Class overview :
This comprehensive two-day course aims to equip the novice Solaris/UNIX user with all the skills necessary to navigate the system and make productive use of the tools available, including the Windows system, the vi editor and essential Solaris/UNIX commands. It also forms the necessary foundation for subsequent courses.
Class goals :
A foundation course to get trainees confident in day-to-day Solaris / Unix use. This course provides all the knowledge that applications users will need and forms a good grounding for the power user or administrator who will go on to take other courses
Content of Introduction to Solaris – A Unix / Solaris Foundation
Solaris / UNIX / Linux overview
- What are Solaris, Linux and Unix?
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Basic command examples
- Other versions of Unix
- Future of Unix
- Logistics and support
Getting started
- Logging in and out
- Basic Gnome Window system use
- Keyboard basics
- Files, directories and path names
- Creating and examining files
- Effective use of directories
- Moving, copying and removing files
- Basic system password security
- Online Documentation and the man command
- Common problems
The vi editor
- Invoking vi
- Insert and Append
- Moving around the text
- Deleting text
- Change operators
- Other insert operators
- Searching for text; Search and replace
- Saving and quitting
The Next stage
- Introduction to UNIX shells
- Shell interaction
- Input and Output control using Re-direction and piping
- Shell metacharacters (wild cards)
- The command history mechanism, and command line editing facilities
- The shell quoting mechanism
- Setting up and using command aliases
- Job and Process monitoring and control
- More complex copying and moving
- Protecting files and directories using chmod
- Shell variables and setting up the environment
- Introduction to Solaris utilities
- Halting the workstation
Gnome Window System
- A thorough examination of the major tools available, such as the Panel, File Manager, Text editor and the Help system
- Customising the Workspace and setting basic user preferences
Introduction to networking
- Introduction to network concepts
- Ethernet Overview
- Network basic commands (including logging in to other machines with ssh)
- Network File System (NFS) – overview, benefits and uses
- Overview of Samba file sharing with Microsoft machines
Onze voordelen :
- Type of training: Inter-company, intra-company and individual
- 100% flexible & personalised training : You choose the place, the dates and the training program
- Offer request : Response within 24 hours
- 50% discount for SME’s from Brussels-Capital Region
- Free parking, lunch & drinks
- Free use of our Digital Competence Centre: Manuals, courses, exercises, …
Training-brussels - business training center in Brussels 