Linux Up Skill Challenge

A collection of 22 posts

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Linux Up Skill - Day 20

I’m working on lesson 20 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge today. This lesson is titled “Scripting” and I’m hopeful that means I can learn something here. For a large part of my career I have been told “Forget best practices, just get it working. Now!” The lesson

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Linux Up Skill - Day 19

Working on lesson 19 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is titled “Inodes, symlinks and other shortcuts.” The lesson begins speaking about the Linux Virtual Filesystem and the inode or layer between filenames and actual data. The lesson points out that permissions, ownership, and the dates are

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Linux Up Skill - Day 18

Moving along with lesson 18 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. This lesson is titled “Log rotation” which will be great to touch on Linux logs as they are not something I have very much experience with. The lesson starts with talking about logrotate and how helpful it can be

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Linux Up Skill - Day 17

Moving on to lesson 17 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is entitled “Build from the source.” This should be an interesting lesson. Let’s check it out! So we are going to install software directly from the source instead of from a repository package manager like

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Linux Up Skill - Day 16

Time to work through lesson 16 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is called “Archiving and compressing.” I feel like I am already familiar with Tar and GnuZip so this should be a pretty quick one. Let’s dive in! The lesson starts with a discussion on

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Linux Up Skill - Day 15

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 14

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 13

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 12

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 11

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,

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Linux Up Skill - Day 10

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.

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Linux Up Skill - Day 9

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 8

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 7

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,

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Linux Up Skill - Day 6

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 5

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 4

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 repositories * Become

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Linux Up Skill - Day 3

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

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Linux Up Skill - Day 2

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.

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Linux Up Skill - Day 1

Day 1 – Get to know your server So it looks like my tasks today are: * Connect and login remotely to your server * Run a few simple commands to check the status of your server * Change your password Well I’ll jump in to my trusty Putty and connect to my

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Linux Up Skill - Day 0

A day 0 to prep. Sounds great! They say each day’s lesson should take between 1 and 2 hours depending on your skill level. So I do appreciate them giving some prep before the lessons start in June. Day 0 is focused on preparing your own server. They are

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Setting Up R730, Part Four

After my little side trip down Hyper-V Manager configuration errors I’m ready to finish setting up in Hyper-V. From Windows Admin Center I create a 300GB drive partition to get me started with setting up some virtual machines. I set Hyper-V’s default disk and VM paths to this