UNIX Overview for Managers

LENGTH OF COURSE:
1 Day

DESCRIPTION: This one-day course is intended as an overview of the UNIX Operating System targeted towards management level personnel. UNIX is growing rapidly in popularity as a platform for open systems computing. UNIX also has extensive built in networking capabilities. It is an attractive system for downsizing. Knowledge of UNIX is an advantage to today's data processing decision makers.

PREREQUISITES: Basic understanding of data processing concepts.

INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: A combination of Lecture and Demonstrations (when/where available).

AUDIENCE

This course is designed for Managers and Supervisory Personnel or anyone needing a conceptual overview of the UNIX System.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

The UNIX Operating System
- History
- Concepts
- Philosophy
- Filters
- Hardware and Software Layers
- Processes
UNIX Connectivity
- Networking
- UUCP
- Internet
UNIX Tools
- Available Editors (brief)
  - ed
  - vi
  - emacs
Using UNIX
- Creating Files
- Selected Commands
  - cat, cp, mv, rm, ls

The Shell
- Available Shells
- Recommended Shell
- Shell Features
  - Pipes
  - Foreground and Background
  - I/O Redirection
- Shell Programming
The UNIX File System
- Directories
- Mount Points
Application Development
- Shell Scripts
- make
- awk, yacc, lex
Introduction to System Administration
- root and su
- Maintaining Users
- cron
- daemons
- The password command

Security (basic)
Printing (queues)

FROM OUR STUDENT EVALUATIONS...
"Instructor showed excellent knowledge of the subject and was ready to go beyond the course examples and into more complicated examples and expressions etc., due to the level of the class."

Rudy Penaranda
State of New Jersey

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