Network Solutions

Basic Course

1. What is GNU/Linux
2. Available GNU / Linux Distributions and the differences
3. Basic overview of GNU / Linux Installation
4. GNU / Linux file systems
5. Actual installation of two different flavours of GNU / Linux (Mandrake and Slackware or your choice)
6. Basic GNU / Linux commands and piping command outputs
7. User Management
8. Console Utilities under GNU / Linux
9. X windows configuration and overview

Advance Course

1. Available services on GNU / Linux Network
2. Installing network cards and modules
3. The inetd superserver or other superservers
4. Mail server (qmail Complete)
5. Nameserver : BIND concepts, configuration djbdns : Concepts and configuration
6. Squid : Caching proxy : Basic configuration overview and concepts
7. Apache : Overview/password security/starting and stopping/Virtual hosting overview
8. Basic firewall overview

Customised Course

This is a customized course for a semi-advanced candidate who has a basic exposure to GNU / Linux.

Day 1:

GNU / Linux OS overview.Directory structures and filesystems.Booting Sequence

Day 2:

Installation from local CD drive of at least two different GNU / Linux systems.

Day 3:

NFS Howto.Network installtion of GNU / Linux.Lilo and multiboot control.

Day 4:

X windows.Window Managers.Available Appliation and utilities for end users.(tar,less,more,cat etc.) User controllable files. Different available shells and their control files.

Day 5:

Controlling bootup initialisation.Runlevels and controlling utility startups on various runlevels. User profile control (profile.d, skel etc.)Adding and deleting users/groups. Administration utilities for end users (chmod, chown etc.). Available network utilities under GNU / Linux (nslookup, traceroute etc.).

Day 6:

The inet (or equivalent superserver) daemon. Configuring inetd. Adding services. Configuration file format. Possible catches. Controlling access through inetd (rules based access control). Introduction to squid.

Day 7:

Squid continued.Apache webserver. Setup and configuration. Name based Virtual hosting on apache.Access control methods available on apache.

Day 8:

qmail.Installation from source code.Configuration of qmail. Access control for qmail.

Day 9:

Mailing lists under qmail.

Day 10:

Basic nameserver setup, firewall.

Note: This schedule assumes practice sessions from Day 5 onwards. It is alright to continue practice during the training sessions for the first five days if one feels like it. If required the course period will be extended by a maximum of 3 days.