Updated: 2013-11-29 02:04 EST

1 Readings, Assignments, Labs, and ToDoIndexup to index

1.1 Assignments this weekIndexup to index

Check the due date for each assignment and put a reminder in your agenda, calendar, and digital assistant.

1.2 Lab work this weekIndexup to index

2 Final Exam – Wednesday December 11 15h30 (3:30pm to 6:30pm)Indexup to index

4 From the Classroom Whiteboard/ChalkboardIndexup to index

Subject: Important Message from CoursEval
The 2013 Fall surveys have been opened for almost a week now and the response rate is very low. Could you please encourage your students to take a few minutes and complete their assessments. The information you receive could be very useful to you. The survey will be open until Friday, Dec. 6th at midnight.
Course Assessment Administrator

5 Real Sysadmin WorkIndexup to index

5.1 Don’t create World-Writable FilesIndexup to index

Finding things that are not symbolic links that have other write permissions:

find dir ! -type l -perm /o+w -ls

(You have one assignment that requires you to create world-writable files.)

5.2 Multiple Remote Login SessionsIndexup to index

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!

5.3 City of Munich dumps Microsoft for LinuxIndexup to index

If you are only doing a migration because you think it saves you money there’s always somebody who tells you afterwards that you didn’t calculate it properly. That was the experience of a lot of open source-based projects that have failed. They were only cost-driven and when the organisation got more money or somebody else said ‘The costs are wrong’ then the main reason for doing it had broken away. That was never the main goal within the City of Munich. Our main goal was to become independent.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-munich-rejected-steve-ballmer-and-kicked-microsoft-out-of-the-city/

Free software was ruled the better choice by Munich’s ruling body, principally because it would free the council from dependence on any one vendor and future-proof the council’s technology stack via open protocols, interfaces and data formats.

The project finished within budget in October 2013, with more than 14,800 staff migrated to using Linux and more than 15,000 to OpenOffice.

5.4 Awesome License PlateIndexup to index

fsck – File System Check

fsck – File System Check

5.5 Linux/Unix JobsIndexup to index

http://careers.insidehighered.com/university-chicago/system-administrator-linux/jobs/531953

5.6 Take Notes In Class!Indexup to index

Take Notes in Class

Take Notes in Class

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