UNIX Overview (1 day)

Designed for: Staff who need an understanding of UNIX facilities

Primary Objective: To describe the use and facilities of a UNIX system

UNIX overview
Background and development of UNIX, various forms of UNIX, Open Systems, X/Window, multitasking, security;  hardware used on UNIX systems; disk usage, sections, shadowing, RAID, disk striping, disk cache, memory usage, shared segments, CD-ROM

Communications
Communications and connections to PC and mainframe; TCP/IP, LU 6.2, VT-100 emulation, File Transfer, TELNET, electronic mail; remote login; UNIX to UNIX communication

File structure
File organisation, directories, paths, file security and permissions; database access

Running jobs and processes
Program development and execution; handling work: terminology, processes, daemons;  scheduler: CRON and its use

Program and I/O terminology
How a program views files; filter, pipe, tee, redirection; the spooling system

Editing and filtering
Overview of editing options in UNIX: vi, ed, sed; common filters: more, grep, sort

Shells and scripts
Running routine tasks; shells, Korn, Bourne, C; scripts, sample scripts

UNIX administration
Systems administration tasks, groups of users, adding users, terminals, disks, accounting; rôle of operators and systems programmers

UNIX, Scripts, INGRES

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