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<strong>Unix</strong> Administration<br />
fi<br />
done<br />
echo $status<br />
Compression<br />
tar cf dirname.tar dirname; compress dirname.tar<br />
(tar cf- dirname ) | compress > dirname.tar.Z<br />
tar xvi dirname.tar uncompress dirname.tar<br />
cat dirname.tar.Z | uncompress | tar xvfzcat<br />
dirname.tar.Z | tar tf -<br />
Networks<br />
NFS or RFS Network File System or o<strong>the</strong>r TCP/IP Services<br />
TCP Transmission Control Protocol Transport - data packaging<br />
IP Internet Protocol Network Layer - routing<br />
E<strong>the</strong>rnet Link Layer - E<strong>the</strong>rnet Address<br />
Physical Hardware<br />
Distributed Filesystems<br />
NFS and RFS provide facilities for distributed filesystems. This means that users can have a host on <strong>the</strong>ir desk but<br />
still access shared disks<br />
Backups and software updates can be more reliably administered in one place.<br />
Super User permissions do NOT work across remote mounted filesystems - prevents broke security propagating<br />
over <strong>the</strong> network.<br />
Electronic Mail (E-mail)<br />
Mail is spooled in a queue area and <strong>the</strong>n if necessary sent to o<strong>the</strong>r hosts. Communications <strong>with</strong> <strong>the</strong>se hosts may be<br />
ei<strong>the</strong>r immediate (for close neighbors) or until some regular time specified in /etc/crontab.<br />
To: fred@water.fit.qut.edu.au<br />
Subject: I need help ...<br />
<br />
sendmail.cf - is <strong>the</strong> configuration file for BSD<br />
elm & pine - are agents that create and queue requests in /usr/mail or /usr/spool/mail<br />
News - (available via VAX/VMS locally)<br />
- Keep up to date <strong>with</strong> industry as it happens<br />
- Ask your problem to THE experts world wide<br />
- Heaps of free software<br />
- Public domain <strong>Unix</strong> news readers: "tin"<br />
Network Domains<br />
Used throughout <strong>the</strong> Internet:<br />
fred@water.fit.qut.edu.au<br />
Australian domain<br />
Education sub-domain<br />
QUT sub-domain<br />
Faculty sub-domain<br />
Host "water"<br />
User name<br />
Domains & sub-domains are used to prevent naming conflicts <strong>with</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r domains. So we can invent our own host<br />
names <strong>with</strong>out worrying about host names at o<strong>the</strong>r sites.<br />
Things to Remember<br />
Don't be superuser more than necessary. Always re-read what you type when using commands like:<br />
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