Week 1 8/30,9/1 A Brief History of System Administration (pp. 1264-1273 ULSA) Chapter 1 -- Where to Start (pp. 1-28, ULSA) Chapter 2 -- Scripting and the Shell (pp. 29-76, ULSA) The Evolution of the Unix Timesharing System (here) Week 2 9/6,9/8 Chapter 3 -- Booting and Shutting Down (pp. 77-102 ULSA) Chapter 4 -- Access Control and Rootly Powers (pp. 103-119 ULSA) Chapter 5 -- Controlling Processes (pp. 120-139 ULSA) Week 3 9/13,9/15 Chapter 6 -- The Filesystem (pp. 140-173 ULSA) Week 4 9/20,9/22 Chapter 7 -- Adding New Users (pp. 174-205 ULSA) Chapter 8 -- Storage (pp. 206-281 ULSA) Week 5 9/27,9/29 Chapter 14 -- TCP/IP Networking (pp. 447-509 ULSA) Chapter 16 -- Network Hardware (pp. 531-551 ULSA) Week 6 10/4,10/6 Chapter 17 -- DNS: The Domain Name System (pp. 552-688 ULSA) Chapter 18 -- The Network File System (pp. 690-718 ULSA) Week 7 10/11,10/13 Chapter 19 -- Sharing System Files (pp. 719-741 ULSA) Chapter 20 -- Electronic Mail (pp. 742-858 ULSA) Week 8 10/18,10/20 Chapter 21 -- Network Management and Debugging (pp. 859-894 ULSA) Chapter 23 -- Web Hosting (pp. 956-979 ULSA) (midterm is on 10/20) Week 9 10/25,10/27 Chapter 22 -- Security (pp. 896-954 ULSA) Chapter 24 -- Virtualization (pp. 983-1010 ULSA) Chapter 26 -- Printing (pp. 1032-1084 ULSA) Week 10 11/1,11/3 The Real World Chapter 27 -- Data Center Basics (pp. 1085-1096 ULSA) Chapter 30 -- Cooperating with Windows (pp. 1135-1161 ULSA) Week 11 11/8,11/12 Chapter 9 -- Periodic Processes (pp. 283-291 ULSA) Chapter 10 -- Backups (pp. 292-337 ULSA) Week 12 11/15,11/19 Chapter 12 -- Software Installation and Management (pp. 362-414 ULSA) Chapter 13 -- Drivers and the Kernel (pp. 415-444 ULSA) Week 13 11/29,12/1 Chapter 11 -- Syslog and Log Files (pp. 340-361 ULSA) Week 14 12/6,12/8 Chapter 29 -- Performance Analysis