Linux Working program of the academic discipline (Syllabus)

Details of the academic discipline

Program of educational discipline

Description of the educational discipline, its purpose, subject of study and learning outcomes

Description of the discipline. When completing this discipline, students will get acquainted with the system structure, system configuration, command line and its use for working with standard threads, text editors, file management, directories, access rights, users and groups, processes, operation logging, Shell language, scripts, planning and task schedulers in Linux, managing Linux packages, managing hardware in Linux, designing, mounting file systems, configuring network parameters in Linux, configuring the graphical environment. The course provides quality control of the acquired knowledge in the form of modular tests. Express surveys on the material covered will be held at the lectures. The subject of the academic discipline: Linux operating systems, system structure, command line, standard streams stdin, stdout, stderr, text editors, file system, files, directories, access rights, users and groups, processes, operation logs, scripts, task schedulers, Linux packages hardware, network, graphic environment. Interdisciplinary connections. The Linux discipline is based on the following disciplines: Operating systems, Computer networks. The Linux discipline is the basis for the discipline: Information Technology Infrastructure. The purpose of the educational discipline. Training of highly qualified specialists who will have knowledge of the principles of Linux operating systems and apply knowledge in the administration and configuration of Linux operating systems, have skills in the interaction of the Linux OS with hardware, and also be able to configure and apply the Linux operating system to solve certain tasks.

The main tasks of the academic discipline

Knowledge:

• basic concepts about Unix, Unix-like system, Linux;
• system structure, features of Linux systems, Linux kernel;
• Linux command line tools;
• standard Linux threads;
• regular expressions
• file globbing
• file system structures;
• access rights to files and directories;
• about hard and symbolic links;
• about users, groups;
• processes in Linux;
• transaction logging;
• Shell languages;
• task planning tools in Linux;
• Linux libraries;
• on hardware management in Linux;
• on media management in Linux;
• on configuring network parameters in Linux;
• on configuring the graphical environment in Linux.

Skills:

• install Linux operating systems.
• work in the system using the Linux command line;
• manage data from standard Linux threads;
• use a regular expression
• apply file globbing
• configure the file system depending on the needs of the application;
• manage access rights to files and directories;
• work with hard and symbolic links;
• administer users, groups;
• manage processes in Linux;
• configure transaction logs;
• write scripts in the Shell language;
• plan automatic execution of tasks in Linux;
• use Linux libraries;
• configure the operating system to work with hardware in Linux;
• configure work with media in Linux, restore lost data;
• configure network parameters in Linux;
• configure the graphical environment in Linux.

Pre-requisites and post-requisites of the discipline (place in the structural and logical scheme of training according to the relevant educational program)

Prerequisites: be able to use a computer, have basic knowledge of operating systems, networks.

Post-requisites: administration, configuration of the Linux OS.

After completing the discipline, students will be able to use the acquired knowledge to effectively use the capabilities of the Linux OS to solve certain tasks.

Content of the academic discipline

Full time

Lecture classes

Topic 1. Unix, Unix-like system, Linux, system structure

Topic 2. Bash, standard threads

Topic 3. Files, directories, access rights

Topic 4. Users, groups

Topic 5. Processes

Topic 6. Shell language

Topic 7. Task scheduler in Linux

Topic 8. Linux package management. Management of libraries. Logging operations in Linux

Topic 9. Management of hardware, media in Linux

Topic 10. Maintaining the integrity of the file system

Topic 11. Configuring network parameters in Linux

Topic 12. Configuring the graphics system in Linux

Laboratory classes

1. Installation, configuration of Linux system Ubuntu

2. Interpreter. Interpreter commands. Environment variables (environments)

3. Standard Linux threads

4. File system structure. Ubuntu directory/file management

5. Manage access rights to Linux files and directories

6. User identification. Umask in Linux. Hard and symbolic links

7. Process management

8. Data processing using the shell language. Scripts in Linux. Task scheduler in Linux

Part time

Lecture classes

Topic 1. Unix, Unix-like system, Linux, system structure, Bash

Topic 2. Files, directories, access rights

Topic 3. Shell language.

Laboratory classes

1. Installation, configuration of Linux system Ubuntu. Interpreter. Interpreter commands.

2. File system structure. Ubuntu directory/file management. User identification. Manage access rights to Linux files and directories

3. Data processing using the shell language. Scripts in Linux. Task scheduler in Linux

Educational materials and resources

Basic literature

1. Khmelyuk M.S. Lectures on the discipline "Linux"

2. Khmelyuk M.S. Methodical instructions for performing laboratory work for students in the discipline "Linux"

3. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Modern operating systems, 4th edition, 2021.

4. https://uabuntu.com/

5. William Shotts. The Linux Command Line

   Auxiliary:

6. Michael Hausenblas. Learning Modern Linux: A Handbook for the Cloud Native Practitioner. 1st Ed. O'Reilly Media, 2022

Educational content

Methods of mastering an educational discipline (educational component)

Full time

Lecture classes

Laboratory classes

Part time

Lecture classes

Laboratory classes

Independent work of a student/graduate student

Full time

Part time

Policy and control

Policy of academic discipline (educational component)

The system of requirements for the student:

• attending lectures and laboratory classes is a mandatory component of studying the material;
• the teacher uses his own presentation material at the lecture; uses Telegram to teach the material of the current lecture, additional resources, laboratory work, etc.; the teacher opens access to a certain Google Drive directory for downloading electronic laboratory reports;
• during lectures, it is forbidden to distract the teacher from teaching the material, all questions, clarifications, etc. students ask at the end of the lecture in the time allotted for this;
• laboratory works are defended in two stages - the first stage: demonstration of work results; the second stage is protection of laboratory work. Points for laboratory work are taken into account only if there is an electronic report;
• modular test papers are written during lectures (tests in Moodle);
• incentive points are awarded for: active participation in lectures. The number of encouraged points is more than 10;
• penalty points are issued for: untimely submission of laboratory work. The number of penalty points is more than 10.

Types of control and rating system for evaluating learning outcomes (RS)

The student's rating in the discipline consists of the points he receives for:

1. execution and protection of 8 laboratory works;

2. execution of 2 one-hour modular control works (MCW);

3. incentive and penalty points.

   System of rating points and evaluation criteria

   Laboratory works:

   "excellent", a complete answer to the questions during the defense (at least 90% of the required information) and a properly prepared protocol for laboratory work - 9 points;

   "good", a sufficiently complete answer to the questions during the defense (at least 75% of the required information) and a properly prepared protocol for laboratory work - 7.5 points;

   "satisfactory", incomplete answer to the questions during the defense (at least 60% of the required information), minor errors and a properly prepared protocol for laboratory work - 6 points;

   "unsatisfactory", an unsatisfactory answer and/or an improperly prepared protocol for laboratory work - 0 points.

   For late submission of laboratory work before the deadline, the grade is reduced by 1 point (but not lower than 1 point for each laboratory work).

   Modular control works:

   "excellent", complete answer (at least 90% of the required information) - 14 points;

   "good", a sufficiently complete answer (at least 75% of the required information), or a complete answer with minor errors - 10 points;

   "satisfactory", incomplete answer (but not less than 60% of the required information) and minor errors - 6 points;

   "unsatisfactory", an unsatisfactory answer requires mandatory rewriting at the end of the semester - 0 points.

   Incentive points

   0.5 points for active creative work at lectures.

   Intersessional certification

   According to the results of educational work for the first 7 weeks, the maximum possible number of points is 27 points. At the first certification (8th week), the student receives "credited" if his current rating is at least 18 points.

   According to the results of 13 weeks of training, the maximum possible number of points is 82 points. At the second certification (14th week), the student receives "credited" if his current rating is not less than 57 points.

   The maximum sum of weighted points of control measures during the semester is:

   R=8* rlab +2* rMCW =8*9+2*14=100

   where rlab is a score for laboratory work (0...9);

   rMCW – score for writing MCW (0...14);

   Test:

   Students who do not have arrears from laboratory work, have completed two MCW with a rating of no less than "satisfactory", receive a passing grade (credit) by the so-called "automatic" in accordance with the scored rating (table 1)

   Table 1. Conversion of rating points to grades on the university scale

Additional information on the discipline (educational component)

• the list of theoretical questions submitted for semester control is given in Appendix 1;

Working program of the academic discipline (Syllabus): Made . Senior lecturer Maryna Khmeliuk Approved by the Department of IST (protocol No. 16 dated 12.06.2024) Agreed Methodical commission of the faculty¹(protocol No. 10 dated 21 06.2024)

Appendix 1

List of questions for assessment

1. Unix, a Unix-like system. Linux
2. Core and main components of the OS
3. Purpose and functions of Linux, application of Linux
4. Shell
5. Environment
6. Shell command line
7. Bash commands
8. Work in the command line
9. Processing text streams using filters
10. STDOUT standard output stream
11. The STDERR standard error stream
12. Stream Redirection (Redirection Symbols)
13. Utilities for working with streams (xargs, tee)
14. Regular expressions
15. Search with grep
16. Editing files (text editors)
17. File and directory management
18. Search commands
19. File archiving
20. Archivers
21. File compression
22. File-globbing - substitution of file names in Bash
23. Access rights in Linux
24. SetUserID(SUID)
25. SetGroupID(GUID)
26. sticky bit
27. Access Control Lists (ACLs).
28. Umask
29. Hard links
30. Symbolic links (Symlinks, Softlinks).
31. Utility for working with symbolic links update-alternatives
32. Users
33. User identification
34. Groups
35. Passwords
36. Accounts
37. Process. View running processes. View information about processes
38. Searching for processes in Linux
39. Changing the priority of the process
40. Completion of processes
41. Shell language commands
42. Scripts (scenarios) in Linux
43. Task scheduling in Linux
44. Sron. Crontab
45. Anacron
46. At. Batch
47. Linux package management (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hot).
48. Management of libraries.
49. Logging operations in Linux.
50. Rotation of logs (logs)
51. Log archiving
52. HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)
53. Dbus
54. UDEV is a device manager
55. DevfS, Sysfs, ProcfS - Virtual file systems
56. Connecting devices
57. BIOS
58. Management of kernel modules
59. Hard disk management in Linux
60. MBR partition table
61. GTP partition table
62. LVM volume management system
63. Creation of partitions and file systems
64. File system integrity
65. File systems ext2, ext3, ext4
66. The role of Inode in Linux file systems
67. Mounting and unmounting of file systems.
68. fsck - a tool for checking and restoring the integrity of the file system
69. Additional utilities for working with FS: dumpe2fs, debugfs, tune2fs
70. Network protocols UDP, TCP, ICMP
71. IP address
72. TCP/IP ports
73. Address mask (subnet)
74. CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing)
75. Utilities for working with the network
76. Configuring network parameters in Linux
77. Basic approaches to solving network problems
78. DNS client settings
79. X11 graphical environment (X11 Windows System)
80. Xorg, Gnome, Kde