Rutgers University Internet Institute:
UNIX Administration
ITI-481 Section 14
Instructor: Chris Uriarte
Dates: Meetings (18 hrs): (Section
14) Mondays (6:10p-9:00p): Nov 13, 20, (skip 27), Dec 4, 11, (skip 18), (skip
25), (skip Jan 1, 2001), Jan 8, (skip 15), 22, 2001; Somerset facility (note
change in location from original posting)
Location: Rutgers
Internet Institute
Somerset,
NJ Facility
Instructor: Christopher
J. Uriarte
Email: chris@cju.com
Info: http://www.red-usa.com/staff/chris
Office
Phone: (732) 888-0088 x47
Prerequisites:
-
Basic, user-level knowledge of UNIX
-
You MUST know how to use a UNIX text editor (emacs, vi, pico, etc.) and
view files (cat, more, less, etc.)
Course Materials:
Text: Linux Administration, A Beginners Guide
Steven
Shah – McGraw Hill, 2000
Optional: Essential
System Administration, 2ed
Aeleen
Frisch – O’Reilly, 1996
Class Slides:
http://iti.rutgers.edu/II/ITI481/
Username: linux
Password: linux
Class Announcements, Notes, etc.:
http://www.cju.com/classes/ITI481-14
Rutgers
University Internet Institute: UNIX
Administration
ITI-481
Instructor: Chris Uriarte
Syllabus
Slides available
for all topics, additional references in parentheses
Week 1:
- Class
Overview (Website)
- Introduction
to UNIX Systems
- UNIX
background, history, distribution overview
- Introduction
to Linux (Chapter 1)
- Installing
Linux (Chapter
2)
- Configuring
X-Windows (Chapter
3)
Week 2:
- Software
installation (source, distribution, RPM)
(Chapter
4)
- Booting
and Shutting Down (LILO, kernels boot, run levels, rc scripts) (Chapter 7)
- Emergency
boot procedures
Week 3:
- Account
Management (Chapter 5)
- Basic
Network Configuration (Chapter
24)
- Daemons
and Inetd (pg
195)
Week 4:
- Disk
Partitioning (Website)
- Directories
and File Systems (Chapter 8)
- Mounting
Local File systems (Website)
- Network
File Systems (NFS) (Chapter 18, Website)
Week 5: NIS
- Cron (pg. 183)
- Syslog
and Logging (pg. 178)
Week 6:
- Electronic
Mail, SMTP (Chapter 15)
- Sendmail
(Chapter
15)
- Class
Choice (apache, SAMBA??)