Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at 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. I always push the second chapter of Frisch's Essential Systems Administration (O'Reilly, of course) at folks. That's the chapter entitled "The Unix Way", which gives a *really* good overview of the archetecture of *Nix, what's where and why. > > 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. awk, awk! Perl's a day, minimum, by itself, but awk you can do in an hour or two, and have immediate results. mark