1 Readings, Assignments, Labs, and ToDoIndex

• Fill in your Course Evaluation Survey for this course. Only nine questions! Closes April 14.
• Read (at least) these things (All The Words):
  • Week 13 Notes HTML - this file - ** Read All The Words **
  • Unix/Linux Boot Process, GRUB, Run Levels, services, telinit, chkconfig
  • Unix/Linux Software Package Management: yum, rpm, and tar
  • Data Mining
  • List of Commands
• From “Unix for Mac OS X Users” at lynda.com - more to come
• Read (All The Words), Do, and save (not for hand in)
  • Fedora 12 Installation in VMware: Lab Worksheet #07 PDF
    • Installing and Configuring VMware Tools for Fedora 12
    • CST8207 Frequently Asked Questions
    • Have your instructor check you off on the installation using the five points on the last page of the worksheet.
  • Lab Worksheet #11 PDF - user and group management
  • Lab Worksheet #12 PDF - Disks, Partitions, and File Systems
  • Lab Worksheet #13 PDF - Boot Process and GRUB
• Read (All The Words), Do, and then Submit via Blackboard:
  • optional BONUS Midterm#2 assignment: Assignment #09 HTML (optional)
  • Assignment #11 HTML - user and group management (Megadeth Project)
    • New Due Date Monday April 8
  • Assignment #12 HTML - Disks, Partitions, and File Systems
  • Assignment #13 HTML - Boot Process, GRUB, Run Levels, telinit, chkconfig
• Write down the dates of your Final Exams from the Course Home Page.

2 Final Exam – April 24 1:30pm in C144Index

• Your Final Exam schedule is posted in the ICT office. The Final Exam is closed-book, no aids, no devices.

• Your Final Exam covers the entire course, with emphasis on material since the second midterm test, and on material that students did not answer well in the previous two tests.

• You must read the Test Instructions before the test for important directions on how to enter your answers and the test version number on the mark-sense forms.

• There may be more questions on the test than you can answer in the time allowed; answer the ones you know, first.

• Practice tests are available for the Final Exam.
  • Read the Practice Test README Information.
  • See the Practice Tests and answer files.
  • The same questions are posted under Practice on Blackboard.

3 From the Class Notes link on the Course Home PageIndex

• Course Home Page
• Previous Week
• All Weeks

• Review last week. Did you do everything assigned last week?

• Unix/Linux Command Reference

4 From the Classroom Whiteboard/ChalkboardIndex

• Your in-class notes go here.

• The department strongly recommends that all assignments be complete before exam week starts on Saturday, but I will accept Assignment #13 HTML up to the new due date.

• Do you get a black screen with no text when going to Run Level 3?
  • See the new instructions in Assignment 13, 4.4, 5B.

• Read Course Evaluations

5 Some CommandsIndex

Keep a notebook with a List of Commands in it.

6 Some Review QuestionsIndex

1. Is a tar archive a compressed archive of individual files, or is it an archive of individually compressed files?
2. Why is the f option critical to the use of tar? (What happens without it?)

7 Real Sysadmin WorkIndex

You are now logging in to multiple machines. Set your shell PS1 prompt to include the machine name, so that you don’t type the wrong command on the wrong machine!

And please stop typing sudo on the CLS.

8 Sysadmin ComicsIndex

• Randall Munroe xkcd.com
• Bill Amend Math, Science, and Unix Underpants