Notes

Topics in square brackets ("[" and "]") are last semester's notes. They should be close to what we'll discuss this semester, but I do usually update the notes before covering them in class. You can check the "Source Modified" time at the bottom of each page to find out when it was modified.

• Introduction
• Booting and Shutting Down
• [Making a boot floppy for the lab machines]
• Rootly Powers
• Processes
• The Unix Filesystem
• Users
• Bourne Shell Programming
• Periodic Processes (cron)
• Log Files
• TCP/IP and Routing
• Network Hardware
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• [Network File System (NFS)]
• [Electronic Mail]
• [Security]
• Final exam review
• Policies and Politics