| Week |
Period |
Topics |
Reading Assignment |
Lab |
| #1 |
Lecture 1 |
Course introduction |
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Lab 1:
Init |
| Lecture 2 |
Getting help: man and info pages |
Chapter 1 |
| Lecture 3 |
Bootstrap processes; init and shutdown |
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| #2 |
Lecture 1 |
Boot loaders: lilo and grub |
Chapter 2 |
Lab 2:
Root powers; Quiz #1 |
| Lecture 2 |
Superuser and root powers: su and sudo |
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| Lecture 3 |
Regular Expressions in Unix/Linux |
Chapter 3 |
| #3 |
Lecture 1 |
Process control: ps and top |
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Lab 3:
Regexp; Quiz #2 |
| Lecture 2 |
Process mgmt: bg, fg, nice, kill |
Chapter 4 |
| Lecture 3 |
File system permissions: mount, setuid, setgid |
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| #4 |
Lecture 1 |
File system mgmt: chmod, chown, chgrp, umask |
Chapter 5 |
Lab 4:
File System Mgmt; Quiz #3 |
| Lecture 2 |
Managing users: /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow,
/etc/group |
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| Lecture 3 |
Adding new users; maintaining accounts |
Chapter 6 |
| #5 |
Lecture 1 |
Shell scripting basics |
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Lab 5:
User Accounts; Quiz #4 |
| Lecture 2 |
Periodic processes: cron, at |
Chapter 9 |
| Lecture 3 |
Shell scripting (cont.) |
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| #6 |
Lecture 1 |
Backups: dd, dump, restore, tar, cpio, volcopy |
Chapter 10 |
Lab 6: at and cron jobs;
Quiz #5 |
| Lecture 2 |
Backup systems: amanda |
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| Lecture 3 |
System logging: syslog |
Chapter 11 |
| #7 |
Lecture 1 |
Rotating system logs: logrotate |
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Lab 7: Quiz #6 |
| Lecture 2 |
Network mgmt: ping, traceroute |
Chapter 20 |
| Lecture 3 |
Network mgmt: netstat, tcpdump |
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| #8 |
Lecture 1 |
Simple Network Mgmt Protocol (SNMP) |
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Lab 8: Quiz #7 |
| Lecture 2 |
Security: Network File Systems (NFS), .rhosts,
rlogin, telnet, rsh |
Chapter 21 |
| Lecture 3 |
Security: crack, tripwire |
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| #9 |
Lecture 1 |
Security: PGP, SSH, Firewalls |
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Lab 9: Quiz #8 |
| Lecture 2 |
Web Hosting: Apache server |
Chapter 22 |
| Lecture 3 |
Web Hosting: Apache (cont.) |
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| #10 |
Lecture 1 |
Anonymous FTP and HTTP |
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Review for Final Exam |
| Lecture 2 |
Linux distribution updates |
Chapter 23 |
| Lecture 3 |
RedHat Package Mgr (RPM), Debian apt-get |
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| #11 |
Exam week |
Final exam |
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