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The following sections describe a 36-hour lecture schedule in 12 lessons,
2 per week, of 3 hours each. The lectures are interactive, following
the text closely, but sometimes giving straightforward chapters
as homework.
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A.1 Hardware Requirements</A>
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The course requires that students have a L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> system to
use for their homework assignments. For past courses, most people were
willing to repartition their home machines, buy a new hard drive, or use a
machine of their employer.
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The classroom itself should have 4 to 10 places. It is imperative that
students have their own machine, since the course is
<I>highly</I> interactive. The lecturer need not have a machine. I
myself prefer to write everything on a whiteboard. The machines
should be networked with Ethernet and configured so that machines
can telnet to each other's IPs. A <I>full</I> L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> installation is
preferred--everything covered by the lectures must be installed.
This would include all services, several desktops, and <B>C</B> and
kernel development packages.
<P>
L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> CDs should also be available for those who need to set up
their home computers.
<P>
<I>Most notably, each student should have his own copy of this text.</I>
<P>
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A.2 Student Selection</A>
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This lecture layout is designed for seasoned administrators of MS-DOS or
Windows systems, those who at least have some kind of programming
background, or those who, at the very least, are experienced in assembling
hardware and installing operating systems. At the other end of the
scale, ``end users'' with no knowledge of command-line
interfaces, programming, hardware assembly, or networking, would
require a far less intensive lecture schedule and would certainly not
cope with the abstraction of a shell interface.
<P>
Of course, people of high intelligence can cover this material
quite quickly, regardless of their IT experience, and it is smoothest
when the class is at the same level. The most controversial method
would be to simply place a tape measure around the cranium (since
the latest data puts the correlation between IQ and brain size at about
0.4).
<P>
A less intensive lecture schedule would probably cover about half of
the material, with more personalized tuition, and having more in-class
assignments.
<P>
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A.3 Lecture Style</A>
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Lessons are three hours each. In my own course, these were in the
evenings from 6 to 9, with two 10 minute breaks on the hour.
It is important that there are a few days between each lecture
for students to internalize the concepts and practice them by
themselves.
<P>
The course is completely interactive, following a ``type this now
class...'' genre. The text is replete with examples, so these should be
followed in sequence. In some cases, repetitive examples are
skipped. Examples are written on the whiteboard, perhaps with slight
changes for variety. Long examples are not written out: ``Now class,
type in the example on page...''.
<P>
The motto of the lecture style is: <I>keep 'em typing</I>.
<P>
Occasional diversions from the lecturer's own experiences are always
fun when the class gets weary.
<P>
The lecturer will also be aware that students get stuck occasionally. I
check their screens from time to time, typing in the odd
command for them, to speed the class along.
<P>
<H1><A NAME="SECTION004840000000000000000">
Lesson 1</A>
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A background to U<SMALL>NIX</SMALL> and L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> history is explained, crediting the
various responsible persons and organizations. The various
copyrights are explained, with emphasis on the GPL.
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Chapter <A HREF="node7.html#chap:basiccmd">4</A> then occupies the remainder
of the first three hours.
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<B>Homework:</B> Appendix <A HREF="node51.html#chap:corpfaq">D</A> and <A HREF="node52.html#chap:gpl">E</A> to be
read. Students to install their own L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> distributions. Chapter
<A HREF="node9.html#chap:edittextfiles">6</A> should be covered to learn basic operations
with <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">vi</FONT></TT>.
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Lesson 2</A>
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Chapter <A HREF="node8.html#chap:regexp">5</A> (Regular Expressions) occupies the first
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remaining time. Lecturers should doubly emphasize to the class the
importance of properly understanding regular expressions, as well as
their wide use in U<SMALL>NIX</SMALL>.
<P>
<B>Homework:</B> Research different desktop configurations
and end-user applications. Students should become familiar with the
different desktops and major applications that they offer.
<P>
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Lesson 3</A>
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First hour covers Chapter <A HREF="node11.html#chap:streams">8</A>. Second hour covers
Chapters <A HREF="node12.html#chap:processenviron">9</A> and <A HREF="node13.html#chap:mailclient">10</A>.
Third hour covers Chapter <A HREF="node14.html#chap:useraccounts">11</A>.
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<B>Homework:</B> Research L<SMALL>INUX</SMALL> on the Internet. All
resources mentioned in Chapters <A HREF="node19.html#chap:alldoc">16</A> and
<A HREF="node16.html#chap:linuxresources">13</A> should be accessed.
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Lesson 4</A>
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First two hours cover Chapters <A HREF="node15.html#chap:netservices">12</A>,
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so these experiments are given for homework. Chapter
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report back with any problems.
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asking questions about any unclear points.
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<B>Homework:</B> Optionally, Chapters <A HREF="node26.html#chap:sharedlib">23</A>, then
rereading of Chapter <A HREF="node28.html#chap:introtoip">25</A> and <A HREF="node29.html#chap:tcpudp">26</A>.
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Lesson 6</A>
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Lectured coverage of Chapter <A HREF="node28.html#chap:introtoip">25</A> and Chapter
<A HREF="node29.html#chap:tcpudp">26</A>. Also demonstrate an attempt to sniff the
password of a <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">telnet</FONT></TT> session with <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">tcpdump</FONT></TT>. Then the
same attempt with <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">ssh</FONT></TT>.
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<B>Homework:</B> Read Chapter <A HREF="node30.html#chap:dnsclient">27</A>
through Chapter <A HREF="node32.html#chap:xinetd">29</A> in preparation for next
lesson.
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Chapters <A HREF="node30.html#chap:dnsclient">27</A> through <A HREF="node32.html#chap:xinetd">29</A> covered in first
and second hour. A DNS server should be up for students to use.
Last hour explains how Internet mail works, in theory only, as well as
the structure of the <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">exim</FONT></TT> configuration file.
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<B>Homework:</B> Read through Chapter <A HREF="node33.html#chap:eximsendmail">30</A>
in preparation for next lesson.
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Lesson 8</A>
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First and second hours cover Chapter <A HREF="node33.html#chap:eximsendmail">30</A>.
Students to configure their own mail server. A DNS server should be
present to test <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">MX</FONT></TT> records for their domain.
Last hour covers Chapters <A HREF="node34.html#chap:lilo">31</A> and <A HREF="node35.html#chap:bootup">32</A>, excluding anything about
modems.
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<B>Homework:</B> Experiment with Chapter <A HREF="node36.html#chap:sendingfaxes">33</A>.
Chapter <A HREF="node37.html#chap:uucp">34</A> not covered. Chapter <A HREF="node38.html#chap:linuxfilestand">35</A>
to be studied in detail. Students to set up a web server from Chapter
<A HREF="node39.html#chap:apache">36</A> and report back with problems. Apache itself is not
covered in lectures.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION0048120000000000000000">
Lesson 9</A>
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First hour covers Chapter <A HREF="node40.html#chap:crond">37</A>. Second and third hours
cover Chapter <A HREF="node43.html#chap:name">40</A>. Students to configure their own name
servers with forward and reverse
lookups. Note that Samba is not
covered if there are no Windows machines or
printers to properly demonstrate it. An alternative would be to set up
printing and file-sharing using <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">smbmount</FONT></TT>.
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<B>Homework:</B> Chapter <A HREF="node44.html#chap:pppdialup">41</A> for
homework--students to configure dialup network for themselves. Read through
Chapter <A HREF="node45.html#chap:kernelsource">42</A> in preparation for next lesson.
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Lesson 10</A>
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First and second hours cover Chapter <A HREF="node45.html#chap:kernelsource">42</A>.
Students to at least configure their own network card if no other
hardware devices are available. Build a kernel with some customizations.
Third hour covers the <B>X</B> Window System in theory and use
of the <TT>
<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">DISPLAY</FONT></TT> environment variable to display applications
to each other's <B>X</B> servers.
<P>
<B>Homework:</B> Study Chapter <A HREF="node31.html#chap:nfs">28</A>.
<P>
<H1><A NAME="SECTION0048140000000000000000">
Lesson 11</A>
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First hour covers configuring of NFS, noting the need for a
name server with forward and reverse lookups. Second and
third hours cover Chapter <A HREF="node41.html#chap:postgres">38</A>.
<P>
<B>Homework:</B> Download and read the Python tutorial.
View the weeks security reports online. Study Chapter <A HREF="node47.html#chap:security">44</A>.
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Lesson 12</A>
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First and second hours cover the security chapter and an
introduction to the Python programming language.
Last hour comprises the course evaluation.
The final lesson could possibly hold an examination if a
certification is offered for this particular course.
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