[Suns-at-Home] Recommend book on Solaris Administration..

[Lewis, Benjamin (Ben)]

>What is a really good book to have for someone who is a Unix user but
would like to really learn Unix administration?

Hello Mike

The best book I have found which describes the tasks of UNIX
administration is the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Evi
Nemeth, Gareth Snyder, Scoot Seebass, Trent Hein ISBN 0-13-020601-6.

I am something of a second hand book nerd and have the first, second and
third editions (I think the fourth is now out). Since our office
scrapped it's library (to save cost!) I've become the unofficial
librarian and many of my colleagues drop by to look at this book when
they get stuck.

I say "describes the task of UNIX administration" as it describes very
well how, why and when you may want to perform a particular task. It
also covers the office politics and business impact of UNIX sys admin.

For detailed listings of all commands and parameters you should look at
complimenting it with something like "UNIX in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly.
Although this has now been superseded to some extent by Google it's
always wise to have a physical book with you if you are on a customer
site. I was once doing an installation in Saudi Arabia and we got a
tricky Oracle error. I said to the customer admin, "Let's put the code
into Google and see what comes up", he replied "Whats Google?". True
story, their internet access was so restricted they had never seen
Google.

Best regards

Ben

Ben Lewis
Lucent Worldwide Services
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