COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

PIC 197, WINTER 2002

INTRODUCTION TO UNIX^® SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

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MAIN LECTURE:

• Instructor: Fedor A. Andrianov.
• Web Page: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~fedandr/
• Class meets: MWF, 2:00p - 2:50p in MS 5118.
• Office hours:
  • MWF, 1:00p - 1:50p, in MS 5338.
  • And also by appointment.

TEXTBOOKS:

• [1] UNIX^® Online Reference Manuals (see also GNU man pages);
• [2] E.Nemeth, G.Snyder, S.Seebass, T.R.Hein "UNIX^® System Administration Handbook, 3ed."

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE:

• System Essentials:
  • Shells and Scripts;
  • File Systems Tree;
  • Process Management.
• Basic Administration:
  • User Management;
  • Device Management;
  • Syslog and Log Files.
• Networking:
  • Protocols and Services;
  • Practical Configuration;
  • System Security Issues.
• UNIX Esoterica, Magic, Daemons ...