Topic List for Midterm

Here are some topics that we've covered. This list may not be all-inclusive.

• Essential duties of a sysadmin
• Basic Linux commands
  • cd, pwd, ls, mkdir, cp, mv, rm, sort, grep, diff, chmod, chown, ps, kill, signals, etc.
• Shell scripts
  • #!, if, while, condition, read, echo, $*
• cron
  • format
  • modifying
• booting
  • service command
• shutdown
• software installation
  • system
  • commands, dependencies
• backups
  • archive
  • incremental
  • tradeoffs
• storage
  • SCSI/IDE/SATA/USB, RAID, LVM, mount, /etc/fstab, fsck
• printing
• Perl

You may bring, to the midterm, a 8.5×11″ crib sheet that has only information related to shell scripting.