Email – jtoone@cs.uah.edu

Text: Linux Administration A Beginner’s Guide

Fourth Edition

Authors: Steve Shah and Wale Soyinka

Class Hours: Monday and Wednesday 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Office Hours: Monday through Thursday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM and by appointment

Class# Date Lecture Assigned Reading / Exam

1 5/28 Summary of Linux Distributions and comparison to

Windows 2003 – Installing a Linux server Chapters 1&2

2 6/2 Software Installations – Managing Users Chapters 3&4

3 6/4 The UNIX Command Line Chapter 5

4 6/9 Booting, Shutting Down, LILO & GRUB, and File Systems Chapters 6&7

5 6/11 Core System Services – Compiling the Kernel Chapters 8&9

6 6/16 First Exam (no lecture) Exam 1

7 6/18 The Proc File Systems – Administering TCP/IP Networks Chapters 10&11

8 6/23 Network Configuration – Configuring the Firewall Chapters 12&13

9 6/25 Network and System Security Chapters 14&15

10 6/30 Configuring DNS and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Servers Chapters 16&17

11 7/2 Setup and Management of Apache (web) and SMTP (mail) Servers Chapters 18&19

12 7/7 Post Office Protocol (POP), IMAP, and Secure Shell (SSH) Chapters 20&21

13 7/9 Second Exam (no lecture) Exam 2

14 7/14 Network File System (NFS) Administration Chapter 22

15 7/16 Administering Network Information Services (NIS) and Samba Chapters 23&24

16 7/21 Configuring LDAP and Printing Services (CUPS) Chapters 25&26

17 7/23 Configuring DHCP and managing Backups Chapters 27&28

18 7/28 Last day of project presentations

19 7/30 Friday 8:00 – 10:30 AM Final Exam

Grading Policy

Exam One 25%

Exam Two 25%

Final Exam 25%

Lab Assignments 25%

100%

Lab Assignments

Students will be grouped in teams for the lab assignments. All assignments will deal with the design and implementation of a UNIX client / server architecture for a Domain.

Attendance

You are expected to attend each class! If you must be absent, it is your responsibility to make up any missed work at the next class meeting.

Academic Misconduct will be dealt with in a manner according to the Code of Conduct outlined in the UAH Student Handbook.

Notice: Any student with a disability that will require special attention or accommodation should inform the instructor as soon as possible, preferably within the first week of class.