| Day | Date | Topic | Readings |
| Mon | Jan 14 | Introduction: What does a sysadmin do? | LAH 1; PSNA Preface, 1; (CR 1) |
| Wed | Jan 16 | Desktops, servers, and services | PSNA 3-5 |
| Thu | Jan 17 | LAB 1: OS Installation, Desktop and Unix Commands | (CR 2-5, 8-10) |
| Mon | Jan 21 | Finish Services; System Startup and Shutdown | LAH 2; (CR 2, 27portions) |
| Wed | Jan 23 | Printing | LAH 23; PSNA 24; (CR 26) |
| Thu | Jan 24 | LAB 2: Emacs; Printing; Bash | (CR 4portions, 8) |
| Mon | Jan 28 | Disks, partitions, and filesystems | |
| Wed | Jan 30 | Finish partitions and filesystems. | LAH 4, 8; (CR 8,9, 27portions) |
| Thu | Jan 31 | LAB 3: Disks, partitions and filesystems | |
| Mon | Feb 4 |
Processes Accounts |
LAH 5,7; PSNA 25; (CR 30, 31) LAH 3,6; (CR 28) |
| Wed | Feb 6 | Finish Accounts | |
| Thu | Feb 7 | LAB 4: More partitioning and filesystems, creating accounts, cron | LAH 8 |
| Mon | Feb 11 |
Namespaces Monitoring and Logging |
PSNA 8; LAH 10; PSNA 22; (CR 27portions) |
| Wed | Feb 13 | Debugging, Fix Once | PSNA 15, 16; LAH 19portions, 30portions |
| Thu | Feb 14 | LAB 5: Logging, intro to Perl | |
| Mon | Feb 18 | HOURLY EXAM 1 | |
| Wed | Feb 19 | The Domain Name System | LAH 15; (CR 36) |
| Thu | Feb 20 | LAB 6: DNS | |
| Mon | Feb 25 | Networking | LAH 12; (CR 5, 15, 19?, 35, 37) |
| Wed | Feb 27 | Network Architecture | LAH 14, 19; PSNA 21, 7, 27 |
| Thu | Feb 28 | LAB 7: Networking, Apache, CGI scripting | LAH 21; PSNA 29; (CR 23) |
| Mon | Mar 3 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | |
| Wed | Mar 5 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | |
| Thu | Mar 6 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | |
| Mon | Mar 10 | Guest: Bryan Hodgson (CSE Mail System) | LAH 18; PSNA 23; (CR 25) |
| Wed | Mar 12 | NFS | LAH 16; (CR 38portions) |
| Thu | Mar 13 | LAB 8: NFS and Automounting | |
| Mon | Mar 17 | Electronic Mail; Daemons | LAH 29; (CR 21) |
| Wed | Mar 19 | Installation and maintenance | LAH 11; PSNA 17-20, 28; (CR 29) |
| Thu | Mar 20 | LAB 9: Sendmail and Squid | (CR 24, 25portions) |
| Mon | Mar 24 | Supporting multiple platforms | LAH 26; (CR 39) |
| Wed | Mar 26 | Data Centers; Disaster Recovery |
LAH 24; PSNA 6 LAH pages 938-942; PSNA 10; |
| Thu | Mar 27 | LAB 10: Kernel modules, AFS | LAH 28; (CR 32) |
| Mon | Mar 31 | HOURLY EXAM 2 | |
| Wed | Apr 2 | Guest: Brad Askins (Performance Analysis) | LAH 25 |
| Thu | Apr 3 | LAB 11: Firewalls and NAT | LAH 12portions, 20portions; (CR 20) |
| Fri | Apr 4 | HPC Day | |
| Mon | Apr 7 | Virtualization (Greg Bosch) | (CR 33) |
| Wed | Apr 9 | Finish Disaster Recovery; NIS | LAH 17; (CR 38portions) |
| Thu | Apr 10 | LAB 12: Subversion | LAH 11portions |
| Mon | Apr 14 | Internationalization (Chao Gao) | |
| Wed | Apr 16 | Finish NIS; Backups | LAH 9; PSNA 26; (CR 34) |
| Thu | Apr 17 | LAB 13: NIS | |
| Mon | Apr 21 | Finish Backups | |
| Wed | Apr 23 | Ethics | LAH 30; PSNA 12 |
| Thu | Apr 24 | LAB 14:
Backups
Return drives |
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| Fri | May 2 | FINAL EXAM 8-11am in PL258 | |