Schedule For Thursday

Where to get help and more information

• The web page; starting point for all resources
• iLinux-Athena
• FAQ's, HOWTOs
• Redhat docs, LDP docs
• Books in stores
• Newsgroups
• discuss, MIT mailing lists

Kernel Building

• What is a kernel?
• Getting kernel source
• Rebuilding a kernel
• Modular vs. Monolithic

System Administration

• Securing your system
  • Making your machine secure
  • Tickets and tokens
  • Periodically updating (update.pl)
• Redhat Administration
  • Adding athena and local users
  • Using the RedHat control panel for fstab, printing, etc.
  • Glint package system for installing extra stuff after the install.
  • RPM system; updating your system software
• Everything else
  • Setting up a web or ftp server (note limitations of ftpd)
  • Overview of filesystem and important files (shared libs, /etc, /var/log, /etc/rc.d, etc)
  • Mounting other partitions
  • Backing up

Q & A period

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