Getting Started with Fedora / CentOS

• Introduction to Fedora / CentOS

Managing Simple Partitions and File systems

• Working with directories and files - CRUD
• Moving and Copying files and directories
• Current Working Directory
• Types of Filesystems - EXT2, EXT3 etc

Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

• Getting Hard Drive Information
• Linking files
• Absolute and relative file paths
• Partitioning
• Creating a filesystem
• Labeling a filesystem
• Swap partition
• Log files
• Configuration files
• Inodes
• Mounting CDs, DVDs, USB Media
• Working with file archives
• rsync

System Users

• Creating a new system local user account
• Restricting users
• Security policies
• System Administrator (Operating as a root user)

Permissions and Attributes

• Logging in
• Changing password
• Users, groups and permissions

Access Control Lists ( ACL )

• Access Control Lists and its importance
• Basic commands - getfacl, setfacl

Fedora / CentOS package management

• YUM/DNF package managers
• RPM package managers
• Installing packages

Process Management

• Process Lifecycle
• Listing running processes
• Listing process tree
• Killing a process
• Nice values
• Suspending a process
• Moving them to background/foreground
• Signals
• Cronning scripts
• Exit code
• Load averages
• Daemons and Services

System Logs

• System logs files
• Rotate log files

Scheduling tasks

• Learn about task scheduling
• Scheduling tasks using Anacron and Cron

Network Management

• Network interfaces
• DNS lookups
• ping
• netstat
• SSH
  • SSH port forwarding
  • Exporting GUI on ssh
• screen
• scp

Shell Scripting

• I/O Redirection
• Filter commands - grep, sed, awk, wc, sort, head, tail etc
• Commonly used shell commands - date, find, locate, gzip, tar
• Variables
• Environment variables
• Aliases
• Regular Expressions

X Applications

• Some useful applications
  • gedit
  • nautilus
  • terminator
  • process monitor