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...
Since the last one was so quick I’ll do another before I move on to something else today. Here is lesson five from the Linux Up Skill Challenge. This lesson is called “More or less…” and touches on five different topics. Get familiar with using more and less for viewing files, including being able to get to the top or bottom of a file in less, and searching for some text...
I’m going to play a little bit of catch up this afternoon and move on to lesson four of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. This lesson covers installing software and exploring the file structure. The tasks for this lesson include: Install a new application from the online repositoriesBecome familiar with some of the standard directoriesLook at and format and content of some configuration files...
Moving on to day 3 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. They have titled day three as “Power trip!” The lesson starts by talking about root and the best practice of not directly logging in with root, but instead using the sudo command. The tasks for today are: Use the links provided to understand how sudo works.Use ls -l to check permissions of /etc/shadow. Can you use cat, less or nano...
I’ve fallen behind a little due to some family responsibilities but since this is a self paced lesson plan it isn’t too much of a worry. This lesson focused on getting comfortable moving around the command line. We started working with commands such as cd, ls, and mkdir. I’m familiar with these commands but working through the switches is helpful as I just don’t remember...
Day 1 – Get to know your server So it looks like my tasks today are: Connect and login remotely to your serverRun a few simple commands to check the status of your serverChange your password Well I’ll jump in to my trusty Putty and connect to my challenge server. Connected. Reading through this lesson it says the OpenSSH client is a feature in Windows? I had completely forgot! It also...