UNIX Part 2 for OS X (Mac) Outline

Day 1

Housekeeping

• Instructor: Dave Schroeder, Division of Information Technology.
• Class format: lecture that follows (part of) the book, questions, try things anytime, and some hands-on exercises, breaks. Feedback welcome.
• Why are you taking this course? What is your role: End user? SysAdmin? Curious? What do you want out of the course? What do you already know?

Brief Summary of UNIX on Mac OS X

• What version of UNIX is included, what it's based on, some history, and Apple's goals
• A graphical and command line tool for every taste
  • Many tasks can be accomplished mutliple ways via the graphical interface, or via command line
  • Command line very useful for remote applications

Filesystem Overview, Ch 9 (p 246)

• Filesystems (p 246)
  • HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended), UFS (Universal File System)
• File forks (p 247-248)
  • Resource forks and UNIX
• Filesystem organization (p 248-260)
  • "Domains" and search order
• Permissions
  • chmod, chown, Finder Get Info, BatChmod

System Administration Overview, Ch 11 (p 277)

• Acting as root (p 277-278)
  • What is "root"?
• Enabling root user
• What is "sudo"?
• Using sudo
• Monitoring and controlling processes (p 457-461)
  • ps, top, kill
  • ProcessViewer
• Managing users and groups (p 279-283)
  • Nonhuman users
  • System Preferences Accounts pane, NetInfo Manager, SharePoints, command line utilities
• Networking and network administration (p 209-219, 283-287)
  • System Preferences Network pane
  • /var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml
  • ping, nslookup, netstat, traceroute
  • Network Utility
• Logs
  • Purpose of logs
  • /var/log, /Library/Logs, /Library/Receipts
• Single-user mode and console mode (p 297-298)
  • When and how to use
  • fsck -y
  • >console
• Scheduling tasks (p 298-299)
  • cron
  • CronniX

NetInfo and Directory Services, Ch 12 (p 300)

• Directory Access (p 301-303)
  • Open Directory
  • Directory Services
• NetInfo concepts (p 303-307)
• NetInfo user interfaces (p 307-313)
  • NetInfo Manager
  • ni* utilities: nidump, niload, niutil
    • Create a new user via the command line
    • Create a new group via the command line
  • System Preferences
• Exploring common directories (p 313-314)

Day 2

Running Network Services and Remote Access, Ch 13 (p 316)

• Running services on Mac OS X (p 316-318)
  • AFP, SMB, httpd, ssh, ftp
  • Basic security
    • Firewall (ipfw)
  • /etc/hostconfig
• Startup Items (p 323-325)
  • Login Items
  • StartupItems
• Remote access via the command line (p 322)
  • ssh, telnet, ftp (and secure substitutes; scp, sftp)
• Graphical remote access (p 323)
  • File sharing services (AFP, SMB)
  • Apple Remote Desktop
  • Microsoft Remote Desktop
  • vnc
    • Server (OSXvnc)
    • Client (Chicken of the VNC)

Printing, Ch 8 (p 230)

• Printing on Mac OS X (p 230-237)
  • CUPS
  • Print Center
  • AppleTalk, TCP/IP, Rendezvous
• Alternate printing interfaces (p 239-242)
  • CUPS (http://127.0.0.1:631)
  • Command line tools: lpr, lpadmin, lpoptions, etc
• Printer Sharing (p 242-244)
• System Preferences Sharing pane
• /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
• Saving as PDF (p 244-245)

Installing UNIX Software, Ch 24 (p 533)

• Mac OS X Developer Tools
  • http://connect.apple.com/
  • /Applications/Installers
• Package Managers (p 533-536)
  • fink
  • DarwinPorts
• Using UNIX software and tools
• Installing software remotely
  • fink list
  • fink install
  • dselect

Running the X Window System, Ch 23 (p 526)

• Briefly: What is the X Window System? (p 526)
• Installing the X Window System, Apple X11
• Other desktop and window managers
  • Gnome (screenshots)
  • KDE (screenshots)
• Installing X11 software
• Connecting to other X Window Systems
  • ssh -X

Miscellaneous

• Other handy tools
  • http://apple.doit.wisc.edu/files/hotpicks/
• Other resources
  • http://www.macosxhints.com/
  • http://www.osxfaq.com/
  • http://apple.doit.wisc.edu/macosx/
  • http://apple.doit.wisc.edu/news/seminars/