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MS-373
Advanced Unix (Systems Administration)

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