System Administration for Barbara Di Eugenio's Lab

Piemonte	piemonte.cs.uic.edu	(131.193.40.199)	940 SEO
Monviso	monviso.cs.uic.edu	(131.193.40.187)	940 SEO
Cumiana	cumiana.cs.uic.edu	(131.193.40.190)	938 SEO
Tredenti	tredenti.cs.uic.edu	(131.193.40.200)	938 SEO PC
Torino	torino.cs.uic.edu	(131.193.40.172)	916 SEO (Barbara's office)

Some Notes on Machine Functionality

The Suns all run Solaris 2.7 (also known as Solaris 7 and SunOs 5.7).

Piemonte has an extra disk and tape drive, used for backing up the other Solaris machines.

Monviso has a connected printer that can be accessed by the others, including the PC.

Torino is by-and-large taken care of by Barbara Di Eugenio.

Lab Sun Backup / Restore

• Running and understanding backup scripts
• Examining and extracting from backup tar files
• Tape drive on Piemonte
• Version of gzip for Solaris large files
• Archiving backup files from piemonte to tape

Lab File and Printer Sharing Arrangements

• Resources shared among the Suns and PC
• Details of nfs (unix-style) file sharing and printing among the Suns
• Details of Samba (PC-style) file sharing and printing between monvsio and tredenti
• Chaotic ownership of shared files

Lab Computer Security

• Where to find security alerts and patches
• What are the Solaris log files
• Managing inetd - network demons that run on demand
• Managing init - demons that run at bootup
• Managing tcpwrappers - selectively disabling and tracking net communication
• SSH two kinds (yes) and telnet (no)
• Installing Solaris patches and updates
• Installing Windows updates
• Assorted Windows security software, including anti-virus

Everyday Administration

• Adding Solaris user accounts
• Checking disk space on Solaris
• Installing Solaris packaged software
• Useful Unix Command
• Time of day (network time protocol) on Solaris
• The path: what it looks like, how to change its defaults
• Shell login scripts 

Special Administration

• Menaging mailing lists

Notes on Solaris installed material

• Software
• Corpora

Sources of Information

• Sun/Solaris Answerbook on monviso.
• Solaris documentation page from Sun, (more useful than answerbook, but might not match our version.)
• A Solaris FAQ from Casper Dik
• Sun managers mailing list archives and associated Solaris FAQ from John DiMarco

Last Revised: 24 May 2003
Riccardo Serafin