92.316 UNIX System Administration

Brian O'Neill, Instructor

This course discusses the administration of a UNIX system which has been installed on generic hardware. It avoids version-specific issues, but generally follows the BSD model.

Textbook: UNIX System Administration Handbook, 2nd Edition, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein. Prentice Hall 1995.

Course Information

Assignments

Miscellaneous

Grades

You can get your current numerical grades by logging in to the UNIX system, and typing "~oneill/92.316/f98scores". If you are using a shell where "~" doesn't work, type "/usr/cs/manager/oneill/92.316/f98scores".

Scripts

All scripts being turned in as assignments MUST be written in standard BSD or SysV Bourne Shell. BASH and KSH have extentions and are more lax about syntax, and may result in scripts that will not function properly.

All scripts MUST have "#!/bin/sh" as the very first line.