On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
logging utilities? intrusion detection? monitoring? anything that leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours. i'm already thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel. other ideas? thanks.
If your students are new to RHEL/CentOS admin, they will appreciate some education regarding what and how to search into docs and other information sources: the Guides, CentOS community resources such as Forum, Wiki or this mailing list.
Proper scripting abilities are perhaps beyond reach for a short course, but you could at least show off some one-liners or those short, stunningly useful examples to help them get the idea that they definitely should get their feet wet on it sooner or later.