Beginning Unix System Administration Decal
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Announcements
- 2008.12.10: Class is finished! Any missing/late
homework/labs need to be turned in as soon as possible before the grade
deadline (will be posted here as soon as we find out). Thanks for a great
semester, have a good winter break, and hope to see you in the
intermediate/advanced sections!
- 2008.12.01: Network connectivity has been
restored on the vservers.
- 2008.11.12: Project specs are posted
below. Note the dates in the timeline. If you have questions, email us
and we will address them in clas.
- 2008.11.05: It appears that no one has
successfully completed the ganglia homework assignment yet. If you are having
troubles setting up ganglia, let us know. Here's a hint: During compilation,
ganglia will complain about no being able to find a file apr.h. .h
are C header files that belong to some development library package. In this case,
you would search for some library package related to apr. Check out 'apt-cache
search libapr' and find the developmental header package.
- 2008.10.28: OCF mail is slow at the
moment, please also include our alternative email addresses in your
submissions: JonathanRChu@b.e, calvin@b.e
- 2008.10.25: After our unexpected dowtime when
our building had a scheduled power outage, we forgot to boot up the vservers.
Everything is back up and running now.
- 2008.10.20: Week 4 slides and week 6 materials
(slides to come) have been posted. From the intermediate class website, a Linux cheat
sheet may be helpful for you.
- 2008.10.13: Week 5 notes, slides, hw, and lab
posted.
- 2008.10.06: Week 4 notes and lab posted.
- 2008.10.04: On Week 3 Lab Section 3, you might
find that you do not have enough quota disk space on inst. There are three
solutions: 1) If you have a home linux box, you should complete that section
using your home box. 2) If you have an OCF account, you should complete that
senction on your OCF account. 3) Run the command: /share/b/bin/mkhometmpdir.
This will create a tempororary directory at /home/tmp/USERNAME. Use that
directory to complete the lab section.
- 2008.09.29: Week 1 slides, week 3 notes,
homework, and lab have been posted to the website. Remember to sign up for an
OCF account this week. It takes about 1 week to create accounts so start
early! -Update: week 3 slides available
- 2008.09.08: Prospective students should be able
to enroll through Tele-Bears
using the given CCNs: 26436 (lower), 26631 (upper). The class is two (2)
units. Any questions regarding the course should be emailed to the
facilitators or sysadmin-decal@ocf.
- 2008.08.28: We are still obtaining CCN's. If
you are sure you are taking this course, you can begin by obtaining an OCF
account. Note: Since the lab isn't open yet, print out the form,
fill it in, and come by during staff hours or
email staff@ocf.berkeley.edu to
schedule an appointment.
Schedule
Extra Links
Project Groups
Course Information
Time: Monday, 5:30-7:30pm
Location: 320 Soda
Facilitators: Calvin Ardi and Jonathan Chu
Office Hours: See OCF Staff Hours
Enrollment: 2 units
- Lower Division: 26436
- Upper Division: 26631
This course is open for students with little or no prior Unix experience. It
is our goal that at the end of this course, you will be comfortable and
familiar with the command line interface in order to use and administer Unix
operating systems as well as setting up a basic web server.
More Course Information
- Attendance is mandatory.
- There will be weekly homework assignments, graded on a P/NP basis.
- A final project will be given in lieu of an exam; failure to
complete will result in a NP.
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How much time should I expect to spend on this DeCal?
The workload for this beginning section should not be hard and I expect
that it will not consume too much of your time. Aside from attending
lecture, working on the labs and homework should take around an hour at
most and work, in general, will ease up during midterms as facilitators are
students, too. It is entirely up to you as to how much you want to spend
working on the projects and labs; there are always opportunities to expand
upon what has been taught and the easiest way to learn Unix system
administration is through doing, not just reading.
Resources
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