Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 1176 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Edition: 3rd Edition August 15, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596003439
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596003432
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.1 x 1.8 inches
- Weighs: 3.3 pounds
Product Description
"Essential System Administration,"3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. "Essential System Administration "provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the real-world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily.
The new edition of this indispensable reference has been fully updated for all the latest operating systems. Even more importantly, it has been extensively revised and expanded to consider the current system administrative topics that administrators need most. "Essential System Administration,"3rd Edition covers: DHCP, USB devices, the latest automation tools, SNMP and network management, LDAP, PAM, and recent security tools and techniques.
"Essential System Administration" is comprehensive. But what has made this book the guide system administrators turn to over and over again is not just the sheer volume of valuable information it provides, but the clear, useful way the information is presented. It discusses the underlying higher-level concepts, but it also provides the details of the procedures needed to carry them out. It is not organized around the features of the Unix operating system, but around the various facets of a system administrator's job. It describes all the usual administrative tools that Unix provides, but it also shows how to use them intelligently and efficiently.
Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a greater shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, "Essential SystemAdministration" is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible.
Book Info
Addresses real world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces daily, including ways to perform systems backup, methods of testing changes before letting them loose, and why it's important to stick to policies once they're set. Softcover. Previous edition c1995.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Essential System Administration (Paperback)
This book has been recommended for beginners. That is true. You don't have to wade through a bunch of theory to get to the meat of administration. The same is true for experienced administrators. This book will point you in the direction to go when you are using the real manuals. Take some time and slowdown to try some of the examples. Then when you need them you will have already mastered that section. I have several other books now and know a lot of what is in this one. However I would feel naked if this was not reachable. A complementary book would be Practical Unix and Internet Security ISBN: 1565921488
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