Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp [Paperback]

David Rhodes (Author), Dominic Butler (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130342874 | ISBN-13: 978-0130342874 | Publication Date: September 21, 2002 | Edition: 1

You have the man pages: what you need are answers! Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp puts the answers right at your fingertips. Drawing on nearly 30 years of sys admin experience, David Rhodes and Dominic Butler cover every facet of Solaris OE system administration, from simple user management on standalone servers to building and managing a fully networked enterprise environment. They explain every task in detail, with sample commands, specific output, lists of affected system files, and in some cases, complete shell scripts. Coverage includes filesystems, kernels, packages, shells, Internet/DNS, email, PPP, NIS, backup/restore, security, and much more.

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From the Back Cover

Complete solutions for every Solaris OE sysadmin.

• Step-by-step solutions for every key Solaris OE system administration task
• From basic user administration to complex enterprise networking
• Filesystems, kernels, shells, Internet/DNS, email, PPP, NIS, backup/restore, and much more
• Extensive examples, sample output, and shell scripts
• Includes coverage of Solaris 8 and 9 Operating Environments

You already have the man pages: what you need are the answers! With Solaris OE Boot Camp, the answers are right at your fingertips. Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience with Sun Microsystems hardware and software, David Rhodes and Dominic Butler walk you through every facet of Solaris OE system administration, from simple user management on standalone servers to building and managing a fully networked enterprise environment. Rhodes and Butler explain every task in detail-with sample commands, specific output, lists of impacted system files, and in some cases, complete shell scripts. Coverage includes:

• User Administration
• Permissions & Security
• Networking
• Filesystems, including NFS, DFS & Autofs
• Serial & SCSI Connections
• Internet & DNS
• Disk Quotas
• Shells
• Email Configuration & Management
• Backup/Restore
• System Boot/Halt
• PPP Remote Connections
• Kernels & Patches
• Naming Services & NIS
• Package Administration
• Time, Date, & NTP
• And much more...

Whether you've been running the Solaris Operating Environment for a week or a decade, Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp will help you do more, do it faster, and do it better!

About the Author

DAVID RHODES is an independent UNIX professional with broad experience throughout the IT industry, including system builds, program development, support and maintenance. He has worked with the Solaris Operating Environment and Sun Microsystems hardware for more than 13 years, with products ranging from Sun 3/50s and SunOS 3.5 to Sun Enterprise 10000 (Star Fire) servers and Solaris 9 OE.

DOMINIC BUTLER is a freelance technology consultant specializing in Solaris OE and UNIX-related projects. Working with IBM's e-business delivery development team, he helped develop and manage processes for building, updating, and recovering e-business servers within IBM's Universal Server Farm environment throughout the UK, Holland, and Nordic countries.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (September 21, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130342874
• ISBN-13: 978-0130342874
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #604,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Solaris

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ONLY Solaris SA's Book Worth Having On Your Desk, January 23, 2006

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B. Rockwood "www.cuddletech.com" (Menlo Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp (Paperback)

There are lots of Solaris books on the market, most of which are horrible. This book is the only book that I've seen that covers the OS very completely in a very small page count. Subjects like RBAC, NIS, NFS, ACL's, and other topics that are typically confusing and lengthy reads are presented in this book in only a few short paragraphs but with absolute clarity. Other books talk about something, this book teaches you how it works and how to do it without all the pointless chatter.

Everything presented in this book applies to Solaris 10 as well, it simply lacks coverage of the wide range of new features such as SMF, Zones, DTrace, etc. But don't let that stop you from buying this book!

While the book might seem like a beginners only book, I find it invaluable as a Sr SA. Its extremely embarousing when someone asks you to do something with Solaris that you haven't done for a long time. A common example is working with Sendmail on Solaris... if you spend a lot of time using Postfix or other mail systems it can be a real pain to remember where Sun puts things and how to interact with the stock Sendmail in Solaris. This book has saved me from reading piles of man pages and pulling out full length O'Rielly books to simply remember some simple topic that I just haven't dealt with in a while.

Beginner or Expert, this the best Solaris book to have at arms reach. Period.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable guide for day-to-day task of Solaris SysAdmin, December 22, 2002

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"danilody" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp (Paperback)

This book is carefully written by explaining and giving you examples on how to use the tools mostly used by Solaris System Administrators in their day-to-day administration of Solaris OE.

This book doesn't tackles installation but rather giving you the answer on how to successfully administer Solaris OE. This book address the chapters which is considered missing in most Solaris Administration book. What I like most in this book which is missing in the other books are Booting and Halting the system, Shells, Swap Space, Local Area Network and more.

With this book, who needs man pages?

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good book for Solaris, May 5, 2003

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Generoso Lombardi (Avellino, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp (Paperback)

If you know already a system unix-like this book it is perfect in order to understand Solaris. Clearly, simple and precise in the examples. Don't choose this book if you are new to systems unix-like.