IS Workshop

Sub-module – The Linux Operating System

Jigsaw group assignments

Topic Assignment Presentation

1 Overview of Linux architecture Instructor Jan 22, 2018
1.1 The kernel
1.2 popular flavors
1.3 directory structure
1.4 important files
1.5 common file systems
1.6 devices
1.7 the shell
1.8 types of shells
1.9 accessing the shell
2 Command Line Basics Instructor Jan 22, 2018
2.1 man
2.2 whatis
2.3 find
2.4 locate
2.5 whereis
2.6 file
2.7 stat
2.8 date
2.9 cal
2.10 history
2.11 clear
2.12 logout
2.13 exit
3 File Management Group 1 Jan 24, 2018
3.1 Listing Files – ls Abdurahman 30 Minutes
3.2 The present working directory - pwd Shemisdeh
3.3 Changing Directory - cd Abdi Negash
3.4 A more structured listing – tree Bruck Tamerayehu
3.5 Copying a file – cp Addisu Tilahun
3.6 Moving a file – mv
3.7 Deleting files – rm
3.8 creating directories – mkdir
3.9 Removing Directories - rmdir
3.10 Matching directories – rsync
3.11 update time stamps on a file – touch
3.12 create links to files – ln
3.13 compress files – gzip
3.14 uncompress files – gunzip
3.15 Archive - tar
3.16 split large files - split
4 Text Editing and Extraction Group 2 Jan 24, 2018
4.1 Vim Meaza Getachew 30 Minutes
4.2 concatenate files & display their contents – cat and Bitsiyet Belaye
tac Yafet Mekonnen
4.3 count – wc Seblewongel Mamo
4.4 Display the output of a command – more and less
4.5 display parts of a files – head and tail
4.6 match patterns – grep
4.7 compare files - diff
5 Users, Groups and Security Group 3 Jan 24, 2018
5.1 changing file permissions – chmod Tadesse Kassa 30 Minutes
5.2 changing file ownerships – chown Tsedeke Belew
5.3 change file group – chgrp Ziyadu Nureta
5.4 switching users – su and sudo Axumawit Haile
5.5 user identity – id
5.6 display who is logged into the system - who
5.7 display current user identity – whoami and w
5.8 create and delete user accounts – adduser and
deluser
6 Process Control and Scheduling, and system control Group 4 Jan 26, 2018
6.1 Display running processes – ps Mekdes Asema 30 Minutes
6.2 Display running processes in a tree view – pstree Betelhem
6.3 terminate a process – kill and killall Mulunesh Belew
6.4 start a process in the background - & Chalachew
6.5 schedule programs to run at specified time – batch, Mulualem
at, crontab
6.6 shutdown the system – shutdown
6.7 Manage services – service
7 Network Group 1 Jan 26, 2018
7.1 Display hostname – hostname 30 Minutes
7.2 Display network interfaces – ifconfig
7.3 Display wireless network interfaces – iwconfig
7.4 send echo requests – ping
7.5 Display TCP/IP routing information – tracepath
7.6 DNS lookup – dig
7.7 Display network stat and routing information –
netstat
7.8 Send email – mail
7.9 File download - wget
8 Hardware Management & File Systems Group 2 Jan 26, 2018
8.1 List hardware – lshw 30 Minutes
8.2 List USB devices – lsusb
8.3 Unload removable media – eject
8.4 Display and edit partitions - parted
8.5 Mount/unmount file systems – mount/umount
8.6 Display swap information - swapinfo
8.7 Activate/deactivate swap space – swapon/swapoff
9 Monitoring and troubleshooting Group 3 Jan 26, 2018
9.1 Monitor system performance – top/htop 30 Minutes
9.2 Display processor utilization – mpstat
9.3 Display file systems usage – df
9.4 Display disk usage – du
9.5 Display info about the OS – uname
9.6 Display memory & swap usage info - free
9.7 Display Linux kernel info - lsmod