Bourne Shell Programming

    

Summary:
This hands-on class provides staff who are new UNIX system administrators with an introduction to the fundamental issues, tasks, tools and strategies in administering most versions and variants of the UNIX operating system (including SunOS and Solaris, IBM's AIX, HP-UX, Linux and SCO UNIX). It includes an overview of Bourne and Korn shell programming, valuable in understanding and automating system administration routines.

Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
All users (of any UNIX system) who will be required to perform system administration tasks, such as user administration, filesystem and storage management, backup/restoration, security, basic networking and troubleshooting. These include: full- or part-time UNIX system administrators, workstation and microcomputer users of UNIX, whether standalone or networked and UNIX users - such as department managers and project or team leaders - who perform system administration tasks periodically.

Topics:

• UNIX filesystem organization, administrative files, and commands
• User and process administration
• Storage management, backup and restoration
• Printer and device administration
• UNIX system security
• Scheduling jobs with at and cron
• System startup and shutdown
• The X window system
• Networking overview
• Performance tuning and system troubleshooting
• Shell programming for system administration

Prerequisites:
The students should have familiarity with UNIX commands, directory structure, and a text editor, as presented in UNIX Basics or Introduction to UNIX.

Last Update: May 20, 2012