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These classnotes are depreciated. As of 2005, I no longer teach the classes. Notes will remain online for legacy purposes
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Instructor: Sam Hart (hart@physics.arizona.edu)
The general homepage for this course is http://www.geekcomix.com/classnotes/
This course will provide the student with the skills of basic system and network administration within the Unix environment. We will start with basic concepts that apply to all varieties of Unix, and will proceed to implementation and use of popular network technologies and administration tools. Finally, basic Unix security concepts will be discussed. Students are encouraged to have access to a computer (laptop or desktop) on which they can load Linux in order to practice the techniques between classes. Linux will be used as the learning environment in the classroom, but techniques applicable to all Unix variants will be emphasized.
These classnotes are organized by topic. More often than not, these topics will also coincide with particular days in the class. The topics will be presented in the following order:
DAY ONE
Chapters 1, 5, 8 13, 14, 16
- Roles and of a Unix Systems Administrator
- /Principles and Ethics
- /Typical Configuration Format
- /Devices, Processes, Files, and Daemons Oh my
- /Resources available to the Linux System Administrator
- /Installation
- /Preparation
- /Filesystem Choices
- /RedHat Linux Installation
- /Networking
- /Networking Interfaces Under Linux
- /IP Addresses
- /Subnetting
- /Networking Configuration
- /The hosts file
- /ARP Tables and Routing
- /ifconfig and netstat
- /Bringing up networking manually
- Routing Daemons and Utilities
- /routed and gated
- /iproute and iproute2
DAY TWO
Chapters 3, 6, 22
- Basic Administration Tasks
- /User Accounts and Groups
- PROJECT: /Populate your server
- /The init process
- /Maintaining Filesystems
- /The fstab file
- /Simple Task Management
- Basic Network Servers and Technologies
- Apache - Web server configuration
- /What is Apache?
- /Apache configuration
- /Apache control
- PROJECT: /Add documentation to your web server
- PROJECT: /Adding Apache to the boot process
DAY THREE
Chapters 18, 19, 27
- More Network Servers and Technologies
- SAMBA - Sharing files with Windows
- /What Is SAMBA?
- /SAMBA configuration
- /SAMBA control
- PROJECT: /Setting up shares by office
- PROJECT: /Setting up shares to web
- Mail Server Technologies
- /How does mail get delivered?
- Postfix - Mail server configuration
- /What is Posftix?
- /Postfix configuration
- /Postfix configuration II
- /Postfix control
- PROJECT: /Enable each users mail using PINE
- /Introduction to GNUMailman
- PROJECT: /Setup mailing lists
- Sendmail Overview
- /Sendmail Introduction
- /Sendmail Configuration
- /Sendmail Gotchas
DAY FOUR
Chapters 2, 5, 8
- UNIX choices
- /Types of OSes
- /Choice is good
- Dual booting
- /Concepts of Dual Booting
- /What is FreeBSD?
- /FreeBSD Installation
- /RedHat Linux Installation
- PROJECT: /Installing an Application from source
- /Grub configuration
- FreeBSD: /Introduction to FreeBSD ports
- X server
- /What Is XFree86?
- /XFree86 configuration
- /XFree86 control
- PROJECT: /Fix XFree86s resolution under FreeBSD
- PROJECT: /Defuglify the fonts under Red Hat
- /XFree86 and remote connections
- PROJECT: /Running X applications on neighbors computer
- FUN PROJECT: /Setup and install MPlayer
DAY FIVE
Chapters 10, 11
- Debian based
- /What is Debian?
- /Debian Structure
- /Debian Management
- /What is Knoppix?
- PROJECT: /Boot Knoppix and explore existing system
- Backup and Redundancy
- /What is Software RAID?
- /Software RAID Configuration
- PROJECT: /Install Knoppix on a Software RAID
- /Concepts Of chroot
- /Kernel Recompilation
- PROJECT: /Recompile your kernel in your new Debian install and reboot
- PROJECT: /Install nano and defuglify the fonts under Debian
- General Backup Techniques
- /Traditional UNIX Backup Tools
- PROJECT: /Backup your Home filesystem
/Extras
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