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Linux For Information Technology Applications. Unit-1: VII Semester

This document outlines the units and topics covered in the VII Semester Information Technology course on Linux for Information Technology Applications. The units cover basic Linux concepts, networking, integrating Linux and Windows, LDAP, shell scripting, startup and run levels, security, email servers, computational clusters, and DNS. Specific topics include installation, configuration, commands, networking services, NFS, Samba, LDAP, intrusion detection, email protocols, MPI, and BIND for DNS configuration.

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Linux For Information Technology Applications. Unit-1: VII Semester

This document outlines the units and topics covered in the VII Semester Information Technology course on Linux for Information Technology Applications. The units cover basic Linux concepts, networking, integrating Linux and Windows, LDAP, shell scripting, startup and run levels, security, email servers, computational clusters, and DNS. Specific topics include installation, configuration, commands, networking services, NFS, Samba, LDAP, intrusion detection, email protocols, MPI, and BIND for DNS configuration.

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VII Semester(Information

Technology)

Linux for Information Technology Applications.


IT-451

Unit-1
Introduction: Basic concepts of the operating system. Commands,
shells and processes; users and groups; file system and directories. System installation, configuration and upgrade

Installation stages; network installation; disk partitioning; post-install


system customization and upgrade; dpkg and APT package installation, remove, upgrade and query; semiautomatic system installation.

Kernel Kernel tasks; managing kernel modules at runtime; kernel


configuration and compilation boot loaders GRUB and LILO;

Unit-2
Linux Networking
Basic concepts of networking: Network packets, TCP/IP protocol suit, address resolution protocol (ARP); IP addresses and network mask; subnets and routing; IPV4 and Network classes; ports. Configuring Linux machine on the network; arp, ipconfig and netstat commands. Network services and tools; telnet, rsh, ftp, rcp, ssh, rsync, inetd.conf; opening and closing ports.

Network File system (NFS)


File system sharing or the network; remote procedure call (R P C) services; NFS server and client sides; NFS installation & configuration; and statistic mount and auto mount configuration; when trouble shooting NFS; security and optimization

Network information service (NIS)


Centralized authentication systems; sharing user and host information or the network; NIS server and client sides and configuration; compatibility mode; net group; security issues.

Unit 3
Integrating Linux and Windows
Elements of windows networking; Net BIOS SMB\ \ CIFS protocols; domain controller; Samba server on Linux for centralized window logon; file sharing and printing, samba client; samba installation and configuration; Unix and windows password. Dual Boot: running windows and Linux on the same PC; GRUB and NT Boot loaders; accessing windows files systems from Linux and vice versa;

Light Weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)


Overview of Unix authentication and naming service; introduction to LDAP: Domain component (DC); organizational Unit (OU); common names (CN); Schemas; IDIF format; services; polls and commands; server and client sides; Open LDAP installation and configuration; LDAP applications. Shell scripting, syntax of brash; looping; case statement; function; command substitution; awk, grep, sed. Startup and Run Levels. Scheduled jobs. Boot up and login process sequence; run levels; startup scripts; scheduling jobs with at and cron.

Unit-4
Linux Security
System vulnerabilities; port scanning; encryption, encrypted services and connections; PGP/GPG Intrusion protection: tcp-wrappers, IP-firewalls (iptables), NAT and DMZ;

Intrusion detection systems:


tripwire; Secure system management practices. Email Server Steps of Email transaction; Email envelope and headers; SMTP servers; IMAP and POP3 servers; E-mail relay; Postfix configuration; Spam and viruses,

Linux Computational Clusters


Overview of Linux cluster and clustering tools; High performance Computational Clusters; Message Passing Interface (MP) for parallel programming; MPI compilation and installation; Scheduling and queue systems. Sun Grid Engine (SGE); cluster management tools.

Domain Name Server (DNS)


Host name resolution; domain name hierarchy; DNS zones; configuration of master, slave and caching DNS servers with BIND 9.

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