Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Computer Science |
Grao en Enxeñaría Informática |
Subjects |
Operating Systems Administration |
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Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Operating Systems Administration | Code | 614G01047 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Optional | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction to System Administration | The role of the System Administrator Users and groups Files, processes and devices Becoming superuser Basic system administration commands Different UNIXes |
Booting and Installing the Operating System | Selecting and preparing installation media The boot process Preparing the disks. Basic disk partitioning Sharing disks among O.S.s Boot loaders |
Basic TCP Networking | Basic network configuration Network interface aliasing Manipulating routes inetd configuration: tcpwrappers |
Managing users and groups | Managing user acounts Administrative tools for managing users Managing groups User autentification with PAM User autentification with LDAP |
Processes and software packages | Managing and monitoring processes Tracing system calls Process privileges and priorities The /proc filesystem Signals Software packages: packages and ports Administering software packages and installing software |
Devices, disks and filesystems | Devices and device files. Adding support for devices. Kernel modules Organisation of the UNIX file system. Managing disks. Partitioning schemes Creating and accesing filesystems Managing volumes. RAID Encrypting filesystems Introduction to the ZFS filesystem |
Automating administrative tasks | Shell scripting Monitoring system: logs Schedulling execution of tasks: the cron and at commands Starting and stopping system services Initialization files and boot scripts |
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