Customizing the UNIX User Environment
Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
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Overview/Description
To demonstrate how to customize the UNIX environment to suit user requirements
Target Audience
End users and IT professionals working in a UNIX environment for the first time
Prerequisites
Basic keyboard and mouse skills; some experience of working in a command-line environment such as MSDOS an advantage
Expected Duration (hours)
4.0
Lesson ObjectivesCustomizing the UNIX User Environment
name and describe the files used to configure the common shell environments.
explain the role of global environment variables and local shell variables, and name common variables.
reference shell variables used in the Bash, Korn, and C shells.
customize the Bash shell.
describe the function and design principles of the X windowing system.
name the files used to configure X, explain their functions, and describe their syntax.
reconfigure screen resolution on an X terminal.
explain the function of window managers and describe UNIX desktop environments such as CDE, KDE, and GNOME.
describe the types of documentation available on UNIX systems.
use the online manual pages to get help with UNIX commands.
use the Info system to find out more about UNIX commands and utilities.
use the man pages to find out about the date command.
Course Number:80536_eng