Lecture Notes

Week 1

• Monday Introduction
• Tuesday: group and lab setup
• Wednesday The UNIX filesystem
• Thursday UNIX processes and virtual memory

  diagrams (in Postscript): virtual memory system schematic, page swapout, page swapin

Week 2

• Monday RCS (Revision Control System), system installation, disk partitioning, Unix directory layout, important configuration files
• Tuesday UNIX shutdown and reboot, system initialization, change management
• Wednesday: 4th of July holiday
• Thursday TCP/IP protocols and concepts

Example system installation document

Week 3

• Monday How processes are started, shell scripting basics
• Tuesday Security basics

  diagram (Postscript): stack buffer overrun

• Wednesday Security strategies
• Thursday Building software from source

Week 4

• Monday/Tuesday Internet mail and Sendmail

  diagram (Postscript): Mail system architecture

• Tuesday/Wednesday Web service and Apache
• Thursday Spam and mail service

Week 5

• Monday User account management
• Tuesday UNIX user accounts and shell configuration
• Wednesday Quotas and resource limits
• Thursday UNIX text-processing utilities and scripting

Week 6

• Monday UNIX logging facilities
• Tuesday TCP wrappers, cron
• Wednesday Packet filtering and firewalls
• Thursday Network security

Week 7

• Monday Managing multiple hosts
• Tuesday DNS (Domain Name Service)
• Wednesday, Thursday: System emergency days!

Week 8

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday