Introductory course on Unix sysadminning (includes notes, slides, homework, and labs)

I don't know if this is a good thing but on the 2nd slide of the first lecture it says the grading is P/NP (pass and no pass), for a minute I was trying to figure out why algorithmic complexity has anything to do with grading.

One of the most important things about being an admin (that being my nominal career) is the human factor, and this is addressed in only a couple of books.

As a sysadmin, you are responsible for keeping the show going for a big pile of people, and so you need to make sure that you are visible to those people; that you are more than just a name tagged to an email regarding an outage.

I made it a habit of introducing myself to new users, and of taking a few minutes every day to walk around in a different area of the company, just to see how things were going. On a couple of occasions, this helped me identify a problem before it got big enough to tip off the monitoring software.

In an interesting side note, this class is taught by the Berkeley open computing facility (OCF) that Hans Reiser co-founded.