On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------