1.1 Assignments and Lab work this weekIndex

Reminder: There are now two quizzes that you need to complete on Blackboard as part of your term Quiz mark. A third quiz will be posted before the Final Exam.

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

• Read All The Words, Do, and then Submit via Blackboard:
  • Bonus (optional) Assignment #04 HTML – the VIM text editor (extended due date again and again and again)
  • Assignment #08 HTML – CentOS virtual server installation
  • Bonus (optional) Assignment #09 HTML – Midterm #2 corrections
    • There is a checking program available to check your file format for this bonus assignment, but only people who Read All These Words will know about it. Wrong format means no marks.
  • Assignment #10 HTML – setting permissions, mode, umask
  • Assignment #11 HTML – tar, processes, syslog, crontab, at, mail
  • Assignment #12 HTML – CentOS: User and Group management (Megadeth)
  • Assignment #13 HTML – CentOS: Partitions, File Systems, single user, run levels, services
  • Really do Read All The Words. You don’t get a second chance to get it right.
  • Work on the above assignments in your lab period; ask questions.
• Worksheet #08 ODT – Linux file system permissions (modes)
  • This Worksheet is a prerequisite for Assignment #10 HTML
  • Worksheet #08 PDF – PDF version
  • Worksheet #08 HTML – HTML version
  • chmod, ls -lid, umask

1.2 Tests and quizzesIndex

For full marks, read the Test Instructions (all the words) before your final exam.

Attend a free workshop on Preparing for Exams - Test Taking Skills and Test Anxiety April 7 or April 14.

1. All Quizzes are open until the Final Exam, then they are closed.
   • Quizzes are random samples and thus do not cover all of the questions in the practice test PDF file. Do the PDF file to be fully prepared.
2. Final Exam: 180 minutes; Tuesday April 21 11am to 2pm in room C144
   • Take a bathroom break before you sit down for three hours!
   • A third set of practice questions is posted. See Practice Tests and Answers. The third quiz, based on this set of questions, will be out soon.
   • The final exam emphasizes material after the second midterm test, but it covers the whole course and therefore includes material from all the practice question sets.

4.1 EFF documents PANIC in Security ExpertsIndex

• April 1: https://www.eff.org/effector/28/04
  • MITRE has announced the PANIC vulnerability, a critical security flaw which affects the server administrators and software developers underpinning almost every interaction we have with the Internet.

4.2 GitHub is Under Continuous Cyber Attack from ChinaIndex

• http://fossbytes.com/why-github-is-under-continuous-cyber-attack-from-china/
  • The collaborative project development website is facing a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack.

4.3 Canadian Jobs at FiberneticsIndex

• https://members.cloudatcost.com/index.php?fuse=admin&view=Announcements&ann_id=66
  • Cloud at Cost is the fastest growing cloud provider and has openings for 10 support staff to work ether local or remote.
  • Essential skills: Understanding of popular versions of Linux, Windows and TCP/IP networking.

4.4 Learning the MaterialIndex

• You learn the material because you want to be a Computer Systems Technician.
  • You like doing this work; you want to be good at it.
• Review your mistakes on the midterm tests because questions re-appear.
• For practice tests and quizzes, see the Practice Test README
• Review the commands used in each lab worksheet (and their common options).
  • Unix/Linux Command List
• Review how the shell works: GLOB, redirection, quotes
  • Know why the shell behaves that way. Copy/paste teaches you nothing.
  • process quotes, split on semicolons and pipes next, then do redirection
• What are the Four Rules for Output Redirection? Three Rules for Pipes?
  • Unix Shell I/O Redirection (including Pipes)

4.5 Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital AgeIndex

• Best-selling author and technology visionary Douglas Rushoff offers his insights and perspectives on humanity’s role in the bright new future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imV3pPIUy1k

4.6 Locked out of the Course Linux ServerIndex

Another second-term student locks himself out:

Mar 28 15:59:58 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:00:07 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:00:21 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:00:30 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:00:51 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:01:09 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:01:57 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:02:08 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:02:55 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:03:06 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:03:24 Failed password for xxxxnnnn from 99.240.181.65
Mar 28 16:05:36 refused connect from cpe0c473da2de41-cm0c473da2de40.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (99.240.181.65)

4.7 Attacks on the Course Linux ServerIndex

• Count the attacks: fgrep -c "refused connect" /var/log/auth.log
• Another way to count the lines (less efficient): fgrep "refused connect" /var/log/auth.log | wc
• Only show the last 10 lines: fgrep 'refused connect' /var/log/auth.log | tail
• See the current list of evil host IPs: less /etc/hosts.evil

Read All The Words by Alex and Colin

Take Notes in Class