Students who can benefit from this course are individuals who are preparing to perform basic system administration duties and are new to the Solaris OE, or those who are unfamiliar with the UNIX operating system.

• Use basic computer hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse)
• Input commands and control characters from a keyboard

• Use components of the desktop system
• Use command-line features and help resources
• Manage and view files and directories and change the directory contents
• Create and modify files and use basic file permissions
• Control the user work environment
• Use commands within the Korn shell
• Perform basic process and job control
• Archive files and create archives
• Compress, view, and uncompress files
• Perform remote file transfers

Module 1 - Using the Desktop in the Solaris 9 OE

• Describe the four main hardware components of a computer
• Describe the three main components of the SunOS operating system
• Log in to the system
• Use the desktop environment

Module 2 - Using Command-Line Features and Online Help Resources

• Construct and execute commands from the command line
• Use online documentation

Module 3 - Viewing Directories and Files

• Work with directories
• Work with files
• Print files

Module 4 - Changing the Solaris OE Directory Contents

• Copy files and directories
• Move and rename files and directories
• Create files and directories
• Remove files and directories
• Use symbolic links

Module 5 - Searching Files and Directories

• Search for content in files
• Search for files and directories

Module 6 - Using the vi Editor

• View file and directory permissions
• Determine file or directory access
• Change the permissions
• Use the default permissions

Module 7 - Using Basic File Permissions

• View file and directory permissions
• Determine file or directory access
• Change the permissions
• Use the default permissions

Module 8 - Using Commands Within the Korn Shell

• Use the shell metacharacters
• Describe the Korn shell variables
• Display the command history
• Describe user initialization files

Module 9 - Performing Basic Process and Job Control

• Describe a process
• View a process
• Search for a specific process
• Send a signal to a process
• Manage a job in the Korn shell

Module 10 - Performing Remote Connections and File Transfers

• Establish a remote login session on another system
• Copy files or directories to and from another system
• Transfer files between systems

Module 11 - Creating Archives

• Archive files
• Compress and archive files

Module 12 - Compressing, Viewing, and Uncompressing Files

• Compress files using the compress command
• View compressed files using the zcat command
• Uncompress files using the uncompress command
• Compress a file with the gzip command
• View files using the gzcat command
• Compress and archive multiple files with the zip command