Coursework & CalendarWed, Jan 22 2003, 9:22pm
The topics, lecture notes, reading and homework assignments
for the course are listed below.
Lecture notes and assignments* will be posted below after each lecture.
Any updates to the homework, reading, or other material will be noted in the
News section, and updated here
as well.
Unless otherwise noted, all reading assignments are from the course textbooks:
UNIX System Administration Handbook
and/or Linux Administration Handbook. Note: the content below is subject to change during the
course. *Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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| Sep 23 | Intro to UNIX System Administration Review of UNIX and & Hardware | 1,27 (skim) | 1,29 |
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| Sep 30 | Boot & Shutdown The Super User - root | 2,3 | 2,3 |
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| Oct 7 | Processes User Accounts | 4,6 | 4,6 |
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| Oct 14 | Filesystems Disks and Partitions | 5,8 | 5,8 |
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| Oct 21 | Kernel & Drivers Installation & Configuration | 12 | 12 |
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| Oct 28 | Networking Basics Midterm | 13,15:372-385 20:625-635 | 13,15:335-349 20:627-637 |
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| Nov 4 | Daemons Cron & Automation | 9,28 | 9,28 |
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| Nov 11 | No Class - Veteran's Day | 11.1-11.4 18 (omit 18.5) | 11.1-11.3 18 |
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| Nov 18 | Sharing System Files Syslog | 11.5-11.6 | 11.4-11.5 |
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| Nov 25 | Security Print Services | 21,23 | 21,24 |
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| Dec 2 | Backup & Restore Review | 10 | 10 |
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| Dec 9 | Final Exam |
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