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HANDS-ON
UNIX/Linux System Administration I: Essentials
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San Francisco, Mon. June 3, 6:30 pm, 10 meetings
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- 10 meetings
- June 3 to Aug. 5: Mon., 6:30-9:30 pm
- San Francisco: Room 812, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $795 (EDP 155408)
Marcelo Carvalho, M.A., is a data network, voice communications and software application engineer at Usabound, where he manages the company's servers, Voiceover Internet Protocol (VoIP) and data networks across the United States and Europe. He has been teaching UC Extension courses since 2000 on UNIX, shell programming, C language and Perl programming. He served as technical reviewer for the third edition of the best-selling UNIX Made Easy (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media). Carvalho also developed a textbook on Perl programming for his UC Berkeley Extension course.
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X422.8 (2 semester units in EECS)
Cover the bases and mechanisms of UNIX system administration. Starting with the key concepts, system administration duties, system organization, system configuration and system startup, the course moves on to file-system architecture, device and system configuration, and process management. Exercises covering these aspects of system administration are an integral part of the course. Although the course covers general system administration, prepare to discuss variations among operating systems.
Prerequisites: A general understanding of UNIX operating system externals and command interfaces and access to a UNIX or Linux system
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