CS202 or equivalent UNIX experience. Knowledge of operating systems concepts (e.g. CS303) is preferred, but not required. A pre-test will be given to determine if students have an appropriate knowledge base.
6:00pm-7:50pm T,Th Summer Session, 1995
Trent A. Fisher, trent@cs.pdx.edu
UNIX System Administration Handbook, 2e By Nemeth, Snyder and Seebass. TCP/IP Network Administration By Craig Hunt is an optional text
Additional readings will be required (most of which are available online).
Persons successfully completing this class will have the basic UNIX skills necessary for administrating UNIX systems in a networked environment, and the knowledge of other resources for researching more advanced topics.
The course will cover a wide range of UNIX system administration topics, including: halting and booting, filesystems, process structure, adding and configuring devices, networking, backups, mail, UUCP , USENET , system monitoring, performance tuning and security. In addition, some UNIX history, folklore and philosophy will be sprinkled throughout.
Other topics may be added at the request of the students.
The emphasis will be on BSD systems, although some AT&T topics will be covered, particularily where there are radical differences.
A variety of UNIX machines will be available to the students of this class (both BSD and SysV based systems). Linux or FreeBSD will likely dominate.