This book has grown out of a one semester course in Network and System Administration which has now run successfully for four years at Oslo College, Norway. The course is an introductory course and involves about 30% theory and 70% practical work [29]- It assumes knowledge equivalent to a typical college course on Operating Systems as well as some basic computer skills. The purpose of the book is to provide a mixture of theory and practice for acourse in system administration; to extract those principles and ideas of system administration which do not change on a day-to-day basis; and to present them in a defensible manner [159] to a willing audience.

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