CS 98/198-8: Hands-On UNIX System Administration

Announcements

• (1/16) Welcome to the Sysadmin DeCal! The syllabus has been uploaded.

Essentials

The Spring 2012 Sysadmin DeCal meets on Mondays from 6-8PM in 275 Soda and is facilitated by Jordan Salter, Dara Adib, and Felix Wong. Office hours are held by appointment (don't be shy!).

We'll cover the setup and administration of a production-quality UNIX server, suitable for web/mail hosting, shared shell hosting à la the EECS Instructional servers, and the like. Topics include general UNIX proficiency (which is also useful in CS courses), the Internet infrastructure, and system administration essentials. For more details and grading policy, please see the course syllabus.

Schedule, slides, and labs

1. (1/23) Course overview; introduction to UNIX and the shell (slides, lab, survey)
2. (1/30) The file system (slides, lab)
3. (2/6) Multi-user environments (slides, lab)
4. (2/13) Compiling software; package management (compiling software slides, package management notes, lab)
5. (2/20) Academic holiday
6. (2/27) Shell scripting (slides, lab)
7. (3/5) Tricks of the trade (slides, lab, mbox file, project group signup)
8. (3/12) Server services (slides, lab)
9. (3/19) Server services, cont'd (mail slides, more slides, lab)
10. (3/26) Spring break
11. (4/2) When disaster strikes (slides, lab)
12. (4/9) Special topics
13. (4/16) Wrap up final projects
14. (4/23) Final project presentations!

Resources

Contacting the staff

If you need help, ask on Piazza or send us an email!

Piazza:

• http://piazza.com/class#spring2012/cs981988

General email:

• Anything decal related: decal at ocf.berkeley.edu

Instructor's emails:

• Jordan: jordan.salter at berkeley.edu
• Dara: daradib+decal at ocf.berkeley.edu
• Felix: waf at berkeley.edu

Connecting from home

GNU/Linux and Mac OS X users should already have SSH installed. Windows users should use PuTTY. There are a few servers you can connect to:

• cory.eecs.berkeley.edu, nova.cs.berkeley.edu, star.cs.berkeley.edu — the most popular INST SPARC Solaris login servers (use your cs198-xy class account)
• ssh.ocf.berkeley.edu — the OCF x86 Debian GNU/Linux login server (use your OCF account)
• coupdetat.ocf.berkeley.edu — the dedicated DeCal server hosted by the OCF; connect to your virtual server by SSHing first into coupdetat (use your OCF account) and then again into your virtual server

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