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  • Series: The Expert's Voice
  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 14, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590592123
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590592120
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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From the creator of the popular open source projects AutoRpm and LogWatch comes a thorough and entertaining book. -- Slashdot.org

About the Author

Kirk Bauer has been involved in computer programming since 1985. He has been using and administering UNIX systems since 1994. Although his personal favorite UNIX variant is Linux, he has administered and developed on everything from FreeBSD to Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. He is the author of various open source solutions, such as Logwatch. Kirk has been involved with software development and system/network administration since his first year at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has done work for the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and DHL. In 2000, Kirk was one of the founders and the chief technology officer of TogetherWeb, which was purchased in 2003 by Proficient Systems. Kirk is now a systems engineer with F5 Networks.

Kirk graduated from Georgia Tech in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and is pursued his master's in business administration at Arizona State University. He lives in Peoria, Arizona with his two dogs, and his lovely wife, Rachel.

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Examples shown in early chapters are incorporated into more complex systems one step at a time.
Nick Downey
Automating UNIX and Linux Administration (AULA) is a genuinely *outstanding* UNIX/Linux system-administration book!
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This is definitely a book that will be on my "ready reference" shelf for a long time to come.
D. Golden

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful By D. Golden on September 26, 2003
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Hot off the presses: I just received this book from Amazon yesterday. So far I've only read the introduction and the chapter on ssh and skimmed through the rest and it's fantastic! I'm not sure how much new stuff I expected when I ordered it, but it's already exceeding my expectations. I'm already finding out things I didn't never realized about ssh, and the side commentary on different ways of using ssh within scripts to administer across multiple machines is just sublime.
The author looks way beyond just slapping together some scripts to automate routine tasks, and presents some professional and robust approaches for automation, covering single machine administration, multiple machine and cluster administration, push/pull approaches, automation script propagation, automation dependencies, automated error state identification and correction, installation configuration, automating backup and recovery, and security. (Lots of discussion on security throughout -- it's clearly written for the real world.) Throughout, the author demonstrates nuances to each of these problems that show real thoughtfulness and mastery and teaches how to approach these issues equally thoughtfully and professionally yourself, rather than just offering a cookbook of scripts on different topics.
It's got me thinking about all the routine crud I do in totally new ways already. I already know I need to go back and re-read it slower to process it (and in front of a keyboard to try stuff out). This is definitely a book that will be on my "ready reference" shelf for a long time to come.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful By Nick Downey on October 6, 2003
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If you are disciple in the church of Wall, or like me you believe that laziness is the father of invention, or if you simply have more than a couple *nix machine to administer, Kirk Bauer's new book Automating Unix and Linux Administration is definitely for you. From the creator of the popular open source projects AutoRpm and LogWatch comes a thorough - and believe it or not entertaining - look at how one can leverage the power of a few common tools to significantly reduce the time and effort system administrators spend doing their jobs.
From the outset Bauer takes a straightforward and principled approach to problem analysis. Usually starting with anecdotal example scenarios (many of which will have you saying "been there before") and progressing through ideals, goals and consequences, he examines many of the common issues facing system administrators with candor and realism. Almost nowhere in the book does the author assume an authoritarian stance, he questions his own decision making process and encourages the reader to come up with exceptions to his rules. Fundamentally Bauer has one goal - to develop a comprehensive system for reliably automating the tedious but important tasks that all system administrators face on a recurring basis.
Admittedly, it would be a fallacy for any book to claim complete and comprehensive coverage of all things related to system administration and Bauer does no such thing. When the author touches on topics that obviously require more depth than a single chapter can afford, he is certain to include at least one reference (and in many instances more) to alternate publications without bias to any particular publisher or author. Having said that, the book's scope and depth of topic coverage is impressive.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful By Ugo on April 13, 2005
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Most of the book is about Cfengine, so if you're only looking at automating tasks on 1-3 servers, you may end up using only 1/3 of the book. But I must say the content is relevant and well written.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful By Anthony Lawrence VINE VOICE on December 12, 2004
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I see that most of the reviewers didn't like this as much as I did. That may be because they are home users or have small networks - I think this is very useful for the admins of larger systems (though it may not be useful for VERY large systems).

Or it may be that the subject matter is too dry. Sure, this can be a boring subject, but isn't that the point? System administration is often boring, and particularly so if you haven't automated it. Making global changes isn't exciting, but it is something some of us have to do now and then.

I'm surprised that it averages two stars - I think it is better than that. When I first get a technical book, I flip to a few random pages - I'm looking to see if I find things I didn't already know and if things are well explained. I found a LOT of things I was not previously aware of and I thought the coverage was thorough.

I agree that it has a strong Linux slant, but I don't see that as a problem - most of what this book suggests could be translated to any system.
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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful By Amazon Customer on May 16, 2004
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If what you want is a bok that's a cross platform as the title suggests, this might not be a book worth buying. Examples in this book make horrible assumptions, along the lines of removing all native commands and replacing them with GNU commands. In a Linux only environment, this may not be a problem. In many other environments where enterprise level support isn't a concern, this may also be acceptable. But the place where automation is needed the most is the larget enterprise production environments. While ideas and basic tennets outlined in this book are what you ultimately need, the scope of the examples have problems scaling beyond 20-100 systems, let alone 5,000+. As for the basic tennets, you can cheat and be reminded what they are: common configurations, keep good documentation as to the differences, and manage systems, in a secure manner, in a common fashion that relies on the common configuration and documented differences.
The errors and ommissions in this book should be easily caught by any technical senior administrator of the OSes in question. For me, that's Solaris and Linux.
For a Linux only environment, it is a solid book. The writing style is drier than most of the manuals I read from various Unix/Linux vendors, and truly is the first tech publication since I supported PBX systems to put me to sleep.
As for the "subjective" analysis of various tools to assist in automation, I was highly disappointed. On various occasions, only 2 or 3 tools were discussed in an attempt to make the assesments fair. In each case, I came up with twice as many tools that I use on a regular basis, that were also F/OSS (as was usually the criteria the author used to talk about a product) that perform similar, if not identical, tasks much better.
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