LPI101

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
3. Navigating the Filesystem
4. Displaying Directory Contents
5. Determining Disk Usage
6. File Ownership
7. Default Group Ownership
8. File and Directory Permissions
9. File Creation Permissions
10. Changing File Permissions
11. SUID and SGID on files
12. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
13. User Private Group Scheme

Lab Tasks

1. Files and Directories
2. Disk and Filesystem Usage
3. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Directory Manipulation
3. File Manipulation
4. Deleting and Creating Files
5. Physical Unix File Structure
6. Filesystem Links
7. File Extensions and Content
8. Displaying Files
9. Previewing Files
10. Displaying Binary Files
11. Searching the Filesystem
12. Alternate Search Method
13. Shared Libraries

Lab Tasks

1. File and Directory Manipulation Commands
2. File Examination & Search Commands

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Archives with tar
3. Archives with cpio
4. The gzip Compression Utility
5. The bzip2 Compression Utility
6. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format

Lab Tasks

1. Archiving and Compression
2. Using tar and cpio for Backups

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Producing File Statistics
3. Searching Inside Files
4. The Streaming Editor
5. Text Processing with awk
6. Replacing Text Characters
7. Text Sorting
8. Duplicate Removal Utility
9. Extracting Columns of Text
10. Merging Multiple Files

Lab Tasks

1. Text Processing

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Role of Command Shell
3. Shells
4. Identifying the Shell
5. Changing the Shell
6. sh: Prompts
7. bash: Bourne Again Shell
8. bash: Command Editing
9. bash: Command Completion
10. Shell/Environment Variables
11. Key Environment Variables

Lab Tasks

1. Linux Shells
2. Shell Variables
3. Bash History
4. Aliases

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. File Redirection
3. Piping Commands Together
4. Filename Matching
5. File Globbing and Wildcard Patterns
6. Brace Expansion
7. General Quoting Rules
8. Nesting Commands
9. Multiple and Multi-line Commands

Lab Tasks

1. Connecting Commands
2. Wildcard File Matching
3. Shell Meta-Characters
4. Command Substitution

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Regular Expression Overview
3. Regular Expressions
4. RE Character Classes
5. RE Quantifiers
6. RE Parenthesis

Lab Tasks

1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
2. Extended Regular Expressions
3. Using Regular Expressions With sed

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Text Editing
3. vi and Vim
4. Basic vi
5. Learning vi
6. Intermediate vi

Lab Tasks

1. Text Editing with Vim

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. What is a Process?
3. Process Creation
4. Process States
5. Viewing Processes
6. Signals
7. Tools to Send Signals
8. Job Control Basics
9. Jobs

Lab Tasks

1. Job Control Basics
2. Process Management and Job Control Basics

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Managing Software
3. Working With RPMs
4. Querying and Verifying with RPM
5. Installing Debian Packages
6. Querying and Verifying with dpkg
7. The alien Package Conversion Tool
8. Intro to Package Management
9. Using the YUM command
10. Configuring YUM
11. The dselect & APT Frontends to dpkg
12. Aptitude
13. Configuring APT
14. Compiling/Installing from Source
15. Installing Source RPM Packages

Lab Tasks

1. Querying the RPM Database
2. Installing Software via RPM & Source and Rebuilding SRPMs

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Partition Considerations
3. Partition Planning
4. Partition Tables
5. File System Creation
6. Filesystem Support
7. UNIX/Linux Filesystem Features
8. Swap
9. Filesystem Considerations
10. Journaled Filesystems
11. Filesystem Maintenance
12. Mounting Filesystems
13. NFS
14. SMB
15. Filesystem Table
16. Configuring Disk Quotas
17. Setting Quotas
18. Viewing and Monitoring Quotas

Lab Tasks

1. Hot Adding Swap
2. Accessing NFS Shares
3. Setting User Quotas

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Booting Linux on PCs
3. LILO Options
4. GRUB Configuration
5. Kernel Boot Parameters
6. /sbin/init
7. System Init Styles
8. Linux Runlevels
9. /etc/inittab
10. /etc/init.d/*
11. /etc/rc.sysinit
12. SUSE /etc/init.d/boot
13. Ubuntu /etc/event.d/rcS
14. /etc/init.d/ and rc#.d/
15. rc
16. Shutdown and Reboot

Lab Tasks

1. Boot Process
2. GRUB Command Line
3. Basic GRUB Security

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Linux Device Files
3. Detecting New Hardware Manually
4. Configuring New Hardware with Kudzu
5. Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
6. PC System Hardware
7. USB Devices
8. USB Configuration
9. Configuring Kernel Modules
10. Kernel Modules
11. Handling Module Dependencies
12. Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
13. Kernel Hardware Info - /sys/
14. /sys/ Structure

Lab Tasks

1. PC Hardware and Linux