Introduction to System Administration. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisites: IT 120 or CS 356 . This course will introduce the tasks and techniques required to perform as a system administrator of Linux systems. Topics to be covered include booting, process control, the file system, managing users and resources, backups, configuration management, networking, the network file system, email servers, security, hardware devices, interoperability, and daemons. Whenever possible, lectures will be augmented with hands-on exercises.