Date | Reading | Topic ---- ------- ----- May 8 | Handout | Introduction May 10 | Ch. 31 | Daemons May 13 | Ch. 2 | Booting a UNIX system May 15 | Ch. 32 | Policy and Politics May 17 | Ch. 3 | Rootly powers May 20 | Ch. 5 | Controlling processes May 22 | Ch. 6 | Adding new users May 24 | Handout | Help desks, beepers, etc. May 27 | ----- | ** No Class - Memorial Day ** May 29 | Ch. 17 | The Network File System May 31 | Ch. 18 | Sharing system files Jun 3 | Ch. 13 | Configuring the kernel Jun 5 | Ch. 8,27 | Serial devices, hardware management Jun 7 | Ch. 9 | Adding a disk Jun 10 | Ch. 15 | Network hardware Jun 12 | Ch. 14 | TCP/IP and routing Jun 14 | Ch. 16 | The domain name system Jun 17 | Ch. 19,20 | The internet, SLIP, PPP Jun 19 | Ch. 24 | USEnet Jun 21 | Ch. 26 | Disk space management Jun 24 | Handout | Perl Jun 26 | Handout | Perl Jun 28 | Handout | Sudo, expect Jul 1 | Ch. 21 | Electronic mail Jul 3 | Ch. 21 | Electronic mail Jul 5 | Ch. 22 | Network management Jul 8 | Ch. 26 | Disk space management Jul 10 | Ch. 29 | Performance analysis Jul 12 | Handout | More performance analysis Jul 15 | Ch. 28 | Accounting Jul 17 | Ch. 12 | Syslog and log files Jul 19 | Ch. 23 | Security Jul 22 | Ch. 11 | Backups Jul 24 | Handout | Security tools Jul 26 | Handout | Legal issues Jul 29 | | ** System Emergency Week ** Jul 31 | | ** System Emergency Week ** Aug 2 | | Final Exam