Far too often system administrators expend all of their time and energy in endless fire fighting. Often the networks and systems they manage become a fragile quilt of temporary patches and workarounds. Sys admins need a firm background in requirement analysis, prioritization and capacity planning in order to proactively meet the ever-growing needs of their users. Today's overworked sysadmins are looking for any way to keep their networks running smoothly and then try to achieve enhanced performance. Linux System Administration guides the reader in the many intricacies of maintaining a secure, stable system. In this definitive work, the authors address all the issues related to system administration from adding users and managing files permission to internet services and Web hosting to recovery planning and security. Linux System Administration fulfills the need for expert advice that will ensure a trouble-free Linux environment.
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Far too often system administrators expend all of their time and energy in endless fire fighting. Often the networks and systems they manage become a fragile quilt of temporary patches and workarounds. Sys admins need a firm background in requirement analysis, prioritization and capacity planning in order to proactively meet the ever-growing needs of their users. Today's overworked sysadmins are looking for any way to keep their networks running smoothly and then try to achieve enhanced performance. Linux System Administration guides the reader in the many intricacies of maintaining a secure, stable system. In this definitive work, the authors address all the issues related to system administration from adding users and managing files permission to internet services and Web hosting to recovery planning and security. Linux System Administration fulfills the need for expert advice that will ensure a trouble-free Linux environment.
About the Author
M Carling consults at the intersection of system administration and investment bacnking, having merged system administration projects for large banks in New York, London, Tokyo, Toronto, and Zurich. He runs Linux on Intel, Macintosh, and SPARC hardware.
Stephen Degler has been administering UNIX systems for major financial firms for the past eight years. He currently manages system administration for the FAST (Financial Analytics and Structured Transactions) group at Bear Steans. He runs Linux on Alpha, Intel, and SPARC hardware.
Jim Dennis holds the position of Senior Reseacher at Linuxcare. He writes the "Answer Guy" column for the Linux Gazette, and he has performed system administration for Fortune 100 corporations. He runs Linux on Alpha, Intel and Macintosh hardware.
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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great sysadmin book for Linux and Unix,
By Kevin Blackwell (krblack@club-internet.fr) (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Linux System Administration (The Landmark Series) (Paperback)
Linux System Administration showed me how what we had been doing was wrong. Since configuring our systems as suggested in the book, our network has run without a hitch.This book was hard to put down. It is an easy to read yet technical explanation of how to do system administration. It is not a rehash of man pages, but rather an explanation of how to solve real-world problems and where to look for more detailed technical information.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not for technical people,
This review is from: Linux System Administration (The Landmark Series) (Paperback)
This book is not for technical people who are eager to learn Linux. It justs give brief information on Linux, something you may have already read a thousand time in the introductions of Linux documents. It is definitely not in depth enough to teach you how to administrate a Linux server.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
More managerial than Technical,
This review is from: Linux System Administration (The Landmark Series) (Paperback)
After read this book book, I found many managerial strategy that we need to apply on administering system (Not just LINUX). I got many idea on administering system from this book and applied it (also for NT). I think this book is good for someone who want to do system administrator job. For more technical information you still need to read Linux Howto and other references.
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