Unix Systems Administration Notes

This contains links to information relevant to the course lectures.

Note that some of these notes may contain pictures in Postscript. If you are using Netscape as a viewer from departmental machines, you will need a file called .mailcap in your home directory with the entry

application/postscript; ghostview %s

Contents:

• Documentation
• Booting and Shutting Down
• Superuser powers
• The Filesystem
• Adding New Users
• Processes
• Devices and Drivers
• Installing a Disk
• Periodic Processes
• Log files
• Kernel Configuration
• TCP/IP and Routing
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• The Network File System (NFS)
• Internet
• Sendmail

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• Network Management

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• Security
• Daemons
• Backups
• WWW maintenance (*)
• SLIP and PPP (*)
• Usenet News (*)
• Printing (*)
• UUCP (*)