CS615 - System Administration

Objective

In order to get the most our of this class, it is useful to read up on the topic of the lectures before class as well as to revisit the material after the lecture. Doing this will be part of the requirements of this class.

Note: this is not a request for you to submit whatever notes you are taking in class for yourself. Instead, the format will be as described here:

Prior to each class, please review the linked reading material and any other related documents you might find on your own. Make a note of any concepts or topics that are unclear to you, or for which you'd like to see clarification or further information.

After each class, please revisit your notes and assess your understanding. Did your questions get answered? Did new ones arise? What did you learn? Was there anything of particular interest that you came across? Share your questions or findings on the class mailing list!

File format and submission

Create a git repository for your class notes. In it, create a plain ascii text file for each lecture. Update this file twice: once before the class, and once after the class. Make sure to git commit.

The following is an illustration what your notes for the first class might look like:

Lecture 01
==========

Before class:
-------------
I carefully read the course website and syllabus.
I read chapters 01 and 02 in ``Principles of System
Administration'' as well as the first chapter of ``The
Practice of System and Network Administration''.

I came across this interesting article:
https://some.website.you.found/something-relevant.html

Open questions:
What's the difference between System Administration
and Site Reliability Engineering?

Do I need to create an AWS account for this class?

After class:
------------
Important take-away:
- get set up with AWS
- the Unix history helped me understand the difference
  between Linux and other Unix variants; I had not put
  much thought into this before
- I still need to grok the pipeline example from class
	  

Note how the text is well-formatted with blocks, paragraphs, and line breaks inserted to make it easy to read. Please follow this example.

Note also that the above is a bare minimum example; I expect more content from you, showing course preparation and reflection.

At the end of the semester, tar up the directory, including the .git files and submit the resulting file via email to jschauma@stevens.edu.

The due dates for the course notes to be submitted is 2023-05-01 18:00.

The folllowing is an example sequence of commands to create a valid submission:

cd cs615
mkdir $USER-notes
cd $USER-notes
vi 01.txt
git add 01.txt
git commit .
vi 02.txt
git add 02.txt
git commit .
...
cd ..
tar cf $USER-notes.tar $USER-notes