ITSC 1458 Unix System Administration Home Page
Welcome to Unix System Administration. This course will be conducted as shown in the syllabus unless circumstances dictate a change. As you are all knowledgeable Unix users at this point, there is opportunity for the class to provide some direction in the topics to be covered, as long as the listed course goals are also met. Also please note that there are scripting standards for this class. Your scripts are expected to conform to this standard.
Students enrolled in Unix System Administration are nearing the end of their formal education in Unix at North Lake. It won't be too long until you are are a computer professional, employed to maintain Unix systems. When this happens, I will not be around to tell you how to do things. You will need to know how to solve your own problems, using the resources available to you. In order to excel in your career, you must learn how to solve problems yourself. When you run into problems in class (and you will, I promise :-) I will most likely tell you to read the man pages and search the Internet for advice. If this doesn't meet your expectations, you are in the wrong class. If you learn nothing else from this class, I hope you learn how to continue to learn and how to solve your own problems.
This page contains the slides I use in class. They are saved as Adobe Acrobat .pdf files and were formatted using Adobe Acrobat version 5.0. If you need the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat reader, you can download it for free from: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
The slides are normally printed two to a page so we don't kill too many trees :) and organized in groups by week. The topics in each week's slides are the same as shown in the course syllabus. I will update this site weekly with the latest set of lecture slides, so feel free to visit regularly.
If you need a refresher in the basics of vi, sed, Regular Expressions, or AWK, intros and command summaries are available here.
I've gathered a set of Unix/Linux resource sites that may be useful. These links also provide access to historical sites for those interested in the history of Unix.
To download these slides to your computer, right click on the file you want and select "Save Link As..." if you are using Netscape or right click and select "Save Target As..." if you are using Internet Explorer.
| Week | Slides and Other Reading Assignments |
| 1 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 2 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 3 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
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| 5 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 6 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 7 |
Notes
part 1
(6 slides per page)
Notes part 2 (6 slides per page) Midterm |
| 8 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 9 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 10 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 11 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 12 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 13 | Notes (6 slides per page) |
| 14 |
Notes
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Final exam in class |
Need to contact me? You can reach me at krf@clyde.dcccd.edu.