CS183
Unix System Administration
Spring ‘08
WeeSan Lee <weesan@cs.ucr.edu>
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~weesan/cs183/
WARNING!
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Unix/Linux can be additive
Can’t win a cash prize and a laptop 
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http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pw
n-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up
Lots of MS jokes
Lots of fun 
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Who are Unix System Administrators?
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Those who tell you to reboot your machine?
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1st line technical supports
Those who manage their own machines
running heavy duty OS without Internet
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Windows users who fear the virus infection from
the Internet
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Course Information
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10-week course
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Lecture
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3 lectures / week *
1 lab / week
MWF 5:10 - 6:00pm @ WAT 2240
Office hours: Thursday 1-3pm @ Bourns B246 or by appt.
Lab
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TW 2:10pm - 5:00pm @ Engr2 135
TA: Glenn M. Bernstein & Inci Cetindil
Office hours: TBA
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Course Information (cont)
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Textbook
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Reference (optional)
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Linux Administration Handbook (2nd edition)
By Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein
ISBN: 0131480049
Programming Perl (3rd edition)
By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
ISBN: 0596000278
Moodle (https://moodle.cs.ucr.edu/)
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Topics
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Linux on a single machine
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Installation and kernel recompilation
Boot and shutdown sequence
User account management
Process monitor and management
File systems
Package management
Periodic processes (crontab)
Security
Logging
Backups
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Topics (cont)
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Linux on multiple machines
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TCP/IP networking
Routing
HTTP, Web Cache, FTP, DNS, SMTP, NIS (Yellow
Page), NFS, Samba, SSH, …
Security
Misc
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Shell (Bash) programming
Perl programming
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Grading
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Labs
Programming Assignments (2)
Final Project
Pop Quizzes & Attendance
Final
Total:
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I reserve the right to make any changes!
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40%
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Labs
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Reports are in HTML format
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Objective
Introduction
Procedures
Conclusion
Further Reading
Glossary
Questions & Answers
Will be graded based on the quality of the report
Sample report
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http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~weesan/cs183/lab_report_sample.html
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Labs (cont)
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Collect as many outputs & screenshots as possible
during the lab
Feel free to google answers for the questions, but
make sure to paraphrase them
Due on Friday before midnight (11:55pm)
Late turn-ins will be marked down 20% for 1st day,
and additional 30% the day after
For example, max. score is:
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100% on Fri by 11:55pm
80% on Sat
50% on Sun
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Programming Assignments
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PA 1 - Shell programming
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Poor-man package management
Given at the beginning of the 4th week
Due on Friday of the same week
PA 2 - Perl programming
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Web log analysis/accounting
Given at the beginning of the 6th week
Due on Friday of the same week
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Final Project
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Individual or group of 2
Related to Unix System Administration
Proposal
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1 page (at most) in PDF
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Problem description
Proposed solution
Expected deliverables
Latex & bibtex
Due on the beginning of 5th week
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Final Project (cont)
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Report
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4 pages (at least) in PDF
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Introduction
Related work
Technical details
Result
Conclusion
References
Latex & bibtex
Due in last class (6/6)
8-10 mins in-class presentation
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About 6-8 slides
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Final Project Examples
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Automation
 Kick-start install
 Package management/update
Scripting
 Web front-end of user account management
Network
 Web cache performance enhancement using multiple network
interfaces
Security
 How to setup a secure network?
Misc
 Asterisk PBX (http://www.asterisk.org/)
 Linux PVR (http://www.mythtv.org/)
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No Cheating!
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Cheating will result 0% on the assignment or
‘F’ in this class
So get your hands dirty
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Do your own lab
Write your own report
Paraphrase in your lab report
Having said that, I encourage group
study/discussion, but …
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Don’t read/debug somebody else scripts
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Bottom Line
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No more calls to the
technical support
Geek-only party
conversation
Power-Linux users
Resume looks good
Get a job easier!
Homepage looks
professional
Know some hackings
Will be able to do this
Have fun 
Source: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
Question?
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