Mastering Tools, Taming Daemons: UNIX for the Wizard Apprentice...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 350 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall PTR
• Edition: 1st Edition April 5, 1995
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0132280167
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0132280167
• Book Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Book Description
This book is for you if you can create directories, edit files, write a simple shell script, write a C program, or if you use UNIX and no longer get lost making your way through the system. The book's broad and concise coverage of the UNIX system includes: utilities, administration, software development, networking, and internal operation. The book will help you solve many problems in: writing shell scripts that solve data manipulation tasks; how to connect your UNIX workstation to a network; how to use UNIX utilities to find "lost" files; create user accounts; manage a network computer with NFS, NIS, and DNS; debug and monitor a network; efficiently develop software on UNIX systems; write a graphical program for the X Window System; and secure and monitor your UNIX system. Intended readers include programmers, system administrators, and hobbyists (particularly those trying to run Linux on their home computers).

Back Cover Copy
This book is for you if you can create directories, edit files, write a simple shell script, write a C program, or if you use UNIX and no longer get lost making your way through the system. The book's broad and concise coverage of the UNIX system includes: utilities, administration, software development, networking, and internal operation. The book will help you solve many problems in: writing shell scripts that solve data manipulation tasks; how to connect your UNIX workstation to a network; how to use UNIX utilities to find "lost" files; create user accounts; manage a network computer with NFS, NIS, and DNS; debug and monitor a network; efficiently develop software on UNIX systems; write a graphical program for the X Window System; and secure and monitor your UNIX system. Intended readers include programmers, system administrators, and hobbyists (particularly those trying to run Linux on their home computers).