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Subject Code: 14CS2044

Subject Name: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Prepared by: Mrs.Esther Daniel / Mr.B.L Radhakrishnan
Department / School: CSE/CST
Lecture
No.

Topic

1.
2.

Introducing Linux
Introducing Linux

3.

Exploring the Desktop: Linux Graphical Desktop

4.

Configuring GNOME and KDE

5.

Core Graphical Utilities

6.

Popular graphical Program

7.

Exploring the Bash Shell

8.

Shell Variables, Data Redirection, Editing Text with vi

9.

Printing from the Command Line

10.

Understanding Users and File systems -Linux Users

and Groups

11.

File Permissions

12.

Introducing the File System- Managing File Archives

13.

Understanding Text Processing- Regular Expressions

14.

Manipulating File

15.

Using sed and awk

16.

More advanced Text Editing

17.

Managing Processes Defining

18.

Managing Linux Processes

19.

Managing Memory

20.

Scheduling Process -Controlling Access to at and

crontab.

21.

Using Network Clients: Remote Login

22.

Data Services

23.

Networking and Diagnostic Tools

24.

Installing Linux: Reviewing Computers Hardware

25.

Configuring disk Space

26.

Installing Linux

Book & Page Nos.

Used for teaching
Nick Wells
Nick Wells
Nick Wells
65
Nick Wells
72
Nick Wells
84
Nick Wells
90
Nick Wells
121
Nick Wells
121-130
Nick Wells
140
Nick Wells
163
Nick Wells
170
Nick Wells
179
Nick Wells
200
Nick Wells
204
Nick Wells
211
Nick Wells
219
Nick Wells
236
Nick Wells
251
Nick Wells
262
Nick Wells
273
Nick Wells
295
Nick Wells
302
Nick Wells
312
Nick Wells
341
Nick Wells
352
Nick Wells
366

Topic
No.

(2005) Pg.1-38
(2005) Pg.1-38
(2005) Pg. 57-

Ch 1
Ch 1

(2005) Pg. 66-

Ch 2

(2005) Pg. 76-

Ch 2

(2005) Pg. 85-

Ch 2

(2005) Pg. 110-

Ch 2

Ch 3

(2005) Pg. 110-

Ch 3

(2005) Pg. 131-

Ch 3

(2005) Pg. 155-

Ch 4

(2005) Pg. 166-

Ch 4

(2005) Pg. 171-

Ch 4

(2005) Pg. 197-

Ch 5

(2005) Pg. 201-

Ch 5

(2005) Pg. 205-

Ch 5

(2005) Pg. 214(2005) Pg. 235-

Ch 5
Ch 6

(2005) Pg. 237-

Ch 6

(2005) Pg. 252-

Ch 6

(2005) Pg. 263-

Ch 6

(2005) Pg. 289-

Ch 7

(2005) Pg. 295-

Ch 7

(2005) Pg. 303-

Ch 7

(2005) Pg. 328-

Ch 8

(2005) Pg. 341-

Ch 8

(2005) Pg. 352-

Ch 8

Date
Taught

27.

Kickstart Installations

28.

Understanding System initialization: Hardware

Initialization

29.

Configuring Boot Loaders

30.

init and its scripts

31.

Controlling Services

32.

Managing Packages

33.

Updating the System

34.

Understanding the file system

35.

Managing Users: Creating and managing user accounts

36.

Complex File Permissions

37.

User Security Issues

38.

Configuring Networks: Configuring Linux

Networking

39.

DHCP Server

40.

printing services

41.

System and Kernel Management: Linux system back up

42.

System Logs

43.
44.
45.
46.
47.

Exploring, Configuring and updating Kernel

Components
Writing Shell Scripts
Writing Shell Scripts
Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting
Advanced Configuration and Troubleshooting

Nick Wells
371
Nick Wells
407
Nick Wells
411
Nick Wells
415
Nick Wells
420
Nick Wells
438
Nick Wells
442
Nick Wells
462
Nick Wells
492
Nick Wells
498
Nick Wells
509
Nick Wells
535
Nick Wells
538
Nick Wells
552
Nick Wells
594
Nick Wells
605
Nick Wells
617
Nick Wells
660
Nick Wells
660
Nick Wells
730
Nick Wells
730

(2005) Pg. 367-

Ch 8

(2005) Pg. 402-

Ch 9

(2005) Pg. 408-

Ch 9

(2005) Pg. 412-

Ch 9

(2005) Pg. 416-

Ch 9

(2005) Pg. 434-

Ch 10

(2005) Pg. 439-

Ch 10

(2005) Pg. 443-

Ch 10

(2005) Pg. 478-

Ch 11

(2005) Pg. 493-

Ch 11

(2005) Pg. 499-

Ch 11

(2005) Pg. 522-

Ch 12

(2005) Pg. 535-

Ch 12

(2005) Pg. 539-

Ch 12

(2005) Pg. 576-

Ch 13

(2005) Pg. 595-

Ch 13

(2005) Pg. 606-

Ch 13

(2005) Pg. 635-

Ch 14

(2005) Pg. 635-

Ch 14

(2005) Pg. 677-

Ch 15

(2005) Pg. 677-

Ch 15

References Books:

Nicholas Wells, The Complete Guide to LINUX System Administration, Indian Edition, Cengage
Learning, 2005.

Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein , Linux administration handbook, Second Edition, Pearson
Education, 2007, ISBN 0-13-148004-9.

Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic, Linux System Administration, OReilly Media Inc., First Edition, 2007,
ISBN -13:978-0-596-00952-6.

Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley,Unix and Linux System Administration handbook,
Fourth Edition 2010, Pearson Education, ISBN 0132117363

Terry Collings, Kurt Wall, Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration, Third Edition, Wiley
India(P) Ltd., Reprint 2008, ISBN 81-265-0655-5