LINUX Training

During the last week of August (31st August to 4th September) the
Department of Computing Science, UWI, will be running a certificate
course Introduction to Unix and Linux in the evenings from 6pm to
9pm in the UWI CS Lab. Anyone can attend this course.

Please forward this email to anyone you think may benefit.

The course will be highly practical and hands-on, there will be no
lectures and no theory. The course will run over one week with a
session every evening of the week that will give the audience an
introduction to Unix and Linux and which will allow the attendee
to start to make use of Linux, improve their knowledge, or just
find out more about how it works and how to best make use of it.
Topics covered are included below.

The cost for this course will be $J6,000.

However, if you can recruit someone else to the course and they pay
their $J6,000 fee, you will receive a J$1,000 discount. You will
receive a J$1,000 discount for every person you can recruit. If you
recruit two people, the course will cost you $J4,000. If you can
recruit 6 other people, your fee will be $J0. The people you recruit
can also recruit other people and the same discount scheme outlined
above will apply to them as well.

If you are interested, please email Dr Huw Evans
(jameshuwevans@yahoo.co.uk)
to reserve your place on the course. You should ask anyone you have
recruited to email me to reserve their place on the course and to let me
know you recruited them so that you can receive your discount.

Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested.
Anyone can attend this course.

Course Content

The Unix Approach and Getting Access

- Logging into (and out of) UNIX systems
- Changing your password
- General format of UNIX commands

The Most Common Unix Commands

- Introduction to using
cd, ls, cat, cp, mv, rm, chmod, pwd, grep, echo, man, ln, cut,
ps, find

The Unix Filesystem

- The UNIX filesystem
- Typical UNIX directory structure
- Directory and file handling commands
- Using Quotes
- File and directory permissions
- The superuser root

Using Files

- Inspecting file content
- Finding files
- Finding text in files
- Sorting files
- File compression

Shells, Processes, Pipes and Redirection

- Unix shell
- Processes
- Pipes
- Redirecting input and output
- Controlling processes associated with the current shell
- Controlling other processes

Unix Editors

- Introduction to vi
- Introduction to emacs

Shell Scripts

- Shells and shell scripts
- Shell variables and the environment
- Simple shell scripting
- Start-up shell scripts
- Making things easier with scripts

Networking

- Connecting to remote machines
- Remote file transfer

System Administration

- Being the root (administrator) user
- Shutdown and system startup
- Adding users
- Controlling user groups
- Installing software
- Starting and stopping a webserver