System Administration (CIS-2230) Home Page

This is the home page for Peter Chapin's System Administration course for the Fall 2025 semester. Here you will find electronic versions of class handouts, homework assignments, lecture slides, and links to references. If you are a student taking Network Programming, you should bookmark this page.

The course syllabus gives an overview of the course and its content, lists course resources, and describes the grading policy and related issues.
The homework submission area and grade book are on Canvas but all other course resources are here.
I've prepared some general information on submitting assignments.
My home page contains other resources of potential interest.

Lecture Topics

2025-08-26. Course introduction and overview.
2025-08-28. Discussed Linux system architecture and demonstrated different shell programs.
2025-09-02. Discussed command line conventions, pathnames, and other basic Linux concepts.
2025-09-04. Discussed Lab #2.
2025-09-09. Introduced some shell basics.
2025-09-11. No class.

Slides

These slides are lightly adapted from those created by Steve Ruegsegger (with permission)

Lecture 01: Introduction
Lecture 02: Linux Installation (not part of this course)
Lecture 03: Getting Started
Lecture 04: Command Help
Lecture 05: Command Line
Lecture 06: Shell Environment

Labs

The lab set is summarized in the lab summary document, along with links to specific lab handouts and supporting code samples.

Resources/Articles

The Sahara setup document describes how to install the virtual machine we will be using in this class.
My document giving an overview of the Unix environment might be a useful reference.