Welcome to the next step in studying for the Linux certification exam 102. This tutorial series serves as a comprehensive self-study guide so you can take the exams with confidence. And even if you're not preparing for Linux certification at this time, this series helps you build fundamental skills on Linux systems administration.

In this tutorial (the sixth in a series of nine tutorials on exam 102 topics), Ian Shields introduces you to administrative tasks. By the end of this tutorial, you will know how to manage users and groups, set user profiles and environments, use log files, schedule jobs, back up your data, and maintain the system time.

Proceed through the tutorials in sequence, or choose your topic of interest, from the entire set of Linux certification tutorials on developerWorks.

In this tutorial

• Manage user and group accounts
• Tune user and system environments
• Configure and use system log files to meet administrative and security needs
• Automate system administration tasks by scheduling jobs to run in the future
• Maintain an effective data backup strategy
• Maintain system time

Objectives

This tutorial is organized according to the specific objectives of the LPI exam for this topic. This tutorial can help you study for certification -- or simply build a solid foundation in Linux system administration.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this tutorial, you should have a basic knowledge of Linux. This tutorial builds on content covered in previous tutorials in this LPI series, so you may want to first review the tutorials for exams 101 and 102.

System requirements

You should have a working Linux system on which to practice the commands covered in this tutorial.

Duration

More than 2 hours

Formats

html, pdf

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