CSPP 501: Systems Administration

A Picture of A Hairy Cow

Systems Administration: January 25, 2000

  • User Administration: This discussion describes the files that a UNIX system uses to control login information, including the procedure used by typical login programs (and a sample login program written in Bourne shell).
  • Software Administration: A discussion of the ways to install software, including problems with vendor packages.
  • GNU Configure: GNU configure is the method of choice for configuring a distribution of source code for install on your machines. Here is an example of a package that uses it.