Unix internals and administration

Lecturer:

Jan Žďárek, Neurčen (gar.)

Tutor:

Jan Žďárek, Neurčen (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

Course provides students with internal structure of operating system UNIX and administration of basic subsystems. Students should have knowledges equivalent to X36UNX.

Requirements:

There is a required limit of the total sum of points from labs and test. Details on http://service.felk.cvut.cz/courses/X36ADU/

Syllabus of lectures:

1. UFS filesystem

2. volume management (RAID)

3. shared filesystem (NFS, automounter)

4. terminal, serial line

5. logging, system messaging (syslog)

6. process limits (resource limits, disk quotas, changed FS root)

7. virtual servers, zones

8. advanced access control (Role Based Access Control, Mandatory access control, Privileges)

9. kernel configuration and tuning

10. network services (inetd, portmap)

11. name services (DNS, NIS, LDAP)

12. remote access, SSH, ssh keys, TCP tunnel

13. firewall (IPFW, iptables)

14. automatic OS installation, software installation, automatic update

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. sparse files, links, suballocation, FS repair

2. disk mirroring

3. network shared directories

4. serial line terminal, PPP protocol

5. syslog

6. process limits

7. virtual servers

8. process access rights

9. kernel configuration and tunning

10. inetd services configuration

11. name service client and server configuration

12. ssh key management, authentication, TCP tunneling

13. firewall implementation and practice

14. OS automatic installation

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri	roomKN:E-126 Žďárek J. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1) Karlovo nám. Trnkova posluchárna K5roomKN:E-310 Žďárek J. 11:00–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Karlovo nám. Lab K310 Linux
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Computer Technology - Software Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - System Programming- structured studies (compulsory elective course, compulsory elective course, S1 recommendation)
• Computer Technology - Computer Graphics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Computer Network and Internet- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Designing Digital Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)