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12TH SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '98) - Dec 6-11, 1998 - Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
 
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S10   Introduction to UNIX Administration
Peter Galvin, Corporate Technologies,Inc.

Who should attend: Computer-literate students interested in learning UNIX administration. Some background using UNIX will be a plus.

This tutorial is designed to teach UNIX administration skills to those who are experienced with computers but new to UNIX administration. The course covers all of the essential system administration topics, and stresses professional methods of administration. It uses Solaris as the example operating system when exploring detailed examples.

Course Outline:

-    The role of System Administration
-    The UNIX file system
-    User authorization and control
-    System startup and shutdown
-    Boot process and start-up files
-    Installation
*    Installation from CD
*    Jumpstart
*    Patches
*    Installing layered software

-    File system backups
-    System tuning and process control
-    Configuration and devices
-    Devices
*    Device naming
*    Device creation
*    Troubleshooting SCSI problems

-    Admintool
*    Printing
*    User management
*    Terminal configuration

-    Networking, IP configuration
-    NFS
-    Security
-    User services - mail, print, data transfer
-    Monitor, manage, troubleshoot
-    Performance monitoring tools
 


 Peter Galvin  (S10, M7is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, Inc. and was the systems manager for Brown University's computer science department. He has written articles for Byte and other magazines, is security columnist for SunWorld, and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts texbook. As a consultant and trainer, Peter has taught tutorials in security and system administration and given talks at many conferences.
 


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