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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By : Philip Inshanally
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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By: Philip Inshanally

Overview of this book

The Linux+ certification provides a broad awareness of Linux operating systems, while giving professionals an upper hand in the IT industry. With this certification, you’ll be equipped with the all-important knowledge of installation, operation, administration, and troubleshooting services. This CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide will give you an overview of the system architecture. You’ll understand how to install and uninstall Linux distributions, followed by working with various package managers. You’ll then move on to manipulating files and processes at the command-line interface (CLI) and creating, monitoring, killing, restarting, and modifying processes. As you progress, you’ll be equipped to work with display managers and learn how you can create, modify, and remove user accounts and groups, as well as understand how to automate tasks. The last set of chapters will help you configure dates and set up local and remote system logging. In addition to this, you’ll explore different internet protocols, and delve into network configuration, security administration, Shell scripting, and SQL management. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have got to grips with all the modules you need to study for the LX0-103 and LX0-104 certification exams, but you’ll also be able to test your understanding with practice questions and mock exams.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Mock Exam - 1
20
Mock Exam - 2

Summary

In this chapter, the main focus was on the maintenance of the system's time and logging. In particular, we looked at ways in which we can manipulate the system time; we worked extensively with the date and timedatectl commands. Additionally, we touched on regular expressions for changing the date. Furthermore, we worked with the hardware clock; we saw ways to sync the system clock with the hardware clock and vice versa. Moving on, we worked with logging; we explored the common log files. The /var/log/syslog file was explored in the Ubuntu environment, whereas the journalctl command was used extensively in Fedora 28 for viewing the logs. Finally, we worked with remote logging; we installed the rsyslog package in the Fedora 28 and configured it as a rsyslog client. We then went over to Ubuntu 18 and configured its /etc/rsyslog.conf file to accept remote logs and use...