INLS 183: Distributed Systems and Analysis

Class Notes

This page contains links to online class notes. Generally, these are HTML pages. If you decide to print the pages (which Prof. Newby discourages, make sure you specify black text on a white background. Better yet, use lynx to generate plain-text versions of the pages.

• December 3: games; ssh & wu-ftpd security problems; Unix for the present and future; working with hardware and software choices for Unix and Linux systems. Keeping informed. Installation directories on blue
• November 26 backups, XML, chatting... A little installation and a script on blue
• November 19 software notes on Ruby; installation directory and script on blue
• November 12 software notes on Ruby; installation directory and script on blue.
• October 29 overview on Ruby; installation directory and script on blue
• Overview of today; notes on security on Ruby. Installation directory and various subdirectories on blue
• Installation directory on blue (no online notes, otherwise).
• October 8. Sendmail and email user agents, solving compilation problems, X windows. On blue, the script file and installation directory. Here's an FTP link to the same directory on blue.
• October 1. FTPd, xinetd and tcp_wrappers, and RPM. On blue, the script file and installation directory for wu-ftpd.
• September 24. Tips on shells, scripting, startup, sudo, logs and other topics. httpd installation. xinetd. On blue: the script file.
• September 17. Software development processes. wget sample installation. Here's the script file
• September 10: Systems installation instructions. You can also see the group assignment listings
• August 27: Class welcome, Unix/Linux overview; gawk installation. Here's the script file