Solaris 8 Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition is the perfect hands-on tutorial and quick reference for experienced Solaris 8 system administration. World-renowned Solaris expert Janice Winsor provides indispensable tips, advice, and quick-reference tables for these essential aspects of system administration: mail services, NIS+, Automounter services, the Service Access Facility, software installation and removal, shell programming, system security, and volume management. Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest Solaris 8 features, this book targets the tasks experienced system administrators find most challenging. Winsor begins by introducing Solaris mail services: their components and behavior, and how to plan and customize sendmail. Next, she introduces the NIS+ nameservice environment, showing how to configure both NIS+ Servers and Clients. The book includes a completely new chapter on WebNFS: how it works, and how to configure and utilize it. You'll learn how to set up new Service Access Facility services for terminals, modems, and printers; how to administer and patch software; and much more. The book also includes in-depth coverage of security, including Authentication, the Automated Security Enhancement Tool (ASET), and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), which allows administrators to assign partial superuser privileges to users as needed.
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A follow up to the Solaris System Administrator's Guide, this book assumes the reader has knowledge of basic, day-to-day functions of the Solaris operating environment. Useful as both a hands-on tutorial and quick reference, this book details how to perform increasingly complex system improvement, revision, and customization. Covers the tasks most crucial to advanced administration. The book is divided into several sections for easy reference, each section addressing a major service or task, including: Mail Services, NIS+ naming service, Automounter Services, Service Access Facility to set up access to printers, modems, and terminals, application software installation and sharing, shell programming to automate routine tasks, and system security.
The officially authorized guide for advanced Solaris system administration, written by an award-winning, recognized expert
Completely updated to cover Solaris 2.6 topics, including: x86 differences, patch administration, redesign of print packages, whole new sections on security and the Sun Web Server, and more
Task-oriented and easy to reference, this classic tutorial provides indispensable tips, advice, and quick-reference tables to help the more experienced Solaris administrator add system components, improve service access, and automate routine tasks --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The widely used reference for experienced system administrators of the Solaris Operating Environment—now fully updated for the Solaris 8 platform.
- Focuses on the tasks experienced sysadmins find most challenging
- Completely updated for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment!
- Includes extensive new coverage of WebNFS technology
Ready to leverage the full power of Solaris 8 software? Now there's a hands-on reference specifically for you. In Solaris 8 Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition, award-winning author Janice Winsor delivers hundreds of indispensible tips, step-by-step procedures, and quick reference tables, all focused on the features experienced administrators find most challenging. Thoroughly updated, this book's coverage includes:
- The Solaris platform mail services, including detailed procedures for planning and customizing sendmail
- Understanding the NIS+ nameservice environment, and configuring both servers and clients
- All-new coverage of WebNFS technology—concepts, configuration, and day-to-day management
- Advanced security coverage—authentication, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and the Automated Security Enhancement Tool (ASET)
- New Service Access Facility services for terminals, modems, and printers
- Software management—installation, removal, patching, and more
- Automounter services, volume management, shell programming, and much more
No matter how well you know Solaris, this book will make you far more effective—just as it has for thousands of Solaris sysadmins worldwide.
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A don't learn Solaris book.,
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This review is from: Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I can't see how a book like this gets published, but there is no other Solaris book so many people are stuck with it. Examples are lame and only touches the surface. Sun Educational Services has excellent books that you get with the course (about $1500/5 days) that's better. Why don't they publish that instead?
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I'd give this zero stars, if I could.,
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This review is from: Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I could entertain the notion that the author really doesn't know much about the subject at hand. The omissions and lack of detail are stunning. Imagine the author dumping the man pages and other Solaris documentation into wordprocessor files and arranging them into imagined "Administrator Guides" and you have an idea of what might have happened.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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The book needs work,
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This review is from: Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I bought both Solaris books because I couldn't find anything else on Solaris. To my disappointment, I found countless typos and no in-depth info whatsoever. Sometimes I wonder if the author knows the subject herself... Now, if you're looking for a great book on system administration, check out UNIX Sys Admin handbook by Evi Nemeth and friends... It's slightly overpriced, but worth the money! I hope J. Winsor continues to improve on both Solaris guides, because both of them definitely need to be beefed up. I was hoping Sun would read the books before putting their logo on them.
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