At P2PU, people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback.
This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
Learn what you need to know in order to become a GNU/Linux Certified Engineer.
There is a site at, http://courses.devblog.co/ where you will find the GNU/Linux Course.
Sign up there where new videos will be posted as well as quizzes and tests. Get in touch if you have any questions or concerns.
We can use p2pu to communicate and study, and use the course site to take the quizzes and watch videos. http://courses.devblog.co/
For every user that completes the course with a passing grade, I will be sending you a Certificate certifying you by P2PU and DevBlog for GNU/Linux Administration.
There is an irc channel on freenode you can join #p2pu-55-linux , a possible space for us to organize, discuss, share.
posted message: GNU/Linux Tip of the Day: Using the `watch` utility will allow you to run a command at a set interval. For instance, say you need to check the status of a process and you were using `ps -aux`. You could do `watch -n 2 'ps -aux | grep PID'` and the grep you issued would repeat every 2 seconds since we defined a 2 second interval with -n.
posted message: GNU/Linux Tip of the day: using the nohup utility followed by a command and the & will allow you to run a script immune to any hangups as a background process. Example: `nohup php script.php &` will run the script.php file as a background process while making sure there are no interruptions.
posted message: GNU/Linux Tip of the day: Using a utility `screen` can allow you to share a terminal with other people allowing easy remote interaction. http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442418-using-screen-for-remote-interaction
posted message: I'm really far behind right now. I will try to catch up as I can. Will the classes stay posted so those of us who's lives are waay to busy be able to keep going at our own pace? I hope so because I'm going to need it.
posted message: GNU/Linux Tip of the day: You can send messages to all users currently logged in to the system using the wall utility. Example. `wall Hi everyone` would send the message Hi everyone to everyone currently logged in.
posted message: I'm looking for bilingual people to help me with different users questions. Let me know if you're interested and what languages you speak.
posted message: Apart from the courses, I want to invite everyone to post what they would like to learn. We can have group discussions, regarding the topic you choose. If I get enough votes for a video on that topic, then I will also make a video walking you whatever we voted on.
posted message: Sorry I wasn't able to post a new video this weekend. I will work on making some this coming week to make up for it. I have created a task in the mean time for everyone to do some research.
posted message: Only a few videos left to post, and then we will have 1 last exam which will allow you to get your level 1 certification. Certifications will be issued using the name provided in the Courses site. You will receive a email with a PDF version of the certification after you pass the course. If you would like a hard copy please get in contact with me for more details. A new course will be open then after for the level 2 which will cover more advance topics as well as security. There will be 3 Levels in total to the GNU Linux certifications, where the 3rd one will be the highest you can achieve through P2PU and DevBlog Courses.
posted message: Cool GNU Linux Tip for Today: Configure NTP on your system to synchronize your time. There are only 4 steps to do this. First install ntp "yum -y install ntp". Second synchronize NTP to a defined server "ntpdate pool.ntp.org". Next start the ntpd service "service ntpd start". Lastly, make it so ntpd starts after each reboot "chkconfig ntpd on". You can find a tutorial here: http://www.devblog.co/configure-ntp-network-time-protocol-to-synchronize-your-system-clock/
posted message: Cool GNU Linux Tip for Today: Customize your VIM editor by adding a tree explorer. The NERD tree allows you to explore your filesystem and to open files and directories. It presents the filesystem to you in the form of a tree which you
manipulate with the keyboard and/or mouse. It also allows you to perform
simple filesystem operations. To install: Put NERD_tree.vim in ~/.vim/plugin and NERD_tree.txt in ~/.vim/doc. For more information click here: http://bit.ly/s3US
posted message: Cool GNU Linux Tip for today: Say you want to view the contents for the bottom of a file live to see changes or additions. You can use the tail utility along with the -f flag.
For instance, As you run a PHP script you want to see if anything gets added to the php error log. You could use `tail -f /path/to/php_error_log`