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UNIX System Administration Handbook (Bk\CD ROM) (2nd Edition)

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This is the rare book that will be as useful to you in five years as it is now. The authors clearly speak from hard-won experience - if you take their advice you'll be able to avoid many pitfalls with hardware, software, and policy. Much more informative than Aeleen Frisch's _Essential Unix System Administration_, even though it takes up less space on your bookshelf and doesn't have a cute animal on the cover! (Frisch's book is good, mind, but this is a classic.) Don't be put off by the price - I know most bundled CDs are worthless, but this one is indispensible. Finally, author Evi Nemeth is a babe, and her picture should be hung in every machine room.

Well, when i started my unix administration and networking studies i,ve got two books "Unix for programmers and users" and "Unix system administration handbook". First time i opened this book i was scared! Wow! 'It's too heavy for me, better i start with "Unix for programmers ..." Wrong! Learning thousends of commands and shell scripting without understanding how the unix systems works is completly useless! "Unix system administration" handbook gives you almost everything you need to build your own unix administartion baseground! It seems to be hard at the beginning but it's worth your pain! It was much easer for me to keep understading scripting and commands when i read this book! And now working on meny different kinds of unix OS and networks i am still comming back to the source. Why almost, beacause i was missing some deeper chapters about nis or nis+ and tcp/ip networking (i mean routing, subneting adn so on...), but anyway i've got my roots grounded and i keep growing! And now i know what i am looking for!

A MUST for anyone into UNIX. Covers most of the topics I have found needing info for in the last couple of years, and then some. Not only is it a very, very, very well written book, it is also a joy to read. There are times it becomes even funny. It must be a joy to work with these guys (and gal).

A final note: If only it covered more flavours of the beast. UNIX that is :) When I was at a loss nevertheless, I e-mailed the authors seeking for advice. To my surprise, they bothered to reply, promptly and ever graciously.

Steal, beg or borrow, but do get this book.

This book has clearly become the UNIX SA's Bible. Written in easy to understand terminology but still able to cover almost all System Administration tasks with a good deal of detail. This book also bridges the BSD <--> System V gaps by providing examples for both flavors. A good reference for SUN, HP, and SGI Administrators

Arguably, the best tutorial and reference dedicated to Unix Administration. Really helped me, a Unix Junior person, understand sysadmin - related concepts and use them well. I have praise for the authors' ability to do what no many others can, namely, explain, make things clear to others. I have been teaching exact sciences for many years now, and my opinion is that this is a textbook you can learn from.

True, it is not in the low price range, but I believe this to be one of the few computer books worth investing into, because, if you are a professional working in the field, you will undoubtedly use it as a reference, perhaps next to textbooks, such as Kernighan and Ritchie's "C Programming Language" and Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java", for many years to come. Check out the upcoming March 2000 new edition.

I have this book when I just started working and throughout my career as an InternetEngineer-SoftwareEngineer-ProfessionalServicesConsultant..

this book is always by my side... it contains lots of info. that really helps in my work as an application developer...

It will also prove useful to pple starting off as a system administrator...

Presentation is concise and straight to the point. Telling you what needs to be done and for what.

Glancing over my books, I notice that this is my only Unix related book that I ever own and it has served me well all these years and for years to come...

When I first got started hacking away at UNIX-type operating systems, a friend recommended this book to me. I loved it. I devoured it. HOWEVER, I was already a serious computer geek and I also had his help understanding the concepts within this book.

While not the book for beginners, this book has enough interest tidbits to perk almost anyone's interest.

The nice thing about this book is that, even 3 years later, I can still pick a new tidbit here or there from it. I can't wait for the 3rd edition to come out.

I can't think of any other UNIX book that teaches better than the UNIX System Administration Handbook. This book tells you everything about how to administer a UNIX box. The authors do a great job in explaining all the required steps to take care the /?/*/nix box in every aspect that an administrator can imagine. The only thing I can think of to improve in the next edition is to cover security slightly more. Securing a system against outside intruders become quite an issue for administrators at E-commerce site. Otherwise, this books is all the administrators need to run a site.

If you want to know how does the UNIX work - this is the book of choice. It covers all major aspects of UNIX operation and the administrator's involvement in it :-). The books coveres all major UNIX flavours (except Linux) and will be your book of choice in almost any environment. Be careful - the book is not "learn it in 24hours" - it requires some knowledge and experience, so if you are newbie - this will not be your book. Otherwise the book will bring you joy and enlightment, the humor is refreshing. Also I agree with most of the authors' opinions expressed there. Unfortunately the vendors are changing their products faster then the authors can cope but that's what the manuals are used (and paid) for. As a conclusion - for average to top level UNIX administrators I haven't seen a better book ever.

This is the best book of its kind, it is really targeted at people who already are familiar with UNIX and is best for the beginner to intermediate system administrator, but it has a lot of useful stuff that even UNIX "experts" (if there is such a thing) forget.