CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 07 – Process and Module Management Part 2

12. The top Command Now, when you do take a look at some of the information, it might not be in the order that you like. In other words, you want to see the top offenders, whatever you want to call those processes first. So remember that with most of these, you have a top… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 07 – Process and Module Management Part 1

1. Topic A: Process Management All right. In this unit we’re going to talk about our processes and module management. Now this is really getting into the deeper parts of the operating system of its functionality where we actually care about all the little processes that are running in their parent processes. So we’re going… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 5

37. RAID Level Raid. Level three is a striping with a Parity drive. So what does that mean to us? What it means is that I have 3234 drives that are storing the actual data as a stripe. Striping means filling each one up equally as much. And I have another drive whose job is… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 4

29. Swap Space Options All right. When you originally configured this Linux box and you partitioned your drive, you were told basically when you created it that you had to make a root partition and a swap partition. Those were the minimum too. You could make more partitions if you want to but we have… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 3

19. Demo – Editing the fstab File We now remember the fstab or FS tab. Sorry, I had somebody say that to me, and I thought it was funny. So anyway, the file system tab file is the one that we’re going to edit with VI. And remember, it was designed so that every time… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 2

11. parted – Partition Editor So one of the other optional tools that you can use for creating a partition is a tool called Parted. Now Parted we say, is text mode, which just means it’s a command line tool. Now, you won’t find it on every single distribution of Linux. It’s not automatically there,… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 1

1. System Configuration Now in this unit we’re going to talk about system configurations, mostly dealing with hard drives, but really we can talk about devices. So when we think about expanding onto our Linux operating system, we’re on the actual hardware platform adding new drives. We’re going to focus on making sure that they… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 09 – Networking Part 7

50. Resource Records Now within those zones, as I said before, we have what’s called resource records. The resource records have different types because, as I said, some might be hosts, some might be aliases, mail exchanges, all those types of things. And they often are configured by a couple of letters, a little acronym,… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 09 – Networking Part 6

44. Demo – Viewing Daemon Startup Options All right, so we’re going to talk about this Internet super daemon and we’re going to take a look at where that is set up, at least on Debian. Remember, it’s different in different versions. If you are running Red Hat, this would be the Xin ETD config… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 09 – Networking Part 5

39. Demo – Installing and Configuring DHCP Server Services All right, we are going to talk about installing and configuring DHCP services in case you would like to have your system be the DHCP server. So I just minimized my console window. I have to actually install that particular package. So we’re going to make… Read More »