CS 5780 -- Systems Administration

Instructor: Sanjiv K. Bhatia

Prerequisites CS 4760 || ( CS 4770 && MIS 6836 )
I'll assume that you know vi and sh. If you don't, now is a good time to learn those two.
Textbooks
Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and Hein. Unix System Administration Handbook (3rd ed.), Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Frisch. Essential System Administration (3rd ed.), O'Reilly, 2002.
Limoncelli and Hogan. The Practice of System and Network Administration. Addison Wesley, 2002. (Used as Reference)

/objectives

/etc/policy The grade will be based on projects, a class presentation (30 minutes plus report), and two tests. Each project must be meticulously documented and clearly identify its purpose, author, and date. Tests are noncomprehensive but may have some overlap of material from one test to the next. The distribution of grades will be as follows:

Projects 40%
Two tests 20% each
Class presentation 20%

Anyone desiring an EXC grade after October 22, 2004 must be passing the course at that point to get EXC.

/etc/exam_dates

Test 1 October 13, 2004
Test 2 December 06, 2004
There is no final exam. Old tests are available.

/etc/misc

Failure to hand in any assignment will result in an automatic zero for that assignment. If some student is unable to hand in an assignment by the deadline, he/she must discuss it with me before the deadline. If you are found copying an assignment from another student or internet, you get a zero for that assignment automatically.

If you need special accommodation for any reason, including disability, please see me in the first two weeks of class.

You will have card key access to the lab across from my office where you will be able to use two Linux machines to play with as root. These machines are off the network.

/etc/email

Any unsigned email and email not in plain text will go unanswered by me. Please do not send me any attachments without talking to me first.

The class email list is set up as cs5780g1@cs.umsl.edu. You can add your favorite email address to this list by sending an email to listserv@cs.umsl.edu with the following message in the body:

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You can unsubscribe from the list by sending a message to the same address with the body being:

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Code to illustrate some points

Syllabus and initial handout in PDF

Class-related links


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