Greg Boyd, Instructor
Dept. Of Computer Science
City College of San Francisco
gboyd@ccsf.edu

Office hours this semester: Tues and Thurs 3:00-3:30 and 6:30-7pm and Weds 5:30-6pm in Batmale 413

(For book information, see the Policy Statement (below) for the course in question)

Lecture Course Information Fall 2012

Title:	Linux System Administration CS260A (Schedule is online) Course Information Lecture Notes (under construction for Fall 2012)	Introduction to Unix/Linux CS160A Syllabus (not ready)	Unix/Linux Shell Scripting CS160B (online materials not ready for Fall 2012) Syllabus Lecture Notes
Synopsis:	This course meets weekly in Fall 2012. You should read the Course Information and Policy Statement prior to attending. This course has been completely rewritten this semester to prepare students for the Redhat RHCSA exam. This course has an accompanying set of lecture notes as well as a highly recommended text. The text is used for both this class and for the following Network Services course. You must attend the first meeting in Batmale 413 on Weds. August 15 6-10pm to be enrolled in this course. Basic System Administration Topics include: the job of the system administrator basic administration tools to compare and examine files and gather information on the system extended permissions getting help controlling root access using virtual machines startup and shutdown process control and monitoring ssh and keys periodic processes filesystem types, creation and maintenance; logical volumes, encrypted filesystems the automounter archiving utilities and rsync creating and managing users and groups and using non-local authentication sources introduction to security issues: PAM and SELinux package installation and installation of Virtual Machines Configuring networking information and default ftp, http and NFS servers shell scripts for system administration Although NFS and NIS are used, this is not a course in Network Administration. This course is taught on Linux. This course relies on good shell scripting skills at the level of CS160B.	NOTE: CS160A is a four-hour class (2 hours for 1/2 semester) An introduction to Unix designed for students who will continue on in the Unix series or who will need to use Unix after transferring to a four-year institution. Topics include: accessing Unix transferring files between Unix systems use of the editor vi the commandline interface and syntax standard input/output command line editing the Unix filesystem: navigating names and types paths: absolute and relative inodes and directories managing files and directories: creating removing copying links: hard and symbolic find permissions text file utilities: displaying horizontal and vertical slicing searching using regular expressions sorting processes This course will be taught on a combination of Unix and Linux.	NOTE: CS160B is a four-hour class (2 hours for 1/2 semester) An introduction to shell scripting using the bash shell. Topics include: expansion of basic Unix emphasizing areas important to shell scripting. basics of writing and documenting shell scripts. variables: environment, local,  standard, the ${} operators command substitution arithmetic expansion quoting rules command line arguments command exit status if/then, test, &&  || basename and dirname standard I/O loops functions advanced topics This course is for students who intend to continue in Unix. It is targeted to prepare students for Unix/Linux System Administration. This course will be taught on a combination of Unix and Linux.
Times:	W 6-10pm Batmale 413	Batmale 413. Ends 10/13:     Sec 001: TR 1-3     Sec 591: TR 7-9	Batmale 413. Begins Tuesday 10/18:     Sec 001: TR 1-3     Sec 591: TR 7-9
Links:	Policy Statement (not ready) Course Information (partial) Lecture Notes (partially ready)	Policy Statement  Syllabus	Policy Statement Syllabus Lecture Notes