Join Grant McWilliams for an in-depth discussion in this video What you should know, part of Linux: Kernels and Logging for System Administration.
- [Narrator] In this course, we'll be using CentOS 7 running in a virtual machine in VirtualBox. You can run VirtualBox on any host operating system, including Windows, Mac OS or Linux. You may also want to have high-speed internet for doing Linux OS software updates. You will also want to have 10-15GB of free hard drive space for the Linux virtual machine. If you took my previous course, titled Linux Installation and Overview, you can keep using that CentOS 7 virtual machine if you wish. If you did not, you can use a standard CentOS 7 server with GUI installation.
This means that while installing CentOS, you'll want to choose server with GUI on the software selection screen. While installing, you'll also want to make sure the first user is an administrator.
- Linux boot loader process
- Creating a custom GRUB menu entry
- Booting into the emergency target
- Linux init services
- Making systemd services persistent
- Linux kernel directory structure
- Updating the kernel
- Managing kernel modules
- System logging
- Searching and rotating log files