460-2039/02 – Administration of Operating Systems (SOS)
Gurantor department | Department of Computer Science | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. David Seidl, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. David Seidl, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2015/2016 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The goal is to introduce students to manage Unix-like operating systems, especially the operating system GNU / Linux. Teaching will focus on the management system at administrators.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
In this course discusses the basic features of the operating system GNU / Linux. Students will learn all the skills necessary to manage the operating system GNU / Linux.
Compulsory literature:
[1] COBBAUT P. Linux Fundamentals, Netsec BVBA, 2013
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Scoring tasks in the exercises.
E-learning
Other requirements
Additional requirements are placed on the student.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1. The history of Unix and its development, Linux and concept formation; distribude Linux version, the meaning of folder in the root directory.
2. The work on the command line and scripting language programming in BASH.
3. The implementation of Linux, lilo, grub and grub2, boot RAM disk utilization, system initialization, INIT startup process, starting services.
4. Filesystems used in Linux, the basic features, creating the file system and work with the disk.
5. Management of user accounts and user rights, creating and deleting users, PAM modules.
6. Management services offered by the operating system, start in a particular runlevel, stopping and starting services.
7. Basic network services, LAMP server, DHCP server, NFS and other.
8. Linux as an active element of the network, routing, NAT, Firewall.
9. Use of Linux in embeded devices and small home routers, distribution designed for small devices (OpenWRT, TTYLinux).
10. Good habits Linux server administrator, logging, service status, automate system management activities, surveillance systems.
Exercises:
1. Introduction with VirtualBox and install the OS on a virtualized PC.
2. The creation of single-line scripting language Bash.
3. The creation of programs in scripting language Bash.
4. Creating startup scripts.
5. Work with software RAID.
6. The creation and manipulation of user accounts, disk a quota.
7. Creating the script forming a system firewall.
8. The formation of DEB package installation, software installation using the packaging system.
9. Installation and configuration of some services offered by the Linux operating system.
10. Final test.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction