CSPP 501: Systems Administration

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Systems Administration: January 18, 2000

  • Revision Control: I've found that many students are unaware of the tools that UNIX users use for keeping track of versions of a text file. This is a short discussion of one tool, RCS.
  • Make: Make is another popular tool, one that will help with many of your classes. We will use make later on in the course, but it is presented here to help you get used to the UNIX environment.
  • Supervisor Applications
  • Booting and Init: Booting is one of the most complicated parts of a UNIX system. These notes try to describe some of the process, and focus on the part that we will interact with most.