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This official Novell Press Study Guide is your key to reviewing the fundamentals of installing, running, and administering SUSE LINUX so that you can pass Novell Practicum: 050-069, Novell's Certified Linux Professional exam, and become a Novell CLP. Expert trainer and curriculum developer Emmett Dulaney brings you the practical knowledge, tested techniques, real-world scenarios, and hands-on lab exercises you need to help you get the CLP certification from Novell.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 The NCLP Certification Process and Planning Your Approach
• The Exam Situation
• Exam-Taking Basics
• Exam-Handling Strategies
• Planning Your Approach
• 2 Understanding SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
• Introducing Linux
• Introducing SLES 9
• Installing SLES
• Drivers and Interfaces
• The Linux Desktop
• Working with KDE
• Working with Other Desktops
• Working with Processes
• Summary
• 3 Preliminary GNU and Unix Commands
• Working at the Command Line
• Command-Line Interaction
• Connecting Commands
• Wildcards
• The Path Statement and Other Variables
• Common Variables
• Quoting
• Command History
• Command Aliasing
• Other Features and Notes
• Processing Text nl, head, and tail cut, paste, and join
• Paste
• Join
• Sort, Count, Format, and Translate
• Other Useful Utilities
• Basic File Management
• Working with cd and pwd
• Absolute and Relative Addressing
• Working with ls
• Applying a touch
• Copying and Moving
• cp mv dd Removing Files and Directories
• Making Directories
• Standard Output and Input tee for Two xargs
• Working with Processes
• What Is a Process
• Working with ps
• Working with pstree and top
• Ending a Process
• Background and Foreground
• Changing Priorities nice renice
• Working with grep and sed
• The grep Family sed
• Other Useful Utilities
• Working with (p. vi)
• Starting (p. vi)
• Navigation
• Changing Text
• Saving Files
• Inserting and Deleting
• Navigating Screens
• Searching for Text
• Copying Text
• Other Operations
• Lab Exercise 3-1: Starting and Stopping a Service
• Summary
• Metacharacter Summary
• Command
• Summary
• 4 Working with Files
• Working with File Permissions and Ownership
• Standard Permissions
• Changing Values
• Access Control Lists
• Special Permissions
• Working with Links
• Hard Links
• Symbolic Links
• Finding System Files
• Working with Quotas
• Summary
• Command Summary
• 5 Basic Linux Administration
• Creating and Managing Users
• Creating User Accounts
• Managing User Accounts
• Removing Users
• Working with Groups
• Creating a New Group
• Picking a Group
• Modifying Groups
• Working with PAM
• Configuring System Logs
• The Log Daemon
• Files to Know
• Maintaining Effective Backups
• Utilities to Know
• dd Related Utilities
• Adding a Mirror
• Working with the Time
• Working with NTP
• Lab Exercise 5-1: Manually Creating a New User
• Summary
• Command Summary
• 6 Shells, Scripting, Programming, and Compiling
• Sprucing Up a Basic Script
• Items to Keep in Mind
• Accepting Input
• Representing the Variables
• The shift Command
• Adding Logic
• Using [Using If-Then Mentality
• Using exit
• Two If-Then Variations
• Conditional Execution
• Looping Around
• Using while
• Using until
• Using for Revisiting Input
• Working with case
• A Mild exit
• Working with Numbers
• Lab Exercise 6-1: Finding and Killing the Process That Is Your Shell
• Lab Exercise 6-2: Create a Script to Count the Number of Running Processes
• Summary
• Command Summary
• 7 Boot, Initialization, Shutdown, and Runlevels
• Understanding Runlevels
• Changing Runlevels
• The inittab File
• Enter LILO
• Enter GRUB

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