Intro and opening thoughts

This page is dynamic. That is, it will change to accommodate our needs. So don't expect this to be 100% accurate... until the whole thing is over.

New Schedule Syllabus

Meeting Schedule

Wednesdays would be good nights for the classes from 8-10 pm. We will meet on alternate weeks: we will have a class at HAHT one week, followed by a "chat-class" with questions and answers on #trilug-irc the other week, The current week's "presentation" will be put up on a website the Monday previous to HAHT's class. This way, everybody has a week-end to type / a few days to read through the syllabus. We expect this to help speed up the information input into our brain block devices.

For dinner accommodations, there are a few options. Food can be had at the Celebration @ Six Fork strip mall. There's a Wendy's near the corner of Newton and Six Forks. If you plan to eat beforehand, please allow enough time to show up promptly for the meeting - we'll be starting right at 8pm.

Feb. 05, 2003

Meeting 1: kick-off meeting

At EclecticLAN - by all of us.

General introduction/planning stuff - everyone meets and agrees on a text. Conscripting of "volunteers" to lead each session.

Feb. 12, 2003

Feb. 19. 2003

Meeting 2: Hardware and Installation

At HAHT - by Jason Tower

• Hardware Compatibility
• CPU and SMP Support
• New Hardware Detection
• Plug and Play
• Serial and Parallel Ports
• Block and Other Devices
• Disk Addressing and Partitioning (fdisk, repartition, LVM, RAID)
• Peripheral Devices and their Configuration
• The Boot Process
• The Red Hat Installer: Anaconda
• Performing and Validating the Installation
• Laptops and Multiboot Systems
• Serial Console Installation
• The LILO Boot Prompt
• Configuring a Red Hat Linux Network Installation Server
• Using kickstart to Automate Installation
• Software RAID Configuration

Presentation: [HTML]

Meeting Notes

Feb. 26, 2003

Mar. 5, 2003

Mar. 12, 2003

Mar. 19, 2003

Meeting 3: Configuration and Administration

At HAHT - by Jeremy Portzer

• Reconfiguring Installed Options
• Networking, Sound and User Authorization configuration
• File Systems and /etc/fstab
• RPM Package Manager
• Printing
• Virtual Consoles
• Administering User Accounts and Groups
• cron and anacron
• locate and tmpwatch
• System Logging
• GUI Administration Tools
• The Update Agent
• Documentation and Help Sources

Presentation: [OpenOffice] [HTML]

Mar. 26, 2003

Apr. 2, 2003

Meeting 4: Standard Networking Services [1/2]

At HAHT - by Lisa Lorenzin

• TCP/IP Fundamentals
• Samba
• HTTP/Apache
• Basic FTP

Presentation: [HTML]

Apr. 9, 2003

Apr. 16, 2003

Meeting 5: Standard Networking Services [2/2]

At HAHT - by Mike Broome

• DHCP
• Squid Proxy Server
• Email Delivery and Protocols
• Other Red Hat Linux Network Services

Presentation: [HTML]

Apr. 23, 2003

Apr. 30, 2003

Meeting 6: Standard Networking Services [3/2] ;)

At HAHT - by Jon Carnes

• BIND
• NIS
• NFS
• Automount

Presentation: [ASCII]

May 7, 2003

May 14, 2003

At Two Guys in Raleigh -- drinking Jon's beer and talking about the kernel

May 21, 2003

Meeting 7: Kernel Services and Configuration

At HAHT - by Jeremy Portzer

• The /proc filesystem
• /proc/sys configuration with sysctl
• The Linux Quota System
• Understanding /etc/inittab
• Managing System V Initialization Scripts
• Software RAID Configuration
• Configuring, Compiling and Installing the Linux Kernel
• The LILO Map Installer

Presentation: [OpenOffice] [HTML]

May 28, 2003

June 4, 2003

Meeting 8: X Window System

At HAHT - by Scott Lundgren

• The X Server
• X Clients/Window Managers
• The X Font Server
• Display Managers
• XFree86 Startup
• The Gnome and KDE Environments
• Remote Display of X Applications
• X Security

Presentation: [ASCII]

Jun. 11, 2003

Jun. 18, 2003

Meeting 9: User and Host Security

At HAHT - by Joseph Tate

• Security Concepts
• Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• The xinetd Super-Server and tcp_wrappers
• ssh: secure shell, telnet and remote copy

Presentation: [ASCII]

Jun. 25, 2003

Jul. 2, 2003

Meeting 10: Routers, Firewalls, Clusters and Troubleshooting

At First Flight Venture Center in RTP - by Anonymous Coward

• Static and Dynamic Routes
• Linux as a Router and Firewall
• ipchains (??? iptables???) and Firewall Rules
• IP Masquerading
• Troubleshooting
• Rescue Environment Utilities

Presentation: discussion of sample iptables script

Jul. 9, 2003