Beginning Unix System Administration DeCal
Contents
Announcements
- 2009.05.11: Materials for weeks 10, 11 have been posted. Site moved back to www.ocf. Remember final presentations are tonight in 306 Soda. Today is also the last day to turn in any homework/labs!
- Archived Announcements
Schedule
| Date |
Title |
Notes |
HW |
Lab |
| 2/2 |
1 Introduction to System Administration |
Slides, Syllabus |
OCF account, Survey |
-- |
| 2/9 |
2 Introduction to UNIX |
Slides, Notes |
HW |
Lab |
| 2/16 |
Holiday: No Class |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 2/23 |
3 UNIX Commands |
Slides, Notes |
HW |
Lab |
| 3/2 |
Class Cancelled |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 3/9 |
4 The Internet |
Slides, Notes |
HW |
Lab |
| 3/16 |
5 Server Daemons |
Slides, Notes |
HW, Ganglia Configuration |
Lab |
| 3/23 |
Spring Break: No Class |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 3/30 |
6 Simplifying Week 5 |
Slides, Notes |
HW |
Lab |
| 4/6 |
7 LAMP Model |
Slides, Notes |
HW |
Lab |
| 4/13 |
8 Multi-User Environments |
Slides, Notes |
HW |
Lab |
| 4/20 |
9 Security |
Slides |
Email suggestions for lecture topics |
Start final project! |
| 4/27 |
10 Special Topics: Case Studies |
Slides |
-- |
-- |
| 5/4 |
11 Special Topics: PGP Encryption |
Slides |
HW |
-- |
| 5/11 |
12 Final Project presentations (306 Soda) |
-- |
-- |
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Extra Links
Final Project
Course Information
Time: Monday, 5:00-7:00pm
Location: 310 Soda 5-6pm, 275 Soda 6-7pm
Facilitators: Calvin Ardi and Jonathan Chu
Office Hours: See OCF Staff Hours
Enrollment: 2 units
- Lower Division: 26430
- Upper Division: 26613
This course is open for students with little or no prior Unix experience. It
is our goal that at the end of this course, you will be comfortable and
familiar with the command line interface in order to use and administer Unix
operating systems as well as setting up a basic web server.
More Course Information
- Attendance is mandatory.
- There will be weekly homework assignments, graded on a P/NP basis.
- A final project will be given in lieu of an exam; failure to
complete will result in a NP.
- Read the course syllabus for even more information.
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How much time should I expect to spend on this DeCal?
The workload for this beginning section should not be hard and I expect
that it will not consume too much of your time. Aside from attending
lecture, working on the labs and homework should take around an hour at
most and work, in general, will ease up during midterms as facilitators are
students, too. It is entirely up to you as to how much you want to spend
working on the projects and labs; there are always opportunities to expand
upon what has been taught and the easiest way to learn Unix system
administration is through doing, not just reading.
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Are there any prerequisites?
There are no formal prerequisites for this course! We'll teach you
everything you'll need to know. It will help if you know your way around
some operating system, and if you know how to use a command-liine
text editor, like vim or emacs. Regardless, don't worry
if you're unfamiliar with any of it.
Resources
We are now using glookup to take care of grades. SSH into one of the EECS instructional servers and use the command glookup to display grades.