On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca Subject: Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system
i'm not ignoring all of the suggestions so far (i'm taking note of all of them) but as rp herrold suggests, a lot of this is getting pretty far afield, so let me drag this back on-topic.
i'm looking for cool things that can be added into a very generic 5-day course in basic RHEL (centos) administration that wouldn't normally be covered. i've provided the outline on which the 3rd party courseware is based -- it was written to mimic red hat's RH 131 course:
https://www.redhat.com/courses/rh131_red_hat_linux_system_administration/
so you can see what's already there, and i'm after cool tips, tricks and utilities that people who are long-time RHEL/centos admins have learned that they think are terrifically useful that i can sneak in as bonus content.
the caveat is that i don't want to add topics that would take longer than, say, a half day since i can always take a topic like that, extend it to a full-day course, and market it *separately*.
case in point: virtualization. the course already covers virtualization *very* briefly and i don't want to make that section any longer since i can easily see having a full-day course on that topic.
*possibly* the same thing with puppet or cfengine (both excellent suggestions). i'm thinking of at least demoing one or both and, depending on the interest, perhaps suggesting a full day course in enterprise-wide administration.
anyway, i appreciate all of the ideas so far, and i'm definitely going to use some of them. thanks muchly.
rday
p.s. one stupendously trivial idea i had was to give each student a cheap USB drive and use that as the vehicle for playing with filesystem utilities. with an $8 2G drive, i can demonstrate concepts like hotplugging, udev, LVM and so on, knowing i'll never risk the contents of the hard drive.
What about showing them how to use the GParted Live CD. They can practice partitioning the USB drive, which comes up as /dev/sd???
As far as Linux is concerned, a USB drive is just another block device like /dev/sda
HTH
Keith
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