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

[Michael Norton]

Thanks Sheldon.

These are precisely the 3 books I have on my book shelf.
Red Book -UNIX System Admin...
O"Reilly -UNIX in a NutShell
O'Reilly -UNIX Power Tools.

So I guess I have the info I need.
I will post some admin questions here. Once I start setting up accounts.

thanks to EVERYONE!!!

Mike


On Oct 6, 2006, at 7:30 AM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

>> 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
>
>
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