Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 768 pages
- Published by: CRC
- Edition: 1st Edition May 29, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0849313511
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0849313516
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Book Dimensions:
10.1 x 7 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 2.9 pounds
Product Review
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It is written for serious Unix administrators that need a comprehensive Unix resource. The book is well organized into four sections: UNIX Administration, Network Administration, Supplemental Unix Topics, and Case Studies… for admins who want a single, first-rate reference guide to Unix, UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems & Network Management
will fit the bill quite well. —Ben Rothke, CISSP, Senior Security Consultant, in
Unix Review Promo Copy-Ben Rothke, CISSP, Senior Security Consultant, in Unix Review
It is written for serious Unix administrators that need a comprehensive Unix resource. The book is well organized into four sections: UNIX Administration, Network Administration, Supplemental Unix Topics, and Case Studies… for admins who want a single, first-rate reference guide to Unix, UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems & Network Management will fit the bill quite well.
Promo Copy
Product Description
To configure and maintain an operating system is serious business. With UNIX and its wide variety of "flavors," it can be especially difficult and frustrating, and networking with UNIX adds still more challenges.
UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems & Network Management is a one-stop handbook for the administration and maintenance of UNIX systems and networks. With an outstanding balance of concepts and practical matters, it covers the entire range of administrative tasks, from the most basic to the advanced, from system startup and shutdown to network security and kernel reconfiguration. While focusing on the primary UNIX platforms, the author discusses all of the most common UNIX “flavors,” including Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX and SGI IRIX. Three chapters of case studies offer a practical look at UNIX implementation issues: UNIX installation, disk space upgrade, and several emergency situations that every administrator mustexpect to face at some point.
Diverse yet detailed, filled with examples and specific procedures, this is the one book that both the novice and the seasoned professional need to learn UNIX administration and effectively perform their daily system and network-related duties.
Reader ReviewsOne of the goals of Unix was to be a universal operating system. While Unix has achieved a level of ubiquitousness unparalleled in information systems, the fact remains that with hundreds of different flavors of Unix, getting a handle on the operating system is no easy feat. UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems & Network Management attempts to be a single-source handbook for the administration and maintenance of Unix systems and networks. However, because it is clearly impossible to cover every Unix variant, the book primarily focuses on BSD and System 5. Other flavors covered include Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and IRIX. The author's biography states that he is an electronics engineer by training and a hardware designer and programmer by trade. With that, this book should not be construed as a "For Dummies" book. It is written for serious Unix administrators that need a comprehensive Unix resource. The author's writing style can be a little stiff at times, but the main point is that the content is there. The book is well organized into four sections containing 28 chapters. The four sections are UNIX Administration, Network Administration, Supplemental Unix Topics, and Case Studies. Like many Unix books, Chapter 1 starts out with an overview of the life of Unix - its history, development, and the plethora of legal issues, including the BSD and System 5 legal wrangling. It also covers important issues such as various newsgroups, conferences, and organizations related to Unix. While none of the information in Chapter 1 (or the entire book, for that matter) is new, the main benefit of the book is to have all of that information in a single, hard copy volume. Speaking of content, Chapter 4 provides a good look on how Unix starts up and correspondingly shuts down. This chapter details how a Unix host starts up and includes all of the myriad initializations that must take place, which also explains why, from a forensics perspective, one of the worst things that someone can do to a Unix host that has been hacked is to shut it down or restart a penetrated system. Chapter 13 is another valuable chapter that goes into time-related Unix facilities. One important and often underused capability is that of time synchronization. The book details how to correctly use the NTP (Network Time Protocol) daemon and its corresponding configuration files. Section 2 starts with Chapter 14, which is an overview of network fundamentals, including an overview of the TCP/IP and ISO layer. Other topics covered include DNS, NIS, remote services and commands, and email. Once again, none of this information is new, just contained in a single hardbound volume. Section 4 is that shortest section of the book, and provides the details of installing various flavors of Unix. Sample configuration files are included, which are quite helpful because an errant or mistyped command can suspend an installation. Chapter 28 is one that you hope you will never have to use - Emergency Situations. This chapter discusses such issues as lost boot passwords, partition faults, and other nightmare scenarios. Overall, UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems & Network Management can be utilized as a single Unix reference manual. The only downside to the book is its price... it is rather expensive, especially given that there is an overabundance of similar free material on the Net ... For admins who want a single, first-rate reference guide to Unix, and don't mind spending the money, UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems & Network Management will fit the bill quite well.
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