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HP-UX 10.X System Administration "How To" Book

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There is no doubt that Marty is one of the most renowned experts in the world of HPUX...so for me, this book was VERY disappointing considering it's price. If you want all the information in this book plus more information, then buy the HPUX System Administration Handbook & Toolkit also by Marty P. You'll get nearly 300 more pages of text (which covers almost all of what is in the "How to" book) plus free software and other goodies. I bought both the handbook & toolkit as well as the "how to" book. If I had it to do over again, I would have just bought the Handbook and Toolkit.

This book is well written for an introductory book on HP-UX 10.x, but in no way is it close to being a 'How - To' book. It would be more appropriately called 'A Broad Overview.'

This book left much to be desired. It lacked detail, words were misspelled, left out, or not the correct word for the application. The book was incomplete.

I deal with UNIX daily, from AIX to HPUX to IRIX. Each UNIX flavor is different, and having a book specifically focused on your UNIX platform is helpful. Using O'Reilly's UNIX In A Nutshell is good, but you'll get more out of this book.

HP ships "HP-UX System Administration Tasks" with each machine or copy of the OS. It is a FAR better book than Marty's. This is a weak introduction to sysadmin at best, and has been done better by many others. (Nemeth et al. for instance)

Don't waste your money.

I was able to use this book right along side installation instructions from a vendors instructions, and get detailed, exact explanations for the tasks I was doing. It was perfect for me and cleared up a lot of questions I had. Great, book without all the technical confusion.