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

[Sheldon T. Hall]

> Lewis, Benjamin (Ben) said, inter alia ...
> Mike said ...
> > What is a really good book to have for someone who is a Unix user but
> > would like to really learn Unix administration?
> 
> 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 strongly second this nomination.  The first ("Red Book") edition , since
it contains much wit as well as much wisdom, makes great leisure reading,
too.

The various editions of this book parallel, and apply most strongly to,
various versions of the operating systems it covers.

Avoid the Janice Winsor books from Sun.  They're neither as well-written nor
as informative as the Nemeth book, and, worse still, contain subtle and
destructive typographical errors in some of the example commands.

> For detailed listings of all commands and parameters you 
> should look at complimenting it with something like 
> "UNIX in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly.

Yea, verily.

If you only get those two, you'll be able to manage pretty well.  If you
have more room, and more funds, O'Reilly's "UNIX Power tools" is well worth
having, too.

-Shel