Use of Linux as webserver, file server, directory server, application server, DNS server, SMTP server, Firewall, Proxy server
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Unit 3

File System

  • Definition of File System, Defining Geometry, Disk Controller, Solaris File System, Disk Based File Systems, Network-Based File Systems, Virtual File systems, UFS File System
  • The Boot Block, The Super Block, The Inode, Tuning File System, Repairing File System
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Unit 4

Process Control

  • Viewing a Process, Command to display Process, Process Attributes, Process States, Process Fields, PS Commands options, PGREP, PRSTAT, CDE Process Manager
  • Scheduling Process, Scheduling Priorities, Changing the Priority of a time-sharing process, Killing Process
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Unit 5

System Security

  • Physical Security, Controlling System Access, Restricted Shells Controlling File Access, File Access Commands, Access Control List(ACLs), Setting ACL Entries, Modifying ACL entries on a file, Deleting ACL entries on a file
  • Restricting FTP, Securing Super User Access, Restricting Root Access, Monitoring super user Access, TCP Wrappers
  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol: Introduction, DHCP Leased Time, DHCP Scopes, DHCP IP Address, Allocation Types, Planning DHCP Deployment, DHCP Configuration files, Automatic Startup of DHCP Server, Configuration of DHCP Clients, Manually Configuring the DHCP
  • Case Study: Installation of Linux, Customization of Linux, Installation of SAMBA, APACHE, TOMCAT, Send MAIL, Postfix, Implementation of DNS, LDAP services, Firewall, Proxy server

Laboratory Experiments

  • To Study basic & User status Unix/Linux Commands.
  • Study & use of commands for performing arithmetic operations with Unix/Linux.
  • Create a file called wlcc.txt with some lines and display how many lines, words andcharacters are present in that file.
  • Append ten more simple lines to the wlcc.txt file created above and split theappended file into 3 parts. What will be the names of these split files? Display thecontents of each of these files. How many lines will be there on the last file?
  • Given two files each of which contains names of students. Create a program todisplay only those names that are found on both the files.
  • Create a program to find out the inode number of any desired file.
  • Study & use of the Command for changing file permissions.
  • Write a pipeline of commands, which displays on the monitor as well as saves theinformation about the number of users using the system at present on a file called usere.ux.
  • Execute shell commands through vi editor.
  • Installation, Configuration & Customizations of Unix/Linux.
  • Write a shell script that accepts any number of arguments and prints them in the reverseorder.
  • Write a shell script to find the smallest of three numbers that are read from the keyboard.
  • Write a shell script that reports the logging in of a specified user within one minute afterhe/she logs in. The script automatically terminates if the specified user does not login duringa specified period of time.
  • Installation of SAMBA, APACHE, TOMCAT.
  • Implementation of DNS, LDAP services,
  • Study & installation of Firewall & Proxy server

Reference Books

  • Introduction to Unix &Shell — Venkatesh Murthy — Pearson Edu
  • Unix &Shell Programming — Forouzan — Cengage Learning
  • Unix Concept & Application — Sumitab Das — TMH
  • Beginners Guide to Unix — Gopalan, Shivaselvan — PHI Learning
  • Linux Programming Tools Unveil`ed — Venkateshwavle — BS Publication
  • Linux Complete Reference — Richard Peterson — TMH
  • Unix Complete Reference — Richard Peterson — TMH
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