Spring Term will commence in about three weeks and with it will come some changes in the Linux sysadmin classes at LCC.
The current class will be split into two classes, called Level 1 and Level 2. The official descriptions of these classes are here... http://www.lanecc.edu/cont_ed/cont_ed/cc_menu_classes.html#10 ... but thanks to insanely early deadlines the official descriptions are little more than guesses at what the Linux landscape was going to look like right about now. What follows are more recent (and useful) descriptions of the two classes. We're still following the Red Hat model for training, and now that we know what RH is doing with Enterprise Linux training & certification we're kinda sorta doing things that are similar. LEVEL ONE The first-level class will cover what's needed to build, install, troubleshoot and maintain Linux workstations. We won't do any server stuff at all except ssh and peer-to-peer file sharing with 'doze boxen. More details will be available after I create the syllabus (hopefully within the next week) but this is what I envision right now: * Basic Stuff that has been holding back some of the less-experienced students in my current classes, such as shell basics, grep & regular expressions and networking essentials. * Other basics such as filesystem structure and tools, process control, package management and local user & group management. * Basic host security. * Connecting workstations to various enterprise services such as NIS, NFS and so forth. Yeah, I know they're lame but for some reason the certification testers are still requiring knowledge & experience in that stuff. No, I don't get it either. I probably won't get around to Netware and LDAP interoperabilty this term but I hope to cover it in this course sometime in the future. I'm kind of waiting for the dust to settle around the Novell/SUSE thing. Basically, Level One will cover most of the stuff needed for obtaining an RHCT. It should be noted that LCC is not a Redhat-blessed training facility; we're only covering the topics, we're not preparing people to take the exam. LEVEL TWO The second-level class will cover most of the ground that is in the typical RHCE portion of a Redhat certification exam. Again, this should not be construed as a class that will prepare anyone to actually sit for the exam, it's just a description of the topics that will be covered. In this class we will build secure servers (and as much network infrastructure as can be done in the lab that we use): Firewalls, routers, DNS and DHCP servers. Web and mail (SMTP, POP and IMAP) servers. NFS, NIS and Samba servers, including domain authentication for, and interoperability with, 'doze domains. Management of large numbers of machines. And at some point (probably not this term), after we know what the Netware/Linux landscape is going to look like, hopefully Netware & LDAP interoperability. More information will be available after I get the syllabus written, hopefully in the next week. You can register on-line for either of these classes (or, if you know any newbies, for the "Intro to Linux" class) at LCC's website (lanecc.edu). Please feel free to forward this to anyone whom you think might be interested. Any questions, just ask! Thanks, Ken _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
