Moving on to lesson 15 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge and then I think I’ll call it a day. Day 15’s lesson is titled “Deeper into repositories…” The lesson’s description speaks of going under the covers of apt which should be something new I can learn about. The lesson starts off with an overview of package managers like apt, yum, and dnf. Then it has me view...
Lesson 14 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge is called “Users and groups.” Looks like we’ll be expanding directly upon permissions from lesson 13. We’re setting up another user to fill a help-desk style role that can check disk space and reboot the server. So we start with making a new user. sudo adduser helen. Then we set a password with sudo passwd helen. Now we look at the...
I’m going to work on lesson 13 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is titled “Who has permission?” It has been eons since I’ve worked with Linux permissions but do remember doing this on my gaming servers and when setting up web servers so hopefully it won’t take too long to get back into the swing of it. The lesson starts with an explanation of...
I’m going to work on day 12 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge today. Today’s lesson is called “Transferring files.” It looks like this is going to focus on moving files to and from your server as well as uploading some images for your webpage. The lesson begins by covering some common protocols used to transfer files such as SMB, AFP, WebDAV, FTP, SCP, RSYNC, and SFTP but...
Halfway through the course now and only one lesson behind. Lesson 11 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge is called “Finding things…” So we’ll be looking at searching for files and the text inside them. Sounds great! It looks like we are going to look at locate, find, grep, and which. A handy lesson indeed! We are going to start with looking for a file called access.log. So we...
Lesson ten of the Linux Up Skill Challenge is called “Getting the computer to do your work for you.” Automation is a topic I can always learn more about and spend more time with. The lesson starts off with Cron. It starts with explaining the different ways to use Cron. It starts with crontab -l to view my user level tasks. I get a result of no crontab for david which is not surprising...
Lesson nine of the Linux Up Skill Challenge “Diving into networking.” This will be interesting, let’s see how rusty my networking skills are these days. There’s no list of tasks today so we’ll just go through the lesson as it works through things. The lesson expects ports 22 and 80 to be open to the world at this point since we have SSH and Apache running. I’m...
Took a quick break and now I’m back to catching up. They posted lesson 11 yesterday so I’m not too far behind anymore. On to lesson eight of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is called “The infamous ‘grep’ and other text processors.” It looks like we are going to start looking into the logs being generated on the server. It looks like...
Back at it on this Monday working to catch back up on this course. Here is day seven of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today we are looking at the server and its services. It looks like this lesson is focused on a better understanding of application installation, configuration files, services, and logs. Tasks to work through today are: Refresh your list of available packages.Install Apache from...
Lesson six from the Linux Up Skill Challenge is covering vim. I am thankful for this lesson. Everyone has a different preference for an editor and so I’ve always just followed along with whatever is used by the person describing the solution. I have no real preference at this point and it will be nice to dig further into vim. The lesson starts off explaining the two different modes in vim...