SAIR Linux and GNU Certification

Tobin Maginnis is Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Mississippi. He has used free-to-use open source software to teach many systems courses, including three levels of operating systems and computer networking courses over the last 20 years. Since 1992, he has been President of Sair Linux and GNU, Inc.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ; KNOWLEDGE MATRIX; Theory of Operation; Base Systems; Shells and Commands; System Utilities; Applications; Troubleshooting; LABS AND EXERCISES; Configure a Network Card Using Ifconfig; Configuring PPP Scripts; Configure Samba to Share a Printer and Directory; Mounting a Remote File System Manually and with /etc/fstab; Using ftp; Running X Window Applications on Remote Systems; Port Forwarding Using ssh; Apache; Use X-Win32 to Start the X Window System; IP Masquerading; Add a Port Label to /etc/services and Add a Service to inetd; Manually Add an Address to the ARP Table; Set Up and Test netperf and wire-test; Modify sendmail Configuration to Limit Incoming and Outgoing Mail to 10MB; Using tar to Archive a Remote File or Directory Structure; Adding PPP and Setting-Up a Shotgun PPP Connection; Setting Up a Bonded Ethernet Device; Compiling and Configuring Majordomo; Setting Up a DHCP Server; Setting Up a Serial Network Using SLIP; Checking Out a File Using CVS; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS; Practice Questions; Answers; Glossary; Index.