CS469/569 - Linux and Unix Administration and Networking Spring 2022

Class Hours

Lectures are held T/Th, 11:00am - 12:15pm in A-017 Root Hall.<\p>

Office Hours

Steve Baker / Jeff Kinne's office hours: Teams in Root A-142.

Course Description

The catalog description for this course is:

"Includes installation and configuration of Unix/Linux operating system software; set-up of hardware and software for Unix/Linux networking including TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, DNS, DHCP, and Apache; Unix/Linux administration tasks including directories, users, tuning, backup, security, and networking."

In terms of depth, the course approximately 2/3 Unix/Linux administration including a small amount of Bash scripting and 1/3 networking administration. Those who have done well in CS151 should be familiar with most of the programming concepts used in this course.

Learning Outcomes

• Comprehensive overview of command line tools used by a system administrator
• More advanced bash scripting
• Ability to install and configure a Linux system
• Some Virtual Machine experience

Recommended text

Most information required for the course is available on-line. Sources that can be used for the course include the following.

• The Unix on-line manual pages (man command)
• The GNU info pages (info command)
• Wikipedia.org
• Tutorials Point:
  • Unix
  • Sed
  • Awk
  • Administration
  • Docker
  • IPv4
  • Computer Networking